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Maximize data center space with SANs

Jerome Wendt, Contributor
11.21.2007
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Maximizing existing data center space is increasingly on the minds of corporate data center managers. The cost of adding space to a data center can run anywhere from $400 to $1,200 per square foot -- an expense that most companies are anxious to avoid. Factor in the power, heating and cooling costs that new equipment on new floor space will incur, and most companies will welcome advice from service providers to efficiently maximize existing data center space.

The technique of mixing Ethernet and Fibre Channel (FC) on storage area networks (SANs), coupled with new features on SAN storage systems, gives service provi

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ders some solid options to present to clients. And, it might give them access to funds that clients had earmarked for data center infrastructure expansion.

Here are three ways service providers can go about maximizing data center space savings for their clients:

About the author: Jerome Wendt is the founder and lead analyst of The Datacenter Infrastructure Group, an independent analyst firm. He began his career as a systems administrator and has worked in a number of end-user roles in both public and private organizations, including senior storage administrator, systems manager and storage systems engineer.

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