The impact of Hurricane Sandy was an eye-opener not only for the government agencies but also for the world of technology, especially the infrastructure managers. Massive destruction of offices, major power failures combined with staff absentees made life miserable for…
Floor space reduction in IT environments has been made possible by adoption of blade servers and virtualization. These new technologies paved the way for compact data center facilities that would also appear to require less maintenance costs. Let’s have a…
The year 2012 saw increase in data center usage. And so did data center power consumption. A massive growth in power consumption figures was reported by Data Center Dynamics 2012 Global Census. This year saw power consumption grow by an…
When facility managers look to reducing the energy consumption in their data centers, they often miss a critical aspect – lighting of the facility. This is probably due to the fact that lighting consumes only 3-5% of the total electrical…
Energy costs continue to rise. It is vital for IT organizations to make sure that their operational and working infrastructures such as data centers consume power as efficiently as possible. But how do you calculate this efficiency? This is where…
