A chart on Emerson's website shows the use of data center capacity
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center equipment provider Emerson Network Power (www.emerson.com) announced on Thursday that it has released new research that finds data center professionals lack the insight required to improve availability, efficiency and manage capacity in the data center.
According to the report, after interviewing 240 US data center professionals from various industries, Emerson found that improvements are being made to data center infrastructure management solutions.
The survey also identified three factors that prevent respondents from optimizing data center performance: lack of visibility into system use, lack of documented efficiency strategies and lack of functional mangement systems.
According to the report, most respondents used management tools like facility monitoring, equipment tracking and cooling management. The least used management tools included tracking virtual machines and their dependencies on hardware and IT capacity management.
In regards to virtualization, only eight percent had not virtualized at least some of their servers. 44 percent expect the number of physical servers in their primary data center to increase over the next three years, while only two percent believe all servers will be virtualized within the next three years.
Almost two thirds of respondents said their data centers use less than 70 percent of their computing capacity and 57 percent plan to add additional servers in the next three years. 20 percent says they plan to add capacity through leasing additional space.
“If you compare managing a data center to flying an airplane, what we are seeing now is that organizations are no longer willing to fly without instruments—as they have done for the past twenty years—but have not quite reached the point of automation,” Blake Carlson, vice president of global IT markets, Avocent business of Emerson Network Power stated. “That is definitely the direction the industry is headed but achieving that objective will require greater integration between IT and infrastructure systems, and between the physical and virtual layers of the data center.”
Emerson provides solutions in areas including infrastructure management, as well as AC and DC power and precision cooling systems, embedded computing and power, integrated racks and enclosures, power switching and controls and connectivity, according to a press release.
Recently, Raritan added new tools to its data center energy management software.
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