Articles from PC Quest Magazine India

Data Centers are among the top consumers of energy. Making data centers 'Green' isthe need of the hour. In Part 1 of this article (carried in Dec issue of PCQ), 'Green Met-rics' were presented. In this last part, we address 'metrics-based self assessment' tomove towards 'Green Data Center'. In the first part of this series, we presented a setof green metrics that should be considered forbuilding a data center. Use these metrics to carryout a self-assessment for your data center, and con-sider facilities, IT equipment and utilization rate. Seetable 1 for some tough questions you should ask your-self during this assessment. Although there are met-rics and measurements available, going green needsto be thought of as a holistic approach. It's not justabout optimum energy usage, or server consolida-tion, or optimum utilization of IT assets (explainedour PCQ Nov, 2010 article). Building a green datacenters also includes planning for a green building ... (Read Full Article)

The first thing to start planning for optimizing the power consumption in your datacenter is finding out how much power do your datacenter, racks, servers, equipment, and other devices consume. Next thing is to figure out the pattern of the consumption. For instance, what is the time of the day when the load from a particular rack is maximum or what's the time the overall load of the datacenter gets minimum. If we gather such relevant data, then it becomes very easy for us to plan for better optimization of resources and hence better optimization of power. (Read Full Article)