With the growth of IT as a strategicbusiness function and the shift toindustry standard x86 servers, ITorganizations find themselves facingserver sprawl across theirinfrastructure. Most of these serversare just 10-15% utilized, meaning ITorganizations are investing thousandsin an asset they barely use. IDCestimates that there is a 3-year excesssupply of server capacity in themarket, costing the industry $140billion.Meanwhile, IT organizations need topower, cool, house, and manage allthese servers. With power costsincreasing, IT organizations arespending $0.50 in power and coolingfor every $1 spent on the server itself.This adds up to $29 billion in annualcost industry-wide.Plus, all those servers take space andspace is expensive. At a cost of$40,000 per rack to build a new datacenter, companies should be lookingfor any means possible to avoidexpansions or data center moves.Finally, much of IT time is spent onmaintenance at a cost of 8 times thatof the server itself. IT organizationswould prefer to increase the server-to-admin ratio to reallocate valuabletalent to more strategic initiatives.
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