Here are this week’s top stories from around the industry considering data center efficiency, cooling, and best practices. Enjoy!
How to Get Paid for Your Data Center Efficiency Project
From DataCenterKnowledge.com
The incredible amount of energy needed to power data centers is well documented. Globally, data center energy use accounts for three percent of all electricity consumed, a figure that will continue to grow in the coming years. While fueling one of the backbones of our economy, this incredible power usage has resulted in staggering electricity bills and large amounts of pollution.
Improving Data Center Efficiency [Q&A]
From BetaNews.com
With the growth of the cloud, data centers have become big business. In fact, it’s estimated that they now use around 10 percent of the world’s energy. It’s not surprising then that companies are looking to increase the efficiency of their IT operations, cut their energy use and reduce their carbon footprints. However, the solution to finding more efficiency may be closer than they think.
Three Reasons to Reshape your Data Center with Converged Architecture
From WindowsITPro.com
Converged systems are powerful platforms that have taken the industry by storm. With built-in automation and high-density architecture, converged systems help organizations architect a very robust cloud and storage environment. The idea is to create unparalleled density and allow for resources to be delivered as effectively as possible.
As Energy Hogs, Data Centers a Boon for Efficiency and Renewables
From PowerSource.Post-Gazette.com
In an unassuming building in the Strip District, vXchnge’s data center was a whirl of fans, blusters of hot and cold air, blinking lights from computer servers stacked in cabinets. Those cabinets formed rows and the rows filled the area of three basketball courts — all part of the careful storage of information from financial institutions, health care giants and other businesses that outsource the safe keeping of their data in “cloud” storage.
5 Methods For Improving Data Center Efficiency
From ElectronicDesign.com
The data center industry has become one of the world’s largest consumers of electricity. Accordingly, Yole Développement recently published a report entitled “New Technologies and Architectures for Efficient Data Center,” which examines several possible scenarios for the evolution of these centers’ energy consumption. And make no mistake: Evolution is a necessity.
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Data Center Best Practices: Specifying Cooling Unit Set Points
From The Upsite Blog
While determining a data center set point may sound like a facilities decision, it is often dictated by IT management, leading to the normal round of “meat locker” jokes at data center conferences around the country. The plethora of conference papers and industry e-newsletters notwithstanding, it is still common to see 72° F set points in a large proportion of data centers today, and lower set points in the range of 68° F are still not uncommon.
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