Weekly White Paper: Curbing Skyrocketing IT Energy Costs
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Switch on a server and you've just doubled its cost. According to Gartner, between 2007 and 2012 most U.S. enterprise datacenters will spend as much on power and cooling as on the hardware itself.
Gartner predicts that energy costs for IT operations could also double by 2012 due to the volume of data that will flow through organizations and the expected increase in utilities.
The answer? Consolidate your servers and optimize them as best as possible.
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