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Staying Ahead of Your Energy Curve

See what Matt Stansberry has to report about Energy Efficient IT to start the new decade. In SearchDataCenter.com we found Matt reporting on an interview with our own Bob Doherty, now the principal at OMS In Your Data Center, LLC. Bob’s work continues to be a truism for the data center industry.

[Excerpt from 2010 Update]

Staying Ahead of the Data Center Efficiency Curve

This chapter addresses the following areas:

  • Power consumption trends in the data center and the effects on facility construction
  • Why energy efficiency matters to ROI and the environment
  • Who’s footing the energy bill and ways to reduce a data center’s energy footprint
  • Metrics that measure efficiency progress

Energy Efficient ITAlmost all information on data center energy efficiency today is anecdotal. Consolidating and making the data on data centers available would make decisions more accurate. It will also enable companies to take the lead on reducing their data center’s energy consumption by convincing higher-ups to be proactive about making changes now…

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Matt Stansberry has been reporting on the convergence of IT, facility management and energy issues since 2003. He has been writing and editing for SearchDataCenter.com since its launch in January 2005. Prior to that, he was managing editor of Today’s Facility Manager magazine and a staff writer for the U.S. Green Building Council. He can be reached at mstansberry@techtarget.com.

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Go Green / Save Green

letter welcome to ComputerRooms.com – an online forum for presenting and discussing Best Practices for today’s corporate data center professionals.

Greening the data center can actually reduce your budget

Greening the data center can actually reduce your budget

Do you have “green fatigue”? I hope not, because in reality the so-called Green Initiative is the most positive development for the data center industry in over thirty years. This author – along with the help from the team at OMS In Your Datacenter, LLC, who are the sponsors of this online resource – will bring you reports directly from the trenches to help you “Go Green and Save Green” by embracing the latest Data Center Best Practices that we encounter and share with you within this forum.

Our team has over 30 years experience in the management of the data center which includes implementing and validating best practices as well as the design of infrastructure and facilities. We hope you, as a data center professional and colleague, return often to this forum to share the latest green research that can actually reduce your budget while [cue the heavenly choir] saving the planet. We welcome your comments, feedback, and best practice contributions to this forum in the coming months.

(signed) Bob Doherty, Editor, ComputerRooms.com | Founder/CEO OMS In Your Data Center, LLC

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