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The Invisible Crisis in the Data Center: The Economic Meltdown of Moore's Law
In this white paper, the Institute examines the true economic productivity of large-scale server computing and the enterprise data center. This paper reviews how facilities’ costs (site OpEx and CapEx) have grown from the historic one to three percent of IT’s total budget to somewhere between five to 15 percent, and outlines necessary changes in IT governance, computer room management, and IT hardware requirements that can bring this phenomenon under control. As the first major output from the Institute’s Symposium in early 2007, this paper explores the repercussions of Moore’s Law from the perspective of the net economic productivity of enterprise IT operating as a whole system, including data center site infrastructure (power and cooling).