Data center power problems solved in the next few years?

April 29th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4935

Worried about power costs in your data center? Feeling squeezed by the power company? Dreaming of modular designs and airflow at night? Well, relief is on the way–in four years or so.

This is the bright side–Gartner style. On Thursday, Gartner analyst Michael Bell outlined a few data center tips and factoids worth considering. Among the nuggets at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo:

I remember speaking to a data center manager about 18 months ago, and he said that we’re at the high point of the curve right now, the processors are getting faster, the servers are needing a little more power, the generation after the current ones should bring as back to a more level playing field, interestingly, this article says the same kind of thing, that the processor, the infrastructure is on its way to more energy efficient platforms, this should make life easier from a power and data center management standpoint, in the meantime, we just need to work within the constaints, consider virtualization/consolidation and look at energy efficient server technologies.

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