Suppose there are 4,000 servers in a data center for Company ABC. These servers may have been installed at different times, and not together, in the same month or week. A typical server has a maintenance cost of nearly $2,000…
IT professionals implementing energy efficient solutions in the data center are realizing big savings, and many report it has been easier to do than they thought it would be. In its fourth year, the CDW Energy Efficient IT Report found…
To build and operate the modern day data center is definitely an expensive feat! But you need to understand all the costs associated with building an operating a data center. TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) encompasses the sum total of…
Servers in data centers waste a substantial amount of energy. The reason is that servers are deployed and configured for peak capacity, performance and reliability, usually at the expense of efficiency. Such waste unnecessarily increases capital and operational expenditures, and…
Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming By: Rich Miller The Google data center in Belgium, which features no chillers and routes traffic to other facilities during hot spells. Raising the temperature in server racks can make a…
