{"id":10847,"date":"2017-12-14T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/news-4619\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:00:07","slug":"news-4619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/news-4619\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Justify Data Center Modernization to an Executive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Martin Heller| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:58:03 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

A key challenge facing data center operations personnel is how to achieve buy-in from executives for funding technology upgrade projects. For many, the critical success factor for getting executive backing hinges on the ability to communicate the functions of new technologies in terms that reflect business value. Improved data center operational efficiency and connectivity have to translate into cost reduction, faster turnover, and higher return on investment.<\/p>\n

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Executives often express frustration that subordinates lose them in detailed discussions surrounding watts per square foot, server densities and dew point temperatures. Oftentimes, those discussions end with data center teams failing to acquire the funding they need to move technology innovation forward.<\/p>\n

The challenge of justifying data center technology upgrades to executives has recently become even more difficult given the migration over the last several years of many on-premise data center applications to the cloud.\u00a0 In effect, data center staffs have been left with the demanding task of having to manage a \u201chybrid\u201d environment that includes both the physical assets that remain behind on-premise, the cloud\/colo applications that still need to be managed remotely, and now, newer edge\/microdata center environments that are emerging to help address some of the high bandwidth application latency issues.<\/p>\n

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In this hybrid environment, executives will need to understand the cost \/ benefit implications of all three of these scenarios. Consider just one example (in this case, involving an on-premise scenario) of how data center staff can justify the replacement of an oversized uninterruptible power supply (UPS) that was left behind after 75% of the servers migrated to the cloud or to a colo center.\u00a0 The UPS is outdated because it was originally specified to support the servers in the traditional on-premise data center prior to virtualization and cloud migration.<\/p>\n

Cost avoidance is one effective technique<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rather than approaching executive management by saying that the old data center UPS needs replacing because it\u2019s over 10 years old, a clear cost \/ benefit scenario must be articulated. \u00a0A justification presentation should include background on how the on-premise data center environment has changed and how the \u201cside effects\u201d of the migration to the cloud need to be managed to both cut costs and increase availability of business systems.\u00a0 In the justification for a UPS upgrade, the following points should be articulated:<\/p>\n

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  1. The existing UPS now runs at 30% utilization. This represents a high cost \/ low return scenario. The UPS is already amortized and paid for.\u00a0 But at 30%, utilization it is highly inefficient.\u00a0 Money is being thrown away each day.<\/li>\n
  2. How much money? Modern UPS systems<\/a> operate at 94%-99% efficiency while older legacy UPSs are at 85% -92% across the same load range. \u00a0Over a 10-year period, if a modern 500 kW UPS supporting 400 kW of IT load 7×24 with an efficiency rating of 96% is compared to a legacy UPS with an efficiency of 88% under the identical scenario, \u00a0the user would save $392,450 in electrical costs with the more modern UPS (see Schneider Electric White Paper #214 \u201cGuidance on What to Do with an Older UPS<\/a>\u201d for a breakdown of the calculations).<\/li>\n
  3. That amount does not take into account higher maintenance costs for the older UPS, nor the likelihood of increased downtime and business disruption. The data center teams need to communicate to business executives the cost of inaction when outdated technologies are not replaced or upgraded. If that data center supports a healthcare facility, for example, estimated cost of downtime is approximately $636,000 an hour on average.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Once the executives see the numbers and understand the business implications, support for the modernization of existing data center facilities becomes easier. For more information regarding data center modernization benefits, download the new Schneider Electric resource guide entitled \u201cModernize or Outsource: Evaluating the Options for your Data Center<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Credit to Author: Martin Heller| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:58:03 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

    A key challenge facing data center operations personnel is how to achieve buy-in from executives for funding technology upgrade projects. For many, the critical success factor for getting executive backing… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n

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