IBM has unveiled plans to build a $360 million energy-efficient data center in North Carolina. IBM reports that the center will provide a variety of IT services to strategic outsourcing clients, including technologies for cloud computing. The center, which will be made by recycling 90 percent of materials used from the company's previous center, will feature IBM’s latest water-cooling technology and will use renewable energy. Available video includes a narrated package, general views of the data center and of the headquarters as well as soundbites.

How can organizations today achieve superior business value and support from their data centers? That's a complex question, particularly in consideration of the many challenges facing data centers today: costs and service delivery, business resilience and security, and escalating energy requirements. Learn more about a breakthrough approach to answer these challenges.

Align IT with business goals

These changes demand that IT improve cost and service delivery, manage escalating complexity, and better secure the enterprise. And aligning IT more closely with the business becomes a primary goal. The new enterprise data center is an evolutionary new model for efficient IT delivery that helps provide the freedom to drive business innovation. Through a service oriented model, IT will be able to better manage costs, improve operational performance and resiliency, and more quickly respond to business needs. This approach will deliver dynamic and seamless access to IT services and resources, improving both productivity and satisfaction.

IBM's Vision for the New Enterprise Data Center

The new enterprise data center can improve the integration of people, process, and technology in your business to help you improve efficiency and effectiveness. As you implement a new enterprise data center strategy, your infrastructure becomes open, efficient, and easy to manage. And your IT staff can move from a focus on fixing IT problems to solving business challenges. Ultimately your processes become standardized and efficient, focused on business needs rather than technology.

Because your business is unique, every approach and implementation will be unique. IBM has identified the following key entry points for new enterprise data center projects: virtualization, energy efficiency, security and business resiliency, and IT service delivery.

Explore the information on this page, and then contact your IBM representative for more detail.