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http://www.itpro.co.uk/servers/news/113698/turn-off-servers-to-go-green-experts-plead.html

European companies need to follow their Japanese counterparts in tackling datacentre space, power, and heat issues by switching servers off every evening, according to an expert.

Bernhard Brandwitte, director of enterprise servers product marketing at Fujitsu Siemens Computers said that turning off servers could save the expense of running systems.

“It may seem radical because organisations are told never to touch a running system. However, organisations can use combined storage devices to switch off the processing core and save money,” he said.

Interesting comments, hasn’t someone said something similar before? It’s not bad advice..

There’s a lot to be said for looking at the big picture, your infrastructure as a whole, and picking at the bits you can fix to gain energy savings or cabinet space. Looking at SAN boot, or all data SAN based can be a great way of reducing the number of disks you have, thereby reducing the energy they generate and their cooling requirements.

Replacing your file server infrastructure with a filer can bring great savings, decommissioning the legacy infrastructure through consolidation and virtualization is also a great winner. Removing all the second power supplies from the non-production servers, they really need dual power supplies, twice the power requirement?

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