Data centre transformation

The route to business service optimisation

Published September 2014

The survey provides an overview of data centre and server farm usage within today’s enterprise environment, providing insight into both existing practice and future development. It shows that there is still considerable scope for many organisations to improve the operational efficiency of their data centres and server farms, despite the widespread implementation of optimisation projects having already taken place. Further consolidation and virtualisation benefits exist wherever IT departments continue to host and run applications and services on dedicated, physical servers for example, with specific performance intensive workloads yet to be virtualised.