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How to cut costs in the data centre – monitor power usage

Running a data centre is an expensive affair. Not only do you have to provide power to racks of servers you also have to power the air conditioning that keeps those servers operating at optimum temperatures. Indeed, it is estimated that almost half the power used within a data centre facility is expended on air conditioning.

Recently IT efficiency organisation Green Grid highlighted the availability of metrics that allow data centre operators to be able to monitor and optimise power usage within their facility, enabling them to cut costs and also contribute to greener

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What is a data centre?

Data centre is the room where the servers are stored. Others visualize quite a different picture. It is true that at one time, the data centre was little more than a secure server room. However with technological advances and data centric businesses of today the term could better be expressed as a “mission critical data centre”. Business models have gone through a complete cycle from centralized data centres to decentralized and now back to centralized. Businesses realize that data is their strongest asset and as such are

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