Companies today are aware that information is their main asset. The data centers of the organizations concentrate all the necessary resources for the processing of information and its purpose is to have it always available. Currently there are several challenges that must be overcome so that the increase in energy consumption in data centers decreases.2. One of the problems of our new century is that of the high costs of energy and its continuous increase. Analysts say energy currently accounts for 15 to 20 percent of the budget of many of the big data centers, meaning they've become economically relevant to IT and finance people.
Computing resources are beginning to outpace the cost of acquiring assets. In other words, we could have left behind a key tipping point, related to the source of data center expenses. As this happens, the attention of CIOs and data center operators will therefore shift to the issue of energy.
3. The world's energy capacity is stretched to the limit. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories (LBL) have conducted extensive studies on the efficiency and energy consumption of data processing centers. LBL estimated that three percent of total U.S. consumption, including cars, buildings, homes and anything else that consumes energy, derives from data centers.
4. Finally, disaster recovery is understood to be business continuity. Protecting information can avoid many headaches for companies and anticipate real threats, ensuring business continuity, reducing damage and increasing the return on their investments and opportunities, as well as the confidentiality of data and customers.
"Data loss" has been proclaimed as one of the most frequent problems for organizations. According to an MIT's study that indicates that global warming will continue to increase the trend of increasing hurricanes with destructive potential, which will increasingly affect coastal populations during the twenty-first century; these natural disasters coupled with server crashes, viruses and system failures are just some of the situations that can endanger the information systems of companies.
Currently, energy savings are derived from optimizing the capacity utilization of the IT infrastructure, this is achieved by classifying the information in terms of its criticality throughout its entire life cycle, which allows segmenting storage and reducing the instantaneous load of data processing. That's why Sun's Blackbox Project offers customers a look at efficient data center implementations that are beneficial in terms of cost-benefit. It is also the world's first data center, built inside a transport container optimized to deliver maximum efficiencies in energy use, space and performance.
