Data center costs have increased radically over the last 10 years, and a large part of that has been energy. The desire to save money on energy has led to an interest in green data centers, but Bill Coleman of Cassatt Corporation says this is only the beginning of a bigger change. Operating costs are the other component of the skyrocketing cost of data centers, and that is due to high complexity.
Two tools that will help are IT automation and virtualization, but these are band-aids that will only postpone the need to make revolutionary changes in the way IT is managed. Active power management is one method to handle complexity. It tracks what applications are running on each machine, turns off unused machines, and shifts computing power from low to high priority jobs as needed.
Bill Coleman has more than 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership experience. Prior to Cassatt, he founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, the world’s leading infrastructure software company. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Before BEA, he served as vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, where his team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun’s Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun’s Federal Division. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado.
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