Data Center Power Requirements: Calculating Your Current Efficiency
Denver, CO - Broomfield, CO - January 10, 2008 -- IT environments have undergone significant changes as server densities have risen dramatically over the past decade. Servers require increasingly high levels of power and cooling resources, and IT managers and personnel need new metrics for measuring and improving data center efficiency.
Calculating your data centers Coefficient of Efficiency (CoE) offers a valuable baseline and provides insight into your facilitys power usage which can help you:
Make the best use of existing cooling resources Increase cooling capacity Allow for data center growth and accommodate new IT equipment Improve equipment reliability by reducing data center hot spots Reduce energy bills and operating costsTo download this best pratice brief, go to: http://www.42u.com/data-center-power-requirements.htm.
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