Coolan Blog What's in a Name (Plate Value)?

The answer: Not much when it comes to power provisioning. Hear us out. The demand for compute capacity is growing every day, and successful companies are scaling faster than ever. In response, organizations have typically resorted to over-provisioning -- they buy more data center space and equipment than necessary today in anticipation of IT demands tomorrow. While this strategy is helpful for contingency planning, it presents a downside: zombie servers sit idle in data centers, wasting energy and money.