Datacentres head for a virtual future
Una Du Noyer, Vice President, Head of Architecture and Infrastructure, Capgemini speaks about whether virtualisation is the answer to the increasing demands of power and capacity for datacentres.
9 May 2008
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The datacentre has been transformed from a computerised filing system to a major consumer of resources. According to Gartner, 2% of global carbon emissions are generated by the IT industry and with sustainable IT and low-carbon emissions top of the agenda for many organisations the need for datacentres need to be justified.
“These days firms can be assessed on their corporate social responsibility,” Una states. With increasing demands to manage large volumes of data, datacentres have consumed all kinds of expensive resources including manpower; companies are now looking to virtualisation as the solution.
With virtualisation, datacentre managers would be able to halve the number of machines they require, use less office space and use less power. However virtualisation comes with its own issues and there needs to be a more cross-industry solution.
“Everyone one wants to consolidate, but there is a massive backlog of kit to get rid of, and it runs applications that are not documented, written in ancient languages that nobody knows how to transcribe,” says Una.
Una consults FTSE 100 clients on all aspects of infrastructure and networking, where
she has worked as an IT architect for large multi-national organisations. Una
has for worked as a lead IT architect on a number of large-scale global IT roll-outs
for blue chip clients.
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