Green room: Carbon diem

The Voice of IT Management (Oct 20 2011) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Emissions

1. The increasing demand for power and its cost have emerged as primary concerns for Indian IT organizations, driving them to take a closer look at the efficiencies of their data centers and IT infrastructure. With data centers being the primary contributor to energy costs, the need to reduce power consumption within it has been a recurring theme across organizations. When it comes to increasing power efficiencies, one needs to understand the cost of running and managing the data center as well as the environmental costs associated with it in order to deploy appropriate technological solutions. About 50 per cent of the energy costs in data centers go into heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), power conditioning and distribution. The rest is spent on servers, storage, and network equipment. (Read Full Article)

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