by Angela Guess
Clemens Pfeiffer reports, “The way large enterprises, government agencies and managed service providers analyze and utilize energy in their data centers will undergo some fairly substantial changes over the next five years. Some organizations are already struggling with increased power demands in the face of constrained capacity caused by both inefficient equipment and stranded power. The situation is understandable, as most data centers were designed to emphasize performance and availability, with little attention paid to how efficiently the data center would deliver on those objectives.”
He continues, “The days of being able to take power for granted in the data center are coming to an end, however. Gone will be the costly operating model where all assets, including servers, lighting and cooling, are powered at full capacity 24×7. The new operating model will match server capacity with demand in real-time, and energy efficiency will become a key consideration for all data center assets. Here are 12 trends that data center and facility managers can expect to see beginning in 2012.”
