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The growth in energy demanded by, and used in, IT environments is a well documented phenomenon. Datacenters are using more energy as CPUs get faster, hard drives become larger, and end user demand for access to data and applications continues to increase. Prices for the underlying hardware and services continue to fall, which just fuels more demand.

Datacenter operators have done their best to maximize the use of every available asset within a facility in order to operate highly efficient environments. Much of the emphasis to date has been on proper datacenter alignment: hot-aisle/cold-aisle configurations, blanking panels to cover gaps in server racks, and sealing holes under raised floors to better contain cold air have become common place in the data center.

Check out this interesting article which is talking about energy utilization in the data center and has some interest comments. Taking the big approach to power utilization examining each of the components of the data center has to be the way forward, from the way you provision storage, ‘supply a server’, to the server configuration, the network etc, do check it out.

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