IBM has released a cooling gadget for data-centres that's designed to extend the abilities of existing air conditioning systems while saving space and money. The company's "Cool Blue" component (officially known as the IBM eServer Rear Door Heat...
Resilience can be built in and the whole unit engineered for optimum cooling. Energy costs might not be the direct responsibility of the IT department but with oil prices soaring, and governments obliging companies to cut down on carbon emissions...
Peter Pedersen, CTO at Rank Group, said: "Virtualisation is very much a priority to reduce cost, to increase agility, reduce space requirement and to reduce 'carbon footprint' through reduction in power utilisation for both equipment and cooling.
Within the IT data centre, the biggest expenditures are on power and cooling, alongside human resources. Rationalising hardware and consolidating data centres are definitely ways of lowering power utilisation, to a small extent, but the messages...
Other parameters include heat production and, consequently, the energy invested in data centre cooling. Nevertheless, the saving in kilowatt hours gives companies a useful starting point for a conversation with its energy provider over carbon...
Powering and cooling of IT equipment can be done more efficiently in a data centre than in an uncontrolled environment. A lot can also be done in the data centre to reduce, or more effectively manage, electricity consumption, from simple steps such...
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