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Many data center managers are indifferent to the EPA’s new Energy Star program for servers, saying they’re unsure of the impact — if any — the server specification will have on their purchasing decisions.

Pete Simpson, the data center operations director at Indianapolis-based insurance claims company Real Med Corp., said the Energy Star rating is “irrelevant” to him.

“The major manufacturers will all produce compliant equipment as they rev their products, so over time these will become standard features of all but the el-cheapo white-box server manufacturers,” Simpson said. Besides, being “green” isn’t a company priority right now; more important factors are reliability, processing power, and memory access times, among other things.

“We currently have plenty of power and cooling capacity, so I’m not up against a wall for more power efficiency and less heat load,” he said.

Another great article from the techtarget team. The energy star thing is not world changing, but it’s a start, it might make server professionals and business users think about the energy footprint of their server when looking at buying or renting a server. Can the value be taken out of context, yes, but then I suspect as with everything, it will be business requirement or budget first, everything else is secondary. We need to couple this with further best practice as an industry in systems management, in configuration, billing and process, taking in the big picture and working on IT, not just the individual components.

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