Reducing Data Center TCO Is A Critical Business Objective For Your IT Clients

By Richard Jenkins, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Business Development, RF Code

For the majority of global enterprises, the data center is now the strategic hub of the business. This has led many organizations to re-evaluate facility efficiency, accountability, and cost management. When tasked with reducing capital and operating expenditures, most focus on optimizing cooling and power infrastructure as it is an operational area simple to understand and a management strategy with an immediate impact on a data center’s operating expenditure (OpEx).

While environmental efficiency is certainly important, there are many other cost-saving strategies that can create equally impressive financial outcomes. These include:

• effective resource utilization to maximize existing IT capacity
• asset lifecycle management and change management
• audits and asset-related compliance
• preventing downtime with proactive management

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