Analyst: Enterprises Fail to Handle Data Center Costs

CIO.com (Oct 26 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. Businesses are failing to address the problem of assessing the costs of running the data centre making it near impossible to assess costing according to a senior analyst. Data Center Definitions and Solutions It's an issue that all companies have to address, said Nik Simpson, the Burton Group's senior data centre analyst., in a research report Counting the cost of the elephant in the data center (subscription required) that he had written. He said that most managers were suffering from insufficient information about the costs of their IT infrastructure, making it difficult to predict the return on investment on any technology. "Part of the problem seems to be that the information seems to be spread out across the organisation," said Simpson. "An IT manager would have to go to facilities manager to get the electricity costs, to accounting to get the level of depreciation of equipment and real ... (Read Full Article)

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