Data Centers

Cobalt Computers and Cobalt business partners have solutions that can help make your IT infrastructure energy efficient.

Our solutions will help you meet the following challenges:

• Continued rise of overall energy costs and demand
• Cost of air conditioning to cool data centers or computer rooms
• Concern over power surges and shortages affecting business
• Government-imposed levies on carbon production and regulations on power consumption and waste
• Increasing drive towards centralized data centers
• Too many servers that are partially used or not used to capacity
• Need for an environmentally safe way to dispose of old software or hardware

Our energy efficient solutions are based on proven technologies utilized by IBM and its customers to realize immediate, tangible return on investments through implementation of more efficient IT practices. By focusing on energy efficiency within your IT department or organization, you can lower your overall energy expenses and optimize your existing server capacities to free up budget for business-critical solutions. And you get to do your part in preserving resources for the greater good.

Ever wonder if your operating costs are worth it?

This team has the experience and skill to provide platform independent consultants for IT Optimization, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), and Virtualization studies. We provide a business case comparison of your current and future costs as compared with the cost of running on IBM server and storage solutions.

This service is available for:

• Power Systems™
• System Storage™
• System x™
• System z™
• ILM and Tiered Information Infrastructure

Studies are a combination of IT cost analysis and technical architecture. We use real client data while providing a platform neutral recommendation which can help reduce your ongoing operating costs.

Current offerings include:

• IT Systems Rationalization Study
• IT Optimization Workshop
• Virtualization Rapid Assessment - Initializing Virtualization
• Virtualization Rapid Assessment for UNIX
• Advanced Virtualization Rapid Assessment
• SystemsGreen Assessment
• Comparative Total Cost of Computing Study
• ILM / Storage Optimization Assessment
• ILM / Storage Optimization Workshop
• Storage Energy Analysis