Blade Watch

http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/analysis/2187156/keep-energy-bills

Analyst firm Gartner recently estimated that by 2008, 50 percent of current datacentres will have insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment such as blade servers and storage arrays.

And as power requirements continue to grow, rising energy prices, combined with government-imposed levies on carbon production, will inflate utility bills to the point where they represent the second highest operating cost in 70 percent of worldwide datacentre facilities by 2009, Gartner added.

Do check out this article, how you as a business respond to this is important, yes you may have just signed up to that new datacenter, but isn’t now the time when you’re moving all your equipment to start evaluating the performance per watt?  If you’re reaching capacity what from an infrastructure angle can we do to extend the data center lifespan?  What smart things can we look at? Virtualization? Compute on demand?  Fitting water cooling?

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