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Inflection Point: The Future of the Data Center
itbusinessedge.com (Sep 24 2009) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers
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We are all racing feverishly to improve the efficiency of our data center infrastructure, mainly as part of cost containment and perhaps to “Go Green.” However, there's a huge amount of finger-pointing and confusion in the computing world today over the impact that blade servers and virtualization are having on the data center. On the one hand, you have the faculties groups calling for a major overhaul of the data center to upgrade physical infrastructure in the data center, while on the other, IT equipment vendors are promising that the next generation of systems will be a lot more energy efficient, thereby reducing the overall power load.
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