Last updated on February 14, 2023
In most healthcare organizations, the data center is in crisis. Utility costs are increasing, squeezing out other elements of the IT budget, and as hospitals require more applications, resources and storage, data center space is increasingly limited.
The global recession has put a crimp in many ambitious plans for green initiatives. IT leaders have come to realize that the only way to sell “green” to the hospital board is by demonstrating reduced costs, not by selling altruism.
Virtualization has become a key cost-saving initiative in many hospitals. By moving from physical to virtualized servers, hospitals are both reducing their footprint within the data center, and noticing a dramatic reduction in power and AC. The resulting savings make the move an obvious choice from a financial perspective, with the added benefit of making the hospital more eco-friendly.
Gartner offers some important tips for how IT management can “green” the data center, and organizations like VMware offer a variety of solutions for cost-effective energy efficiency.
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