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These last points lead to the need for an operations review. Does your IT operations team coordinate and cooperate with your physical plant operations team and vice versa? If IT anticipates a surge in server traffic and usage maybe even a rapid deployment and provisioning of new servers will they contact the physical operations team and make sure wiring, power and cooling requirements can be met?
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Once you have a clear understanding of the expected operations and applications, their usage patterns and their priority, you can optimize your IT practices to deliver them effectively. Ideally, you will have as much of your network working optimally all the time as possible. In reality, you will need to be able to guarantee good performance for the peak utilization of IT resources without leaving too much of your equipment running idle during the lows.
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Datacenter, network and server technologies improve constantly. Some of the technologies you may wish to upgrade include blade servers, virtualization, dynamic provisioning, smart power monitoring, speedstep technologies that speed up and slow down processors to match demand and lower power use, WakeOnLAN, and others. Most modern network equipment is now designed to be energy efficient.
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