- Most corporate data centers run at 50% total capacity and individual server are 5 to 10% utilization**. If you own the data center and servers, at least 50% of every dollar is wasted.
- IT departments spend 80% of their time maintaining systems and only 20% of their time putting new systems into production or innovating**. Additionally, at least ½ of maintenance goes to unused or underutilized systems.
- Infrastructure (HVAC, UPS power systems, generators, networking, etc.) are extremely expensive to buy and maintain. Consider a professional data center (Infrastructure as a Server – IaaS) that allow you to only pay for what you use.
- It can take 3 to 4 weeks to release a new production application (buying servers, waiting for them to be delivered, setup & config, etc.). Not only do you have the capital expense for the new equipment, but also considerable human resource costs for the people to do all of the work. Consider a cloud service provider that has the resources available to setup a new server in minutes with options to only pay for what you use & add or change resource allocations on the fly.
** Stats and info from the Uptime Institute & CIO.com