Building, Planning, and Operating the Next-Generation Datacenter

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• IDC Opinion
• In This Insight
• Situation Overview
  • Operating in Real Time: Business Conditions Have a Direct Impact on IT Operations
  • Figure: Business Goals for U.S. Organizations
  • Burgeoning Datacenter Management Costs: A New Economic Model for the Datacenter
  • Figure: Worldwide IT Spending on Servers, Power and Cooling, and Management/Administration
  • Technologies for the Future Datacenter
    • Consolidation of Systems and Datacenters: Less Is More
    • Platform Innovation: Getting More Out of What You Have
    • Figure: Server Virtualization Adoption
    • Implications for the Condensed Datacenter: Power and Cooling
    • Figure: Top Datacenter Challenges
• Future Outlook
  • Design for the Future Datacenter: Modular, Scalable, Predictable
• Essential Guidance
  • Many Options for Customers