How hot or full is your data center?

April 17th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

http://www.techworld.com/green-it/news/index.cfm?newsid=11998

Nearly half of IT professionals admit that they had run out of space, power or cooling capacity at their datacentres, according to a recent survey.

That was among the startling findings of a new study called Lean & Green - Reducing IT Energy Drain for Business

Gain, conducted by the Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum.
Sponsored by network storage vendor BlueArc, the study surveyed 150 IT professionals (70 percent of respondents were

VP level or above, with nearly 30 percent C-level and 10 percent CEOs) to discover the issues surrounding the use of green technologies within datacentres.

Check out this interesting article talking about data center power and cooling, it’s an interesting read. Is this where we talk about fresh air cooling? Changing the temperature of the data center, using SAN technologies and virtualization more? We’ll have to see, ultimately whatever technical and non-technical resolutions work for you is all that matters, everything else is noise.

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