How to avoid costs from oversized data center, network room infrastructure
Oct. 15, 2012
"The single largest avoidable cost associated with typical data center and network room infrastructure is oversizing," writes APC-Schneider Electric's Neil Rasmussen.
Oversizing statistics from actual customer installations are presented in the paper's analysis, which quantifies the TCO costs associated with oversizing to be in excess of 30%. The document discusses the fundamental reasons why oversizing occurs, and presents an architecture and method for avoiding the phenomenon.
"The single largest avoidable cost associated with typical data center and network room infrastructure is oversizing," asserts Neil Rasmussen, the document's author. "The utilization of the physical and power infrastructure in a data center or network room is typically around 50-60%."