Rethink the data center infrastructure | IBM

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IBM provides Integrated Service Management solutions such as improved service delivery, cloud infrastructure, rationalization, cost management and designing and scalable and flexible data centers.

Hello, I'm Steve Sams, Vice President of Global Site and Facilities Services for IBM. We help our customers with their data centers; their data center strategy, their data center designs and construction, and data center rationalization....We found that customers are facing enormous challenges in the data center environment today. They're facing issues around the ability to keep up with their exploding IT growth. In essence, over the last ten years our average customer has added 6 times their server capacity and 69 times their storage capacity and they're finding it challenging to keep up. A typical data center lasts 15 to 30 years. How do they keep up with the changes in technology, with the changes in computing models like cloud? So we're really focused on helping customers with these three issues; the ability to keep up with their growth, manage their costs, and be flexible and responsive. In essence we suggest to customers to really focus on three simple things. First is can I extend the life of my existing facilities? Can I make better use of the technology and the data center infrastructure that I already have? In most cases we find that we can double client's current IT capacity with the technology and capability they already have. Second major opportunity is to help them rationalize their data center infrastructure across their organization. In many cases they have multiple data centers, multiple computer rooms, mission critical servers in a variety of locations. And to rationalize that can save significant amounts of money. IBM's own internal rationalization effort saved us $4.1 billion of operational cost over the last five years alone. The third major opportunity is if they do need to build new data centers, to do it in a flexible scalable way where those data centers provide the capacity for what they need today, today, and when they need more capacity in the future that's when it's plug 'n played into the existing environment.

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• ibm
• flexibility
• data center
• scalability
• service management
• rationalization
• risk mitigation
• cost management
• it infrastructure
• service delivery
• ibm smarter planet
• data center design
• legacy systems
• smart data
• cloud infrastructure

[dubyamoney]

Thanks nice words, however I have been to and worked in some of your data centres in the UK - good grief!! it was like going back to 1985 and in more than one way. From IBM to those outsourced companies managing the sites, no one had any idea of the latest or even the not so latest data centre design trends - shocking! What did prospective clients think when visiting site. Not sure what the PUE was - probably >1.9 and ROI of 40 yrs - sorry, don't like to kick someone when there down...