Figure 1. Annual amortized cost of a fully-configured 1U server in a mission-critical (Tier IV) data center
Complexity and management
Increasingly, the greatest ongoing operational cost is the combined management cost associated with
servers, storage, and networking hardware (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Cost of server hardware in relation to total management costs
Source: IDC Technical Brief Sponsored by HP, Next-Generation Technology for Virtual I/O and Blade Servers,
Doc Number 215119, November 2008
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