Whilst I agree with @StrategicBlue and @QuinnyPig on more efficient use ... a couple of things to note.
a) We're doing more stuff - Jevons Paradox
b) We never knew what most of the stuff in data centres was actually doing. We can now at least, switch if off.
a) We're doing more stuff - Jevons Paradox
b) We never knew what most of the stuff in data centres was actually doing. We can now at least, switch if off.
https://twitter.com/StrategicBlue/status/1367028226976083971
X : How much waste is in the data centre?
Me : Difficult to know because we don't often have ways of effectively measuring it. I know one particular client who got their "critical" IT estate down from 7,200+ applications to less than 600. Most the "critical" was never used.
Me : Difficult to know because we don't often have ways of effectively measuring it. I know one particular client who got their "critical" IT estate down from 7,200+ applications to less than 600. Most the "critical" was never used.
Given duplication, bias (custom building what is a commodity), lack of monitoring, unused assets etc then as a rule of thumb, I expect 90% of all power (base resource) to be wasted but that's not just an IT thing ... in all departments I expect this - finance, marketing, HR etc.
X : How would a company survive with such waste?
Me : Survival of the fittest also means survival of the least incompetent. If we are all useless in a market then no-one has an advantage. The danger is someone comes into our market who isn't useless ... Alibaba, Amazon etc.
Me : Survival of the fittest also means survival of the least incompetent. If we are all useless in a market then no-one has an advantage. The danger is someone comes into our market who isn't useless ... Alibaba, Amazon etc.
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