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Demand for data center capacity is rising
As demand for data center capacity accelerates, fueled by the rise of AI workloads, organizations struggle to understand the true cost and operational constraints of their data center footprint. Power, cooling, and space limitations make it harder to scale efficiently, while their rising expenses drive the cost of operating and maintaining facilities up. This data is also often fragmented, leaving no single view of data center TCO and capacity headroom, nor the ability to perform accurate chargeback.
Without this visibility, leaders cannot confidently plan data center investments, optimize sites, or manage the long-term data center strategy.
Typical customer outcomes with IBM Apptio
faster answers to ITFM questions
reduction in planning cycle time
application inventory rationalized
Discover how to control data center costs, optimize capacity, and scale efficiently with IBM Apptio Data Center TCO.
Get a clear, enterprise-wide view of data center operations and maintenance
How much are data centers really costing, and do you have room to grow? You need insights to guide long-term investments and expansion in data centers to capture the demand from AI. Data Center TCO helps you turn fragmented data center details into confident investment and accountability decisions.
Get a clear, enterprise-wide view of data center operations and maintenance
How much are data centers really costing, and do you have room to grow? You need insights to guide long-term investments and expansion in data centers to capture the demand from AI. Data Center TCO helps you turn fragmented data center details into confident investment and accountability decisions.
Understand your data center cost footprint
Quantify TCO and unit economics across data center sites and regions (including $/kW, $/rack, and $/sq ft) to enable drill-down into key cost drivers such as power, vendors, and labor. Analyze costs by facility type (owned, leased, co-location), region, facility manager, and tier (Tier I, II, III).
These insights help you identify inefficiencies, guide investment decisions, and optimize spend.
Identify cost drivers & constraints
Gain visibility into cost drivers, including facility, energy, and vendor costs, to understand the largest cost areas and prioritize spend. Identify constraints across power, cooling, rack space, and floor space to inform data center expansion and investment decisions.
When leaders get insights into the capacity utilization and available headroom of each facility (power, space and cooling), they can proactively manage data center capacity and minimize short-term, reactive remediation.
Improve accountability of data center consumption
Trace how data center costs are allocated to infrastructure components such as servers and storage, all the way to end solutions and business units.
Using Apptio’s ATUM allocation, infrastructure owners can see how data center costs flow into servers and storage, while solution, application, service owners, and business units gain visibility into how these costs contribute to their overall spend. This enables defensible showback and chargeback, improving consumption accountability.
IBM Apptio Data Center TCO captures the total cost of operating and maintaining the physical facility that supports IT services
Power
Cooling
Maintenance
Space
Security
Labor
Other CapEx
Answer critical data center questions
- Understand your data center cost footprint
- Identify and optimize capacity utilization & constraints
- Improve accountability of data center consumption
Answers questions like:
- What is the total data center TCO by site and region?
- What are unit costs by site ($/kW, $/rack, $/server)?
- How is cost distributed by cost driver (facilities, power, hardware, labor, vendor contracts)?
Answers questions like:
- What is our utilization for critical data center resources?
- Where are resources underutilized across facilities?
- How much headroom remains before reaching capacity limits?
- Which constraints are limiting workload growth at each facility?
Answers questions like:
- How are data center costs allocated to servers and storage?
- How do infrastructure costs flow from servers and storage to applications, services, and business units?
- What is the cost contribution of data center infrastructure to each solution and business unit?
Solve a cross-functional challenge
Executives and IT leadership
Get a unified view of cost, capacity, and constraints to guide investment, expansion, consolidation, and exit decisions.
IT Finance
Track defensible unit economics and allocations to improve forecasting, showback, and chargeback.
Data center and facility owners
Gain visibility into power, cooling, space, and site-level costs and capacity utilization to proactively manage constraints and plan for pricing & capacity effectively.
Infrastructure, application, and product & service owners
Get visibility into data center consumption and cost attribution to support utilization, migration, and accountability decisions.