IT Minds Quest for 'Holy Grail' of Data Center Metrics

Wired News (Dec 9 2011) Servers

1. What’s the best way to measure the efficiency of a data center? No one really knows. But there’s no shortage of IT minds trying to figure it out. Last month, in partnership with Intel, data-center management software vendor iTRACS took up the challenge of developing a metric — a single number — that will allow data-center operators to assess the efficiency of their facilities relative to their bottom line, and the company is only the latest in a string of organizations trying to develop similar metrics. Industry coalition The Green Grid has been working on the problem for four years. “A lot of folks have been interested in this issue for some time, and there’s never really been a good consensus in the industry on how to tackle it,” says John Pflueger, a Green Grid board member and principal environmental strategist for Dell. “And we quickly came to the ... (Read Full Article)

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