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Fresh Ideas About IT Operations
The British Computer Society (BCS) is calling on data centre operators to address growing power consumption and increased carbon emissions, in a white paper. The paper aims to develop understanding, methods and tools for the IT profession to address the cost and environmental impact of data
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7 months ago
7 months ago
You say that there are no effective standards for analysis and measurement of data center efficiency. Well actually I believe that there are, and although the data center is a highly complex environment, these measures are simultaneously useful and applicable.
I refer you to my earlier blog entry http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/05/15/how-effic... that picks up on work done by the Green Grid http://www.thegreengrid.org on PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness and DCiE (Data Center infrastructure Effectiveness) and finally CPE (Compute Power Efficiency).
The BCS article referred to in this article takes some of that work to a higher level of practicality. I strongly recommend this approach for Data Center professionals who really want to measure and manage data center power efficiency.
Steve