Cheaper way to deal with the waste heat at data centers?

by Mike Rinaldi on 12/19/11 2:26 PM

At any given moment, millions of financial transactions, e-mail, and online videos may be coursing through the circuitry of one of the massive computer server farms that have proliferated in the Internet age.  In Alfonso Ortega's thinking, it's a lot of hot air. He's not talking about spam.  

The Internet generates a huge amount of waste heat, said Ortega, a Villanova University professor of energy technology.  By some estimates, 3 percent of the nation's electricity is devoted to computer processing and data centers, enough to light up a couple of states. The cost of cooling the equipment nearly equals the cost of powering the computers that process the bits and bytes, said Ortega, who is also the college of engineering's associate dean for graduate studies and research.

"People started to pay attention when companies said, 'Wow, unbelievable, we're now eating up half of our costs just to keep this thing cool,' " he said.

Ortega's Villanova team, along with a consortium of four other universities and four area corporate partners, were recently awarded a five-year, $3.4 million grant by the National Science Foundation to study ways to improve energy usage at data centers. The effort is formally called the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in Energy-Efficient Electronic Systems.  

DVL is one of the four area corporate partners, at the forefront of the data center industry research.

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Effective way to distribute power to the racks in your data center?

by Mike Rinaldi on 12/13/11 11:11 PM

How do you distribute power to your racks or pods in your data center?

There are several options for distributing power to racks using bus solutions, depending on the reliability needed by the end user. For some end users, having dual corded loads in rack served by a single power distribution system might be adequate for their reliability needs, while others will require true dual power system (2N) redundancy.

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  • What are the reliability options for power distribution to racks and pods
  • How to configure optimally power distribution to pods of racks.
  • How to describe rack power distribution options in a consistent manner.
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Understanding the Many Paths to a Greener Data Center

by Mike Rinaldi on 12/5/11 12:48 PM

While increasing energy efficiency has been a growing initiative in data centers across the country, largely due to demands to “do more with less” in a challenging economy, an amalgamation of myths related to data center “greening” and a general lack of understanding of how to approach and achieve it has had a significant negative impact on the universal adoption of true “green IT” practices. 

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Most data center managers have no direct visibility to the data center’s total energy consumption with respect to the IT and facilities infrastructure, especially when the data center/computer room is located in a mixed-use building. Fortunately, the emergence of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions is driving a paradigm shift where the gap between IT and facility infrastructures is being bridged to offer a holistic use of resource utilization throughout the data center.

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Google Reveals Data Center Infrastructure Energy Use-Are You Cloud Ready

by Mike Rinaldi on 9/22/11 8:19 AM

Stung by concerns that using Google is bad for the planet, the Internet search giant has revealed exactly how much electricity the company uses and how much greenhouse gases it produces in an effort to show its business model is environmentally friendly.

Experts say it's true: Watching a video on Google's Youtube site is indeed more energy-efficient than watching a DVD that had to be manufactured, packaged, shipped and purchased. 

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What Are The 7 Best Practices For Increasing Data Center Availability

by Mike Rinaldi on 9/8/11 11:48 AM

data center designThe data center is one of the most dynamic and critical operations in any business. Complexity and criticality have only increased in recent years as data centers experienced steady growth in capacity and density, straining resources and increasing the consequences of poor performance.
 
Because the cost of downtime is so high, availability of IT capacity is generally the most important metric on which data centers are evaluated.  

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