I mean that. Seriously, your PUE doesn’t impress me much and frankly the rest of the data center community isn’t all that concerned either. Now I am not about to suggest you stop measuring your PUE or stop reporting it internally and to the Green Grid and EPA ENERGY STAR® for data… Continue reading
Expanding the Data Center Envelope with PUE, WUE, CUE, and Exaflops
The good news as we prepare to enter the last few months of 2011 and start to develop our wish-list of projects for 2012: the data center industry is doing fairly well as a whole in driving improvements in energy … Continue reading
More Robust Applications – The Missing Link to Server Power Management?
A few weeks ago we explored the concept for a new metric – Idle Effectiveness Ratio that looks at your ICT device’s idle energy consumption in comparison to its peak energy consumption with the goal of driving down the stand-by energy losses … Continue reading
A Logical Approach to Managing Energy Consumption
Not too long ago I was speaking with a senior executive at a leading financial firm about the seemingly explosive growth in data centers, especially within the e-commerce, search, and social media space yet there wasn’t an obvious correlation within the … Continue reading
Beware the Gilded PUE Claim
The ‘success’ of PUE in changing behaviors in data center operations and management is being overwhelmed by the almost daily barrages of absurdly low PUE claims, engineering studies, and PR tomfoolery. It seems if you aren’t able to report a … Continue reading