Talking about data center efficiency
Data Centers pose a problem when it comes to being energy efficient. Servers are on all day, every day and are expected to perform with a speed and reliability that we rarely expect from any other service. As a result, they generate tremendous amounts of heat and consume tremendous amounts of power. However, there are solutions that have come out within the past few years that make it possible to use less power while still meeting everyone’s expectations.
Check out this article, it’s talking about data center energy efficiency and raised some interesting points. My idea of the next generation data center is one in which we talk of the service as the data center, where we fail over data centers, we fail workloads over between data centers on demand - where short term capacity requirements might mean powering a data center online in Korea, China or Brazil for the batch to finish. A situation where the data center is the networks, the server and the storage.


