Looking at the data center

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Data center managers are not going “green” out of benevolence to the environment and society. It’s all about keeping costs low. In this tip, I will explore various data center technologies that claim to improve efficiency and indicate those that are cost effective; saving money from the bottom line of the operations.

Check out this post talking about which data center tactics provide the best value, it raises some great points particularly in terms of raising the temperature of the data center. Ideally we would be looking at the data center in combination with the application, so that we are covering both angles in terms of consolidating and virtualizing the application and business services, and putting those services on the most efficient servers in an optimized data center.

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