IT Financial Management for Data Center Consolidation and Transformation

Data centers remain a very large budget item for corporate IT. The total cost of any data center is driven by a complicated set of underlying drivers: servers, electricity, facilities, support, security, cooling, administration and much more. Full cost visibility into these complex cost drivers is vital to continuously optimize consolidation or transformation.

Manage the Cost and Value of Data Centers

If you have ever struggled to reduce data center costs while continuing to meet business requirements, our IT Financial Management solution can answer key questions including:

• What are the key utilization bottlenecks: CPU, rackspace, cooling, or power? Is it cost effective to improve and increase capacity?
• What are the least expensive data centers with existing capacity so they can be used ahead of more expensive locations?
• What are the most expensive data centers? Can costs be reduced or should they be closed and operations moved to less expensive locations? How much existing capacity do existing data centers have? Does that support forecasted hosting needs?
• Do data centers utilize space, power and cooling efficiently? Are labor costs reasonable for the geographic location?

Out-of-the-Box IT Financial Management

Our deep understanding of the complexity of data center costs is packaged into a powerful product that automates key business processes. Only Digital Fuel IT Financial Management:

• Delivers out-of-the-box data center cost models
• Analyzes "what-if" scenarios to estimate potential savings from data center consolidation and transformation
• Provides data center efficiency reports and drilldowns for key metrics including $/rack, $/square foot, cooling/rack, and much more
• Reports on consolidation candidates by identifying data centers with high $/rack, low floor space utilization and other key metrics
• Delivers density analysis reports that identify opportunities for data center transformation