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Data Center Design:
Construction,
Container,
Data Center Outages,
Monitoring,
Power and Cooling
Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer
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Wireless helps hone data center efficiencies
NetworkWorld.com (Oct 24 2009) Monitoring , Cloud Computing
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Enterprise efforts to consolidate data centers and install virtualization software are taking a big bite out of the number of power-hungry application and storage servers required to support enterprise data. But after taking this critical first step, what else can you do to boost efficiency?
You can move from hatchet to scalpel (to borrow a metaphor from President Obama). In this instance, the reference means that once you've minimized your number of power-sucking devices, it's time to precisely monitor and measure data center environmental metrics -- down to the nitty-gritty rack level -- so that you know exactly what adjustments are needed to optimize efficiency.
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