Reliability ranks first in data center management – but it shouldn’t obscure the need to be energy efficient. Smart organizations can reduce energy-related operating costs and environmental impact while still maintaining zero-downtime data facilities.



Data center managers have a number of options – in equipment, software and operating practices – to improve their facilities’ efficiency. They include:

• Applying operating standards that reflect the higher temperatues at which today’s data-handling equipment can operate.

• Using sensor technology and smart design to deliver cooling precisely where required, help right-size cooling equipment, and fine-tune cooling towers, chillers, and air handlers to match data center cooling needs.

• Choosing smaller, more energy efficient computing equipment.

• Consolidating data centers and the servers inside them to improve utilization rates and reduce cooling loads.

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November 2013