Research firm suggests money-saving ways to manage those resources

Servers and storage services take up a “significant portion” of most IT department budgets, according to Info-Tech Research Group.

The London-based firm has released a report outlining specific techniques IT managers can use to reduce server and storage costs and improve the performance of technologies already in place.

The report, “Reducing Cost-to-Serve: Server & Storage Services,” provides 18 recommendations, some aimed at achieving to short- and medium-term goals, and others targeted at long-term goals.

Immediate tactics include wrapping up in-progress server consolidation projects, applying “quick-fixes” to cooling costs and extending the life of servers.

“For organisations that have not started to virtualise, do not replace old servers before their useful life is over. If network bandwidth or storage throughput is bottlenecked, but the CPU operates at less than 80% utilisation, then this server does not yet need to be replaced,” the report states.

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