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■SPONSORED REPORT
The
big
squeeze
IF the Eighties and Nineties belonged to the PC, the these data centres are ageing and are no longer up to
current decade has seen the rise of data centres. These the standard that’s required. Then there is the fact
are large, centralised facilities capable of delivering that storage requirements have been growing so rapidly.
phenomenal computing power to a large number of Finally, many businesses that have grown through
users simultaneously over high-speed networks. acquisition have inherited a number of data centres
Data centres are simply the most efficient, reliable and have not been getting the level of efficiencies they
and secure way to provide computing power to large were hoping for.”
businesses. Rather than operating thousands of These issues have, in combination, caused organisa-
servers on a standalone basis with their own power tions to seek to reduce the size of their data centre foot-
supply, the data centre centralises them in one place. print. A few years ago, it was not uncommon for large
As the computing needs of business have grown and, organisations, particularly those operating in the tech-
in particular, web-based businesses have come of age, nology industry, to have dozens of data centres across
the number and size of data centres has grown expo- the world. In recent times, many large companies have
nentially. As this happens, however, businesses are undertaken consolidation programmes that have
finding them more difficult and more costly to man- brought the number of centres down to single figures.
age, according to Mark McKeon, Technology Solutions “In a situation where everyone’s capital spend and
Group sales director at HP Ireland. budgets are being squeezed, what consolidation allows
“The power generated by these data centres, the the customer to do is reduce spend, cut their manage-
cooling required to keep them within operational ment costs and manage a simpler data centre,” says
acceptance parameters is just phenomenal. Lack of Aidan McHugh, sales manager for HP enterprise sys-
space is another problem, as is the fact that many of tems at Morse Solutions.
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