Insurance company performs utilization review, sees accelerated benefits in data center upgrade
Poor port utilization and stranded power were two problems uncovered.
In order to achieve greater efficiency and lower power in their data center, a North American insurance provider began to evaluate new solutions to combat problems within their data center. The first problem identified was poor port utilization across their network due to their top of rack switching environment. The data center server cabinets in the initial constructed phase can only house 12 to 14 servers and the top of rack switches dedicated to each server cabinet had very poor port utilization. In fact across the entire date center their port utilization was approximately 19%.
The second problem was stranded power and power ports, which is common in many data centers. Stranded power is defined as power allocated but unused or unusable and therefore depletes capacity available for other power consuming resources such as switches, servers, etc. In addition, there was a wish list to enhance cable management and overall aesthetics in the data center. The insurance company began evaluating options to solve these problems.