Making the data center greener

June 19th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

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Companies don’t need to build a whole new datacentre to begin saving on energy. Below are some steps recommended by Burton Group analyst Andrew Kutz that enterprises can take in their existing datacentres to save on power consumption:

Check out this article talking about reducing energy consumption in the data center. The key one for me is looking at the air flow within the data center, checking how efficient the cooling you have is, where the hot pockets of air are and how we can reduce this. Could simply changing the layout, aid the air flow allowing me to turn down the amount of cooling needed? At the same time, of equal importance is the temperature of the data center, by raising it ever so slightly, could we not reduce our cooling/operational costs significantly? In terms of the hardware reliability argument, you might find any increase in the support cost is offset by the savings through reduced energy consumption.

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