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Gartner has offered up seven tips to cut costs associated with running a data centre.
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Gartner predicted that virtualisation will yield net savings within 24 hours. Additionally, the effective use of virtualisation can reduce server energy consumption by 82 per cent, and floor space by 86 per cent.
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Application retirement
Businesses can drive significant cost savings through application consolidation and retirement. By shutting down redundant or obsolete legacy applications, the associated infrastructure museums can be switched off and resources redeployed. Historically the challenge of keeping legacy data accessible has stopped such initiatives from getting off the ground but new cloud archive services, such as RainStor http://tinyurl.com/pp42jd, have now removed this barrier.
By Andy_Ben_Dyke on Thursday Jun 18