Here are this week’s top stories from around the industry considering data center efficiency, cooling, and best practices. Enjoy!
For Data Centers, Knowledge is (a Tool to Reduce Consumption of) Power
From EnergyManagerToday.com
Data centers get an oversized amount of attention because they use an oversized amount of energy. It’s been that way for a while, and will continue to be so. Increasingly, sophisticated measurement and management of what actually is happening in the data center is the key to reducing energy use and hiking efficiency.
How Server Power Supplies are Wasting Your Money
From DataCenterKnowledge
Overprovisioning, viewed in data center design and management as something between a best practice and a necessary evil, has been built into the industry’s collective psyche because of its core mission to maintain uptime, at all costs. If a data center team spends more than it really has to, it needs to improve efficiency, but if a data center goes down, somebody’s failed to do their job.
Learn Cooling from the Webscale Operators
From DatacenterDynamics.com
The efficiency of data centers has increased in leaps and bounds in recent years – at the leading edge, anyway. For the rest, there have been worthwhile gains, but nothing like those achieved by the webscale (or hyperscale) operators such as Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. So what is it that those operators are doing right – or rather, better?
Can enterprise IT seem like a good deal again?
From NetworkWorld.com
A few weeks ago, I sat on a panel hosted by CenturyLink on sustainability and efficiency in IT. At CenturyLink’s sunny Irvine, California, data center my co-panelists gathered ahead of going on stage and on camera. One of the panelists remarked that enterprise IT was dying—dying—slowly dying. But I believe this characterization is too broadly phrased and an inaccurate choice of words.
Upsite Stories
Free Cooling in Summer Months: How to Keep Costs Down When Temperatures Rise
From The Upsite Blog
As we sneak up on summer, which has already unofficially hit with a vengeance in some areas out west and in the southwest, let us not lose sight of the opportunities to continue reaping the efficiency and economic benefits of free cooling our data centers, even as we eventually slip into those dog days of summer.
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