• Point-to-point data center cable will cost you in the long run

  By Carrie Higbie, global director, Data Center Solutions and Services, Siemon | 01 March, 2012 04:42

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Standard proposed for measuring data center efficiency

  By Nancy Gohring | 16 July, 2010 09:33

  A group of organizations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centers to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to bring consistency to the metric and make it easier for different facilities to compare their results.

• Green Grid to release new data center efficiency tools

  By James Niccolai | 05 February, 2010 09:10

  The Green Grid Consortium will release two free tools in the coming months to help companies measure and improve the energy efficiency of their data centers.

• Intel releases power management tool for data centers

  By Agam Shah | 01 May, 2009 11:16

  Intel on Thursday announced Data Center Manager software tool kit that can reduce the power drawn by servers in data centers by tapping into hardware resources.

• Sun, wind, algae: Future data-center power sources?

  By Ann Bednarz | 26 November, 2008 07:37

  The potential for wind power in the upper Midwest United States has led some to dub the region the "Saudi Arabia of wind." But tapping that potential isn't easy. In particular, the difficulty of integrating wind power into utility companies' transmission grids is hampering adoption.

Whitepapers about data center power consumption

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  How to Manage the Data Center Power Problem

  It wasn’t that long ago that IT organizations hardly gave power a thought. But these days power is a problem. Most data centers consume too much of it — at least 10 times more per square foot than the average office building, and sometimes far more than that. What that means is companies spend roughly double the cost of running IT equipment on cooling and infrastructure. IT equipment is the single largest consumer of data center energy, so reducing the amount of equipment in your data center will certainly reduce energy costs. To keep up, companies must be able to manage and measure power consumption just as they do most every other aspect of IT. Read on.