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Is your data center protected from the backhoe on the street?
Have you ever had an unexpected loss of utilities? We think of power, but what about water? Did that impact your data center operations? How can HP help figure out which systems need to stay up, and which systems can be shut down if you have an unexpected emergency situation?
Adoption of Energy Efficiency Features in Data Centers
One of the areas I find interesting is greener data centers, and that often translates into energy efficiency - both on the power and the cooling sides. HP's Converged Infrastructure strategy includes Data Center Smart Grid which provides a framework of energy management tools for HP products. Of course, just because HP provides the tools, it doesn't mean that they are used. From that perspective, late last week, I read a couple of interesting papers.
The first, from CDW, is the 2010 Energy Efficient IT Report [Download]. They have done this study in the past few years as well, so there is some comparative data. Not surprisingly, they found that 74%of organizations (up 5% from 2009) had or were developing an energy efficiency program. The reason for this is as expected:
- 56% of the surveyed organizations reduced costs
- an additional 20% or surveyed organizations reduced usage although costs increased.
