There's a maxim in the data center business that holds that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with a new metric designed to make it easier to measure -- and therefore manage -- data center performance. The ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a ...
A global taskforce comprising government authorities and industry body The Green Grid have selected three new metrics to improve a datacentre's energy-efficiency. The metrics are Green Energy Coefficient (GEC), Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) and ...
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Green data centres may have gone out of fashion as a topic of conversation, but rising energy costs, increasing demand for computing power, environmental concerns, and economic pressures are continuing to drive the market. The data centre ...
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Meaningful cloud computing standards are crucial to improve the maturity of cloud-based services and bring increased flexibility, security and interoperability, but too many competing standards could wreak damage, warned the Cloud Industry ...
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The European Commission(EC)and datacentre industry consortium The Green Grid are collaborating on policies to improve efficiency in datacentres. Non-profit industry lobby group The Green Grid includes datacentre users,policy ...
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The Datacentre Maturity Model(DCMM)tool can help businesses improve datacentre energy efficiency,hence their Power Usage Effectiveness(PUE),according to not-for-profit organisation The Green Grid. The free DCMM tool allows datacentre ...
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IT must move beyond just measuring a datacentre's energy efficiency and power consumption to assessing its overall environmental impact to make meaningful changes and ensure IT facilities are truly sustainable. As businesses come under ...
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Datacentre managers'perception of IT equipment's tolerance to heat and humidity dates back to the 1950s,resulting in a waste of energy resources,according to the Green Grid–a not-for-profit industry consortium for datacentre ...
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CIO-There are a lot of myths about Canada-most related to the country's climate-but these misconceptions actually leave some wondering if Canada might be a good location for a data center. Why Canada Is on the Data Center Radar Michel ...
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