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Calculating the true cost of lost
capacity in the data centre A new white paper from Future Facilities highlights the potentially crippling financial and commercial penalties for short term thinking and poor lifecycle planning within the data centre.
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ata centre operators could be wasting huge sums of money as their facilities fall far short of their designed capacity, according to a new white paper published by data centre lifecycle planning specialists Future Facilities.
The paper, entitled The Elephant in the Room is Lost Capacity, urges data centre operators to consider more carefully the long-term implications of decisions that are often made purely for short-term expediency. Dr Matt Warner, Product Manager at Future Facilities and the report’s co-author, stresses: “Data centres are a major investment for any business and, as such, are subject to a great deal of careful
planning during their initial design phase. But how many operators can also claim to apply that same methodical approach to managing issues such as technology deployment once a facility is up and running?”
Not many, according to respected Gartner analyst David J. Cappuccio, whose paper Data Center Efficiency and Capacity: A Metric to Calculate Both states that a majority of data centres fail to reach their intended capacity. Future Facilities’ report explains why this happens. Unsurprisingly, the principal culprit is the rapid pace of technological development inherent in the data centre industry.
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www.dcseurope.info I June 2012
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