Robert L. Scheier 06/10/2008
Some data center managers find that budgets are so tight that all they can do is play for time. That's the case for Randi Levin, chief technology officer and general manager of IT for the city of Los Angeles. Like many other IT managers, she's about to run out of power and cooling at the city's main downtown data center. But with the city facing a deficit of more than $400 million, it's unlikely she'll get the $28 million to $30 million needed to upgrade the facility -- even if that was a worthwhile investment for a data center at the bottom of a high-rise building in an earthquake-prone city.
Levin says IBM is in the early stages of a study to find a way to virtualize the 600 servers in the facility down to as few as 30 or 40 physical machines. She says she hopes server virtualization will let her use the existing facility for another two or three years while she develops other long-term options.
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