Six energy-efficient data center practices

02.09.2011
Many data centers are up against the maximum electric power available to them from their utility. Others are facing management challenges: the amount of time to deploy new capacity, and to manage existing capacity and systems. And gains made by virtualizing and consolidating servers are often lost again as more gear is added in.

The demand for more CPU cycles and petabytes of storage won't go away. Nor will budget concerns, or the cost of power, cooling and space.

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Here's a look at how vendors, industry groups, and savvy IT and Facilities planners are meeting those challenges -- plus a few ideas that may still be a little blue-sky.

Data centers need power. Lots of it, and at a favorable price.