Energy efficiency and data center sustainability meet as Digital Realty Trust and a leading chip maker develop a plan for a new data center.
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First let me start out with the fact that the need for datacenter measurement is paramount if this industry is to be able to manage itself effectively. When I give a talk I usually begin by asking the crowd three basic questions
1) How many in attendance are monitoring and tracking electrical usage?
2) How many in attendance measure datacenter efficiency?
3) How many work for organizations in which the CIO looks at the power bills?
The response to these questions has been abysmally low for years, but I have been delighted by the fact that slowly but surely, the numbers have been rising. Not in great numbers mind you, but incrementing. We are approaching a critical time in the development of the data center industry and where it (and the technologies involved) will go. » Continue
Just in case anyone wanted to connect – I wanted to highlight that I will be co-presenting the keynote at the Schneider Symposium at the Millenium Broadway hotel in New York City with Chris Crosby of Digital Realty Trust. I will also be giving a talk on practical applications of Energy Efficiency and sitting on an Energy Efficiency panel led by Dan Golding from Tier One Research. The program kicks off at 8am on Wednesday. Feel free to stop and say hi!
[This note was cross-posted from http://loosebolts.wordpress.com]
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Chris Crosby, Digital Realty Trust Senior Vice President, discusses the “Myth of Modularity”.
