1. Data Centers Heat Up

    American Banker Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers
    Data Centers Heat Up

    The energy consumed by data centers around the world, according to some estimates, will reach 2 trillion kilowatts per hour by 2020. Data centers consume about 2% of all power used worldwide. But several trends are converging to make data centers, the engines behind corporate IT, more efficient and less energy draining. Server, storage and network virtualization and the movement of some computing tasks to public clouds are helping reduce data center power needs. And forward-thinking data center managers are letting temperatures rise in their facilities as high as 85%, enabling dramatic savings.

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    1. We've given our storage engineering team quite a bit of feedback on how they are consuming storage on a per-terabyte basis.
      By Jim Borendame
    2. It's extremely effective; it's helped us change our hardware configurations in noticeable ways.
      By Jim Borendame
    3. In 2011, for every physical server we installed, we took out 2.8 physical servers on average, which is a big deal.
      By Jim Borendame
    4. We've been able to go to zero and we're starting to shrink the footprint.
      By Jim Borendame
    5. We're not planning to do it outside of that space because it's not easy to manage in small spaces.
      By Jim Borendame
    6. Just in one data center we took $80,000 a year out of the electric bill by adjusting the cooling systems.
      By Jim Borendame
    7. We've purposely held back from self-service provisioning, we really want to crawl, walk, run in that.
      By Jim Borendame
    8. The industry judges how well it's doing based on kilowatts per ton, how many watts do I consume to produce a ton of cooling.
      By Paul Fusan
    9. That's why we feel comfortable making these predictions - we have a model we're running right now, we know what the kilowatts per ton is there, so we're feeling optimistic.
      By Paul Fusan
    10. We're in the process of migrating our loads off those little unitary systems and onto the central plant, but it's a process.
      By Paul Fusan
    11. When you look at the operating spec on most electronic equipment, we're babying these things way too much.
      By Paul Fusan
    12. We've created our own unit of work, we took servers and bench-tested them ourselves.
      By Paul Fusan
    13. The reason we did that is because of the usual fear, uncertainty, and doubt in corporate data center land about what happens if you increase the temperature.
      By Andrew Stokes
    14. Facility managers instinctively run much too cautious temperature and humidity ranges inside data centers.
      By Andrew Stokes
    15. When we started to recognize the increasing importance of sustainability and energy conservation, we started to think about how we control these systems, stop unnecessary wastage and drive more efficiency across the whole estate.
      By Andrew Stokes
    16. All those things are creating a capability for us to drive business growth and competitiveness in our marketplace out of less physical consumption of assets.
      By Andrew Stokes
    17. External cloud service providers increasingly have to understand how to address their products towards enterprises in highly regulated environments.
      By Andrew Stokes
    18. We've come to the realization that building out our own data centers is a thing of the past, it's a waste of time and energy to build out the brick and mortar of the data center.
      By Steve Van Wyk
    19. As you think about the long-term future and the services being delivered to the cloud, standards like BIAN start breaking down how these service components integrate with each other across the industry.
      By Steve Van Wyk
    20. In the past, people would physically unbox the physical devices, burn on the operating system, burn on the complementary supporting environment, and connect to the network.
      By Steve Van Wyk

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