{"id":10655,"date":"2014-05-01T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3078190"},"modified":"2014-05-01T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T13:47:00","slug":"wasted-it-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wasted-it-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasted IT Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Rubinstein&#8217;s post &#8220;Industry Watch: Be resilient as you PaaS&#8221; makes a very good point about underutilized hardware in IT data-centers.<br \/>\nMillions of enterprise workloads remain in data centers, where servers are 30% to 40% underutilized, and that&#8217;s if they&#8217;re virtualized. If not, they&#8217;re only using 5% to 7% of capacity.<br \/>\nThe reason for this?<br \/>\nTake, for example, servers that are spun up for a project two years ago that were never decommissioned, just sitting there, waiting for a new workload that will never come. And, because the costs of blades and racks went down, cheap hardware has led to a kind of data center sprawl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3078190\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Rubinstein&#8217;s post &#8220;Industry Watch: Be resilient as you PaaS&#8221; makes a very good point about underutilized hardware in IT data-centers.<br \/>\nMillions of enterprise workloads remain in data centers, where servers are 30% to 40% underutilized, and that&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}