What is Data Center Optimization? Data center optimization is a multi-layered approach to effectively maximizing your company's technology resources. By designing a comprehensive networking, server and storage environment—as well as an effective power and cooling system for your data center—you can achieve your current IT goals while being flexible enough to manage further growth.

How Will Data Center Optimization Solutions Benefit My Business?

By implementing a comprehensive data center optimization strategy, your business can:

• Reduce utility costs
• Improve utilization and efficiencies of systems
• Consolidate data center real estate needs
• Improve system cooling
• Improve infrastructure agility to meet future demands

How Can I Help My Business Embrace Data Center Optimization Solutions?

When evaluating data center optimization solutions, it's important to ask the following questions:

• How are you currently meeting environmental policy initiatives?
• How many physical servers do you have, and how well are they utilized?
• How many resources are dedicated to data center maintenance and support?
• Could you benefit from utility and space savings?

What Comprises a Data Center Optimization Solution?

An effective data center optimization solution includes one or more of the following components:

• Server Virtualization
  Server virtualization, a component of a data center optimization strategy, is the method of running multiple independent virtual operating systems on a single computer. This allows users to maximize physical resources and take best advantage of their hardware investment.

• Blade Servers
  A blade server is the processing power of a traditional server, housed with other blade servers in a chassis that shares the power, cooling, connectivity and management of each server.

• Data Storage Management
  Data storage management delivers data center optimization by consolidating and centralizing a company's data into more manageable and predictable data stores.

• Power and Cooling Management
  Designing a modular, energy-efficient power and cooling system reduces costs and limits downtime. In a dense server environment, placing your data center's cooling mechanisms near equipment generating the most heat will ensure your systems are running at optimized levels. Also, right-sizing power requirements can help maximize your hardware lifecycle.

Getting Started with Data Center Optimization

Your NDM Account Manager and certified specialists are ready to assist you with every phase of choosing and leveraging the right solution for your IT environment. Our approach includes:

• An initial discovery session to understand your goals, requirements and budget
• An assessment review of your existing environment and definition of project requirements
• Detailed vendor evaluations, recommendations, future design and proof of concept
• Procurement, configuration and deployment of the final solution
• Ongoing product lifecycle support