The datacentre has become central to today's organisation as the engine room
of business-critical operations. But as the enterprise has become addicted to
adding IT capacity, firms are increasingly running into the physical limitations
of their datacentre: space and electrical power are now limiting the ability to
expand. In cash-conscious times, simply building new datacentre is unrealistic
for many – instead IT must find methods for making best use out of existing
facilities.
So what are the strategies for optimising datacentre operations, unlocking
capacity and driving down costs, and ensuring business growth is not hampered by
inadequate IT?
A recent Computing web seminar, in association with Dell and Intel,
examined the best strategies for the modern datacentre. Our panel of experts
discussed the impact of technologies such virtualisation and blade servers and
answered viewers' questions on the big datacentre issues of the day.
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here to watch the whole of the free web seminar (registration required)
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