RACKWISE ENABLES $7 MILLION IN SAVINGS AT BT AND COUNTING

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During my time at BT I set the Data Centre team the challenge of getting Asset Management right, the team thought I was just being stupid and unreasonable but buckled down and with a bit of hard work got it close to 100% right with processes to keep it right. As a direct result of this effort, we were able to switch off 10% of BT’s UK Server estate and save $7M in electricity costs.

So how was it done? We got the assets right, got the rack layout right and then started focusing on who owned the servers and what they were doing. I took a very hard line approach and promised to switch off all servers that did not have an owner and a purpose. There was a lot of brinkmanship, change control items and angst but everyone got the message loud and clear that kit was being switched off and removed from the premises unless it was in active production.

With proper Asset Management rack planning, change control, incident management and financial controls are so much simpler to achieve. In the picture above Glasshouse Technologies integrated their Reflector product with RACKWISE Rack Management. Steve O’Donnell