Private and public clouds are driving up data center agility, making it possible to more cost-effectively shift workloads to utilize lower energy rates
Every disruptive technology in the data center forces IT teams to rethink the related practices and approaches. Virtualization, for example, led to new resource provisioning practices and service delivery models. Cloud technologies and services are driving similarly profound changes. Data center managers have many more choices for service delivery, and workloads can be more easily shifted between the available compute resources distributed across both private and public data centers.
Among the benefits stemming from this agility, new approaches for lowering data center energy costs have many organizations considering cloud alternatives.