IDC Research Report: The Business Value of Consolidating on Energy-Efficient Servers

Most organizations faced with budget challenges put off capital expenditures (capex) and seek alternatives, such as extending server life cycles and extending software licenses. This paper demonstrates that such a buy and hold strategy actually adds costs to the datacenter. In fact, refreshing server infrastructure on pace with newer technology (e.g., every two years) can reduce six-year server costs by 33%  compared with buying and holding servers for those six years.  Continue to read the full report from IDC.....