Comments on: At the Intersection of Marketing and Metrics, the traffic lights don’t work. http://knowledge.digitalrealtytrust.com/2009/07/at-the-intersection-of-marketing-and-metrics-the-traffic-lights-dont-work/ Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:33:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ken Oestreich http://knowledge.digitalrealtytrust.com/2009/07/at-the-intersection-of-marketing-and-metrics-the-traffic-lights-dont-work/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Ken Oestreich Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:44:21 +0000 http://knowledge.digitalrealtytrust.com/2009/07/at-the-intersection-of-marketing-and-metrics-the-traffic-lights-dont-work/#comment-13 IMHO, your statement "The larger industry would be better served by focusing more on application architecture, machine utilization, virtualization, and like technologies before pushing closer to 1.0." hits the nail on the head. While PUE is a fantastic first-step for DC OPs to begin to measure efficiency, it's only a start.... since you can have a fantastic PUE and yet very poor machine utilization. I'd love to see the industry decide on a dual metric(s) - PUE, which essentially meters infrastructure efficiency, and another metric that measures compute efficiency. What do you think? IMHO, your statement “The larger industry would be better served by focusing more on application architecture, machine utilization, virtualization, and like technologies before pushing closer to 1.0.” hits the nail on the head.

While PUE is a fantastic first-step for DC OPs to begin to measure efficiency, it’s only a start…. since you can have a fantastic PUE and yet very poor machine utilization.

I’d love to see the industry decide on a dual metric(s) – PUE, which essentially meters infrastructure efficiency, and another metric that measures compute efficiency. What do you think?

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