The three pillars of modern data center operations
Photo credit: Jonathan Koomey, taken at Stanford University, October 14, 2015.
Data Center Knowledge published my essay today titled “The three pillars of modern data center operations”. Here the intro:
Modern enterprise data centers are some of the most technically sophisticated business activities on earth. Ironically enough, they are also often bastions of inefficiency, with equipment utilization much below ten percent and 30 percent of the servers in those facilities being comatose (using electricity but performing no useful information services). The operators of these facilities also struggle to keep pace with rapid changes in deployments of computing equipment.
These problems have led to much attention being paid to improving data center management. While almost every enterprise data center has taken steps to improve its operations, virtually all are much less efficient, much more costly, and far less flexible than they could be. Those failings ultimately prevent data centers from delivering maximum business value to the companies that own them.
Well-managed data centers use what I call the three pillars of modern data center operations: tracking, procedures, and physical principles…
…as I discuss in my online class (Modernizing enterprise data centers for fun and profit), which starts again on May 2, 2016.
