How to Achieve 40 Percent Energy Savings in Your Data Center

eweek.com (Nov 5 2009) Power and Cooling , Servers

1. Today's data center managers have many techniques to reduce their data center's energy consumption, but a mixture of techniques is often required to achieve energy saving targets. The key to judging success of any energy reduction strategy is the ability to accurately measure results along each step of the way. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Joe Polastre illustrates how power management technology can be used to achieve up to 40 percent energy savings in your data center. Everyone's talking about how the 35 to 40 percent energy savings promised by so-called green data center initiatives can help MIS operations dramatically reduce both their operating expenses and their environmental impact. But despite the buzz, there is not much being said about the most efficient and cost-effective way to achieve these savings—or how to measure them. Meanwhile, the ambitious claims being made by many hardware and software vendors make ... (Read Full Article)

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