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Concern about high density infrastructure deployments to increase
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 13 May 2010, 21:51 IST
New Delhi: There will be acceleration of data center power, cooling and space problems due to increase in the server sales during the next two years. The effects of new deployments are required to be quantified and necessary action should be taken in time.
"While server sales expected to rise the next two years, many IT administrators are already grappling with data center power, cooling and space issues of its current fleet," said Rakesh Kumar, Research Vice President at Gartner. "Virtualization and consolidation projects will help offset some of these issues, but with the snowball effect that these issues tend to create within an organization, users need to act quickly," added Kumar.
As there is a decline in revenue by 16.5 percent and 16.8 percent decline in volume last year in the server market worldwide, analysts have forecasted that the market will recover from 2010, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5 percent for shipments and 2.4 percent revenue from 2010 to 2014.
Increasing number of servers would generate more heat and after the IT market picks up, the number of servers would shoot up. In order to cool these servers, more cooling equipments are needed. This would become worse in an expanding market as there would be a problem of dealing with space for these servers.
Gartner has suggested not underestimating these issues, to consolidate and virtualize projects using monitoring tools and to assess the benefits of delaying new server purchases.
