The current economic realities have shifted ITs focus modestly from green IT to cost savings. But there remains an ultimate, if utopian, goal associated with accomplishing both at once. A properly functioning virtual environment constantly reduces, reuses and recycles, which serves to drive the cost savings associated with virtualization. But many companies do not have an active virtual recycling program in place. Here, Knowledge Center contributor John Suit shares what we can learn from our green counterparts to better optimize the data center environment.
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organizations struggle with operating at an optimal resource
utilization state. When IT resources are underutilized, they
cannot artificially create demand to maximize their
utilization. When IT resources are overextended, they cannot
quickly create new capacity. While the opportunity exi…