Practical Steps toward a Green Data Center

Relocate (Jun 22 2010) Monitoring , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. Energy efficiency and reduced power consumption in the data center are becoming less about simply reducing costs and more about improving environmental friendliness and about keeping government regulators at bay. As public awareness of environmental and energy issues grows (and as the political climate becomes increasingly hostile to industries—such as the data center segment—that are power hogs), companies must find ways to reduce their energy usage. Government regulators and increasing demand for energy are both contributing to increasing energy prices. In the face of ever-increasing demand for IT services, this is no small task, and making significant reductions in a data center’s energy demands can be extremely expensive. Nevertheless, reducing a data center’s energy consumption and its corresponding environmental impact need not break the bank—companies can take a number of simple and practical (and often inexpensive) steps in their data centers to achieve a better ... (Read Full Article)

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