IBM Data Centres

Increasingly efficient, high-density computers provide an opportunity to get more value from every square foot of space in your data centre. But powerful blade and "pizza box" servers consume a lot of energy, which grows more expensive every year. And they generate heat, which can cause servers to shut down and limit your ability to add much needed equipment.

The demand for more computing power and electricity, better cooling solutions, and facilities that can grow with an organisation is creating a crisis in data centres around the world. Simply adding more servers and turning up the air conditioning is not feasible. Instead, numerous organisations are planning to cope with this crisis by building new facilities or making significant changes to their existing sites.

They are aiming to optimise their data centres - not only to accommodate more hardware, but also to meet business objectives that include:

Reducing costs
Responding to increasing demand for data centre capacity that helps increase productivity
Enabling continuous technology change to implement new business processes
Improving resiliency and security to help protect data and address corporate and governmental mandates

IBM Data Center Services provide comprehensive services that enable clients to reduce cost, improve efficiency and transform to a "Smarter" Data Center.

Smarter Data Centers:

Are designed to meet existing needs with the flexibility to respond to future unknowns in business requirements, technology and computing models
Leverage cost-effective approaches to optimise assets to improve operational efficiency - including hardware, software, data centres and people and processes
Require active monitoring and management capability to provide the operational insights to meet the required availability, capacity planning and energy efficiency
Implemented end- to- end to achieve desired outcomes and enhanced value

and provides solutions to:

Extend the life of a client's current IT infrastructure to meet increasing demands
Gain greater control of the environment through optimisation and virtualisation, reducing cost and complexity
Builds new scaleable and secure data centres that maximise flexibility for future growth

In addition we can selectively integrate IBM managed services and cloud offerings to drive additional efficiency within the operating environment.