Summary Insights: 10 Ways to Cut DC Costs

RFG Perspective: IT executives should be able to reduce data center costs by more than 40 percent, which should help them fund investments that better enable current applications, develop new generative AI (genAI) apps or other solutions that improve the enterprise’s competitive advantage. Most data centers today are not monitoring and measuring their operations’ performance so that they can run at optimum or maximum efficiency. There are 10 levers at their disposal that they can use to lower data center costs short- and long-term whether the workloads are in on-premises data centers, colocation sites, or in the cloud. While some of the benefits may go to the Facilities group, most of the savings will accrue to the IT operations group. In that the demand for more compute and solutions is increasing and that power is, and will be constrained over the foreseeable future, the time to act is now.

10 Ways to Cut DC Costs