How many servers in your data center are not doing anything useful?

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Based on Viridity Software research, between 30 and 40% of the servers running in data centers today may not be doing any useful work at all.  Why?  Well, potentially useful systems remain nonproductive or underemployed for many reasons. Here are a few:

• It's hard to predict application-usage profiles so servers run with little use
• New applications replace old ones and the server keeps running
• Business interests change and no one tells the data center manager
• It's been too hard to track IT assets closely, much less the space, power and cooling they use, so no changes are made

Think this might be the case with some of your servers?  Don't wonder.  Find out.  Viridity Software offers a FREE calculator that shows the annual ROI of removing underutilized servers.  Try it and see how much money your organization might save.  We also offer a white paper entitled "Nonproductive Servers in the Data Center" that offers the top seven reasons to remove orphan servers from the data center floor.