Simple Data Center Best Practices Can Cut Energy Use by 20 Percent

greenercomputing.com (Oct 29 2009) Power and Cooling , Servers

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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, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

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  1. “ The data center itself has always been a capital asset, but it's becoming a fundamental business differentiator for almost any industry. ”
  2. “ If you pull together the people who have a stake in that data center and start to take on the challenge of how to improve efficiency while improving productivity, the improvements that happen just from the initial discussions are just amazing. ”

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  1. Simple Data Center Best Practices Can Cut Energy Use by 20 Percent As part of a partnership with The Green Grid, the U.S. EPA made a number of small tweaks to how it managed one of its data centers, and ended up saving $15,000 per year in energy costs as a result. That was one of the examples on offer today in a free webcast hosted by GreenBiz.com, and bringing together some of the industry leaders behind The Green Grid, an industry consortium dedicated to improving energy efficiency in data centers. "The data center itself has always been a capital asset, but it's becoming a fundamental business differentiator for ... (Read Full Article)

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