Improve Efficiency, Monitoring, and Management
Your data center consumes more power than any other IT environment, and the costs of providing power, cooling, and supporting facilities are increasing rapidly. Some analysts predict that in 2009, energy costs will be second only to payroll for many large enterprises.
Cisco provides several energy-efficient solutions for today's data center. For example, virtualization-aware Unified Fabric can increase service density and efficiency for network, servers, and storage. This approach combines the manageability, energy, and space savings of a centralized infrastructure with the flexibility of a locally distributed system, to:
- Establish data center operation efficiency and utilization benchmarks
- Implement power-consumption measurement, monitoring, and management
- Identify underused and low-value infrastructure
- Provide accurate power-efficiency data
These solutions help eliminate the need for duplicate IT infrastructure and parallel storage and compute networks, significantly reducing cabling and switching costs.
Cisco and its partners are working to provide energy-efficient data center solutions and professional services along with design and planning tools. Cisco is also working with The Green Grid to help create industry metrics and standards and collaborative processes for developing more efficient data center operations.
