Tag Archives | Data Center Efficiency

Japan Betters PUE at Data Centers

By on April 14, 2010 in Breaking News, Community Manager, CRM/ERP/ETL, Data Center, Green Technology, Information Technology, Software

Although the power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is not without its problems, it is the de facto standard for measuring energy efficiency in a data center. Japan’s Green IT Promotion Council  wants to improve on PUE with its own metric, data center performance per energy (DPPE). The council (GIPC) wants to make this metric the [...]

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Metering and Measuring at Data Centers, Arch Rock’s Way

By on December 28, 2009 in Community Manager, Data Center

After I bumped into the same person three times in a row in October at data center–related conferences and other events, I decided that something or someone must be telling me I need to spend more time with him. Tom Canning is a data center consultant at Arch Rock, which manufactures sensors for buildings and [...]

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Trends in Data Centers

By on July 23, 2009 in Community Manager, Data Center, Green Technology

I attended a seminar by Digital Realty Trust (DRT) with Emerson/Liebert and a conference by Datacenter Dynamics last week. I will focus on each subject more in detail in future blogs, but in this blog I would like to cover a set of overall trends. Those readers who follow my blogs may not find a [...]

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