Published: 18 May 2023
This Consult the Board survey summary contains inputs from 19 Gartner Research Board for Global CIOs and Data and Analytics Research Board members regarding their strategies for expanding, scaling, and increasing the efficiency in their on-premises data centers. It describes members’ processes for capacity planning, ways of ensuring operational efficiency, usage of renewable energy, and approaches for selecting data center sites.
What are members' practices for maintaining efficiency in their legacy data centers?
Almost all respondents (11 of 12) are virtualizing the physical workloads for efficiently operating the data center white space.
Five (of 8) respondents use artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) for productive improvements to maximize the efficiency in their data centers.
The majority of respondents (9 of 15) optimize IT power, which includes consolidating virtual machines, virtualizing more workloads, and eliminating servers that are powered but doing nothing useful, to achieve low power usage effectiveness (PUE) in their data centers.
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