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In measuring data center power use, more (info) is more
Data Center (Jul 27 2009) Monitoring , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers
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Today, data center managers find that they can't improve what they can't see, and so they are looking to measure power downstream from a data center's utility meter.
According to SearchDataCenter.com's Data Center Decisions purchasing intentions survey, 84% of 670 respondents said that reducing data center power consumption was important. And yet according to the same report, 36% didn't know how their power bills compared with the previous year.
This lack of awareness, however, has started to change.
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