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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/10/26/227762/measure-servers-against-cost-of-power-and-cooling-to-cut-energy-bills-says.htm

Businesses will be spending as much on powering and cooling datacentres as they do on servers unless they improve monitoring of equipment in datacentres, Gartner has warned.

“There are no current metrics to compare how much more energy efficient one datacentre is with another, but managers need to get a stake in the ground about how much energy consumption is rising in line with the processing power they are adding,” said analyst Rakesh Kumar.

Kumar said that datacentres should monitor the number of blade servers they are adding to datacentres to make sure gains in processing power are not being offset by increases in energy costs.

Check out this article, it’s an interesting read.

Managing your data center power and cooling remains a topic of debate, it’s not just about virtualizing and consolidating the windows or linux server estate. Being able to monitor the power,to control the data center as you would your network is where we want to be, the idea of failing over not applications and infrastructure, but data center – could we ever achieve failing business lines, applications and data centers to follow the cheapest power as we follow the markets?

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