With power consumption and energy costs on the rise, consolidation is a necessity for today's datacenters. In fact, 40% of U.S. companies have cited power reduction as an IT objective for their company. In August 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that U.S. enterprises spent $4.5 billion in 2006 on data center power bills. Additionally, the EPA forecasted that the U.S. server market is expected to grow from 2.8 million units in 2009 to 4.9 million units in 2009. If current trends continue, data center power bills are expected to rise to $7.4 billion by 2011 - requiring 10 new power plants to support the load, and increasing carbon emissions by 63%. Beyond the significant cost of energy, this is seen as a serious environmental issue by both business and government.

Infrastructure Consolidation and Optimization solutions from EMC deliver a holistic approach to consolidation, data center relocation, and migration - enabling you to maximize server and storage assets, increase service levels, and reduce costs and energy consumption. We offer industry-leading technologies and advanced capabilities to address your organization's server and storage consolidation challenges including:

• Infrastructure consolidation: Optimize your computing assets, including data centers, applications, databases, servers, and storage, with a simple, cost-effective, flexible tiered architecture.
• Energy efficiency: Optimize energy consumption throughout your infrastructure and achieve green IT data center goals. EMC storage platforms are designed to consume less energy per terabyte than alternative solutions.
• Non-disruptive data center migration: Consolidate and relocate data centers more quickly, more cost-effectively, and with less risk.
• Data center footprint reduction: Ensure more efficient use of data center floor space with server and storage consolidation, tiered network storage, and best practices.
• Simplified management: Gain management efficiencies and cost savings through asset consolidation.
• Increased asset utilization: Consolidate applications, servers, and storage to increase flexibility and reduce costs.
• Lower total cost of ownership: Reduce capital and operational costs through asset consolidation, floor space reduction, and lower energy consumption.
• IP storage consolidation: Eliminate bottlenecks, optimize file server utilization, and boost performance while simplifying migrations and IP storage management.
• Mid-range tiered consolidation: Get efficient tiered storage with EMC CLARiiON networked storage, which is easy to install, manage, and scale, and provides unmatched reliability.
• High-end tiered consolidation: Meet a wide range of service level requirements with tiered storage options like EMC Symmetrix DMX networked storage systems.
• Data and file mobility: Use software such as EMC EmailXtender, DatabaseXtender, and DiskXtender to move data seamlessly to the right level of storage, enabling efficient tiered storage that saves power.

Source: If You Measure It, They Will Green: Data Center Energy Efficiency Metrics; Info-Tech Research Group.

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