Paul Fox

Paul Fox

Paul Foxis director of data center operations at Aligned Data Centers, the first pay-for-use data center provider to offer consumption-based pricing for organizations that require greater control of their data center. Read more articles from Paul Fox: www.missioncriticalmagazine.com/paulfox.

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Risk Mitigation And Efficient Utlization

What causes underutilization of a data center?

How to avoid underutilization by effective capacity planning
Paul Fox
Paul Fox
April 1, 2016

The average data center is utilized at 56% capacity from a power perspective, according to a 2015 enterprise data center survey by 451 Research. So on average, 44% of the power that enterprises are allocated — and paying for — is unused. 


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