Here are this week’s top stories from around the industry considering data center efficiency, cooling, and best practices. Enjoy!
New Data Center Metrics to Gauge Energy, Cooling Efficiency
From TechTarget.com
Despite the benefits of the power usage effectiveness metric, it’s not always sufficient to fully optimize data center efficiency. IT teams need more detailed data center metrics that encompass both the power and cooling infrastructure, as well as the computing systems, to truly optimize the data center.
Here’s How Much Water All US Data Centers Consume
From DataCenterKnowledge.com
Like energy, growth in data center water consumption in the US has slowed down since about a decade ago. A recent US government study for the first time made an attempt to quantify water consumption of all data centers in the country. The study focuses primarily on data center energy consumption, but it also uses its electricity consumption estimates to extrapolate the amount of water it takes to power and cool data centers.
IT, Environmental Concerns, Need to Acquire Power and Cost Efficacy Drive Growth of Data Center Cooling Market
From CSEMag.com
The global data center cooling market size was evaluated at $2.58 billion for 2015 and is predicted to cross $6.0 billion by the end of the forecast period, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 11%. The growth can be contributed to an increase in proportion of data-intensive firms across the world. Growth of the information technology (IT) segment has resulted in innovation of cooling technologies, and this has contributed to the demand and growth of the industry during the forecast period.
How a Modular Data Center Can Benefit Your Business
From eWeek.com
Even the most comprehensive and meticulously designed, budgeted, tested and built data center occasionally needs to deploy additional infrastructure quickly. However, often physical space is limited, and the time and cost to build-out is prohibitive. In many cases future growth requirements are uncertain. In recent years, the initial response has been to look to the cloud. This is not surprising given that deploying additional data center resources in the cloud can be as simple as a few mouse clicks on a cloud provider’s self-service portal and a software developer or business unit manager tasked with ensuring sufficient resources are available. But moving data and applications onto third-party infrastructure isn’t ideal for all circumstances, and in those situations there is no avoiding infrastructure expansion.
Data Centers Proliferate in US, but Their Energy Use Plateaus
From ACHRNews.com
As the number of data centers continues to increase in the United States, the good news is that they are becoming much more energy efficient. A new report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that electricity consumption by data centers nationwide, after rising rapidly for more than a decade, started to plateau in 2010 and has remained steady since, at just under 2 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption.
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Examining Hyper Convergence Technology Use-Cases and Impacts on Your Data Center
From The Upsite Blog
Today, hyper-convergence allows you to utilize heterogeneous hardware systems, coupled with different hypervisors – all to deliver dynamic resources to a variety of points. Moving forward – your business will continue to depend more and more on your underlying data center. Keeping your infrastructure agile will also help you keep your competitive edge. It’s really no wonder why converged and integrated systems have been gaining so much popularity.
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