Data Centre Management, Julian Payne, head of data products, Cable & Wireless looks at consolidation.
Today’s multinational organisations are looking to reduce costs in the face of a toughening economic environment and rapidly increasing energy costs. Gartner recently issued a stark statement which highlights the scale of the challenge “power hungry hardware and rising fuel prices could lead to energy costs eating up more than one third of IT budgets within the next 5 years”.

IDC's latest update on information technology (IT) spending in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa reveals a bleaker outlook for the near term in the wake of the worldwide financial crisis. Growth of just under 3% is now expected for the EMEA IT market in 2009, which represents a 1.5-point drop compared to IDC's previous, pre-crisis forecast.

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