IBM White Paper Sample

Gone are the days when IT personnel could throw a bunch of cheap servers in a room and call it a data center. In today’s data center, careful planning must be undertaken to validate its ability to provide the necessary energy to servers, to cool them, and to grow over time without running out of room or overtaxing the data center’s energy and thermal envelope. It also requires a dynamic infrastructure—one that’s able to react intelligently and effectively to change, is secure, is cost-efficient, and is Green.

Some long-term market trends continue, such as the ever-increasing need for performance. Meanwhile, new trends are emerging, including a greater concern over security and energy/thermal issues and a growing interest in virtualization. More and more companies are looking to “go green,” not only because it’s good for the planet, but also because it’s good for the bottom line. IBM has been visionary in recognizing these trends early and providing solutions via X-Architecture design to ready your business for the future.