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It tells us that it is not the Survival of Strongest as had been declared but moreover, the survival of those who can adapt.  \nNever truer is the IT industry where change is daily with rapidly accelerating technologies challenging everyone who manages any IT department or company, to constantly keep ahead and not as a just a function of their jobs but as a function of their company’s survival. Technology is becoming more agile, smaller, cooler, while also being far more powerful than the technology we used last year or the year before.  \nThese attributes are often glaring in the modern data center where space, cooling and power must be equally balanced to optimize assets. This brings about a need to constantly change, configure, update and evaluate data assets on both the physical level and the digital level. The result being a faster, better and more efficient data room that is far more condensed than ever before.  \nThe trend is not for expansion as much as consolidation. Even in growth companies who are adding more data space, we find that optimization of that space is paramount. Furthermore, IT budgets have been flat or declining for years. Gartner predicts that IT spending will decline by 5.5% in 2015 over 2014. The fact is, IT management is being asked to do more with less since most companies assume that IT cost, as with all technology should go down.  \nWorldwide IT Spending Forecast by Sector (Billions of U.S. Dollars)  \n2014 2014 2015 2015  \nSpending Growth (%) Spending Growth (%)  \nDevices 693 2.4 654 -5.7  \nData Center Systems 142 1.8 136 -3.8  \nEnterprise Software 314 5.7 310 -1.2  \nIT Services 955 1.9 914 -4.3  \nCommunications Services 1,607 0.2 1,492 -7.2  \nOverall IT 3,711 1.6 3,507 -5.5  \nSource: Gartner (June 2015)  \nAt the forefront of this initiative is the U.S. Government that has been tasked to reduce Data Center cost from $3 billion to $1.5 billion by the end of 2015. After nearly 5 years, the Federal Data Center Consolidation initiative is still short and may not hit its target until the end of 2016. Among the objectives of this project is to reduce energy which according to research by NASA  \nin 2007,“Data centers used about 61 billion kWh of electricity in 2006, representing 1.5% of all U.S. electricity consumption and double the amount consumed in 2000. It is projected that data center usage will exceed 100 billion kWh by 2011, or 2.5% of total U.S. electricity consumption.”  \nThe overall goals of the Government-wide Data Center Consolidation Initiative are as follows:  \n􀀗 Consolidate data centers across the Federal Government in order to achieve cost savings, energy consumption reductions, optimal space utilization and improvements in IT asset utilization.  \n􀀗 Use automation, standardization and security ‘hardening’ of Hardware and Software platforms, including virtual hosts and virtual machines to improve upon the implementation and monitoring of NIST 800-53 controls and FISMA compliance.  \n􀀗 Define and monitor standard operational metrics across Agencies, achieve efficiency gains and realize operational cost savings by improving:  \n• Server (CPU) Utilization (%)  \n• Rack Space Utilization (%)  \n• Rack Floor Utilization (%)  \n• Power Usage / Square Foot  \n• Power Usage Efficiency (PUE)  \n􀀗 Maintain cross-agency goals for highly available, scalable, and redundant data center infrastructure that will substantially reduce the Government’s risk and provide for future IT growth.  \nThe same holds true with the private sector while companies seek to reduce cost in a down economy though many are finding that this consolidation can also be driven by a need to increase efficiency that allows for optimal growth.  \nConsolidation, much as ","cbCaii6MqC399nbC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaii6MqC399nbC","pdf",592639,7,"English","# Introduction\n## Consolidation drivers and market pressures\n# Federal data center consolidation objectives\n## Cost, energy, and utilization targets\n## Automation, standardization, and security compliance\n## Operational metrics (CPU, rack, power, PUE)\n# Planning methodology\n## Measure-and-validate approach\n# Phased consolidation plan\n## Phase 1: IT asset inventory baseline\n## Phase 2: Application mapping\n## Phase 3: Analysis and strategic decisions\n## Phase 4: Consolidation design and transition plan","[{\"question\":\"Why is data center consolidation prioritized over expansion?\",\"answer\":\"Consolidation aligns with optimization needs for space, cooling, and power, especially when IT budgets are flat or declining and the industry is pressured to do more with less.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the key government-wide objectives for consolidation?\",\"answer\":\"The initiative targets cost savings, reductions in energy consumption, better space utilization, improved IT asset utilization, and the use of automation and standardization to strengthen security controls and compliance.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the phased consolidation approach include?\",\"answer\":\"It starts with IT asset inventory baselining, followed by application mapping to identify dependencies, then energy and cost evaluation for strategic decisions, and finally consolidation design and a transition plan.\"}]","ServerLIFT - Data Center Consolidation Action Plan | PDF",1789254694]