This report examines the key strategies for IT managers and the technologies that will deliver cost-effective next-generation datacentres.Great expectations are being placed on today’s datacentre. It should be available and scalable as it copes with increasing volumes of data, but do so with fewer resources, as IT directors grapple with demands that they improve operational efficiency while shrinking IT budgets. Many IT leaders think the only way of squaring this circle is to consider technologies such as virtualisation, cloud computing and the latest developments in server technology