Efficient Enterprise Servers

The EPA is engaging industry in collaboration on revision of its EnergyStar specification for servers. The final draft is posted here (PDF). Comments on this revision are due by May 8 (this Friday). ...

... "Enterprise Servers: EPA is currently developing a new product specification for enterprise servers. Partners and other interested parties who would like to participate in this process are encouraged ... " ...

Via US Environmental Protection Agency: ENERGY STAR Specification for Enterprise Servers

Night of the Living Dead

Finish that upgrade or implementation project? Didja retire the legacy system or infrastructure that it replaced? Oops. You've got zombies. And, they're costing you ... big-time. ...

... "I'm talking about zombie servers, machines that, for whatever reason, have been left in the rack, powered on but doing very little or no work whatsoever. " ...

Via InfoWorld: Slay your zombies

IT Project Consideration: Data Center Power Consumption

Hardware, software, internal and external labor go into any analysis of IT project investments. The impact of new hardware investments on the data center power consumption needs to be considered in order to plan cooling and energy capacity requirements. ...

... "Power and thermal demands are changing drastically within server rooms, he says. Any IT project these days has to consider heat density as an important factor. " ...

Data Center Energy Consumption