More than any other, power monitoring is the catch phrase for 2011. Watch for there to be stricter and more frequent reviews of power needs and how to reduce the overall demand within data centers, says David Matusow, an architect with the Center of Excellence at SunGard Availability Services (www.availability.sungard.com). More companies will want to increase the monitoring of data demands by various pieces of technology. “Currently, very few organizations do an actual review of their demand and how it can be reduced,” Matusow says. “This is changing. Some of this change is a direct result of data center managers taking on more facilities requirements, such as utility monitoring. This is leading the data center managers to be accountable for the power and its associated cost, which is resulting in far more review and investigation.”

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