Increasing Data Centre efficiency through optimisation is the one of the primary IT objectives of many organisations, driven by the need to reduce overall total cost of ownership, complexity, and carbon footprint, whilst simultaneously improving overall business IT agility, performance, and utilisation.

Data Centre optimisation is a multi-layered challenge. This white paper seeks to provide some insight into the sorts of challenges organisations are currently facing, and some considerations for optimisation at three critical layers in the data centre, namely the facilities, infrastructure, and technology layers.