Barclays, Sun Life Financial Win Uptime Institute’s Third Annual Server Roundup
Barclays and Sun Life Financial take top honors in contest to improve IT efficiency.
Comatose IT equipment is hiding in plain sight within even the most sophisticated IT organizations. The severs, abandoned by application owners and users but still racked and running, represent a double threat in terms of energy waste squandering power at the plug, but also wasting data center facility power and capacity.
“Comatose servers are like weeds in a garden rampant, insidious and abatement is an ongoing responsibility,” said Matt Stansberry, Uptime Institute director of content and publications. “This is why Uptime Institute challenged companies around the globe to help address and solve the problem of comatose servers by participating in the Server Roundup, an initiative to promote IT and Facilities integration and improve IT efficiency.