Notes from the Consultant's Jungle

As a bit of background and at the risk of stating the obvious, let’s quickly review some basics about energy efficiency and the Data Center.  It has been estimated that on average, electricity costs account for over 40% of data center operational expenses.  In 2006, American data centers consumed more electricity than all the televisions [...]

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We’ve discussed the topic of data center energy management in numerous posts, and we’ve talked about a Green Data Center Maturity Model.¬† If the topic of energy efficiency in the data center is of interest to you (and it should be) I’d like to recommend an excellent resource for you. Cisco is conducting a webinar [...]

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I promised an update on the progress of the ship-based data center concept floated (yes a pun) by International Data Security (IDS).¬† A recent post on Silverback’s blog explains that the first launch (perhaps a pun) is now delayed until Q3 of 2008, and gives a few more details. IDS continues to see the ship-based [...]

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In these times of economic stagnation, IT leaders’ attention turns to cost savings.   Indeed in times like these, the CFO is likely exerting strong authority and demanding budget concessions from departments across the enterprise. Many companies are aggressively consolidating data centers as one way to address this demand.   There are a number of [...]

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