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Are Mission Critical Facilities Getting Greener?

Mission critical facilities for IT are certainly getting bigger, but does that mean they are ecologically

friendlier too?

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As size goes up, and power consumption and heat generation too, it might be

optimistic to think that in absolute terms data centers had a lower impact on the

planet than before.In relative terms, however, technologies

are making it possible to become greener in several ways.



Greener Power Generation•Data centers providing mission critical facilities need uninterrupted power.• Some independent, low-carbon-footprint sources have excellent capabilities for protecting data centers from the hazards of power station outages or power line damage. •As data centers worldwide are already using over 30 billion watts of electricity (enough to power 30 million toasters!), the greener the supply, the better.Sponsored by

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Smaller Power Appetites at Mission Critical Facilities

• If each data center uses less power while still ensuring availability and performance, the effect on the environment will (relatively speaking) diminish further.•Power and cooling of IT equipment are two big factors.




IT equipment can save on power (and therefore on cooling) by:1. Virtualization2. Storage3. Network Adapters4. Power-Efficient Processors




1. Virtualization:•Applications are shared out between servers in a group, allowing the total number of servers to be reduced and offering mission critical advantages in terms of overall robustness and availability.




2. Storage:•Hard disk size and speed can be selected for the optimal balance between performance and power savings. •Smaller disks can save on electricity without compromising performance. •Slower spinning disks save on power too. Flash memory avoids the issue altogether.Sponsored by




3. Network Adapters:•They can be greener by consolidating more ports onto fewer adapters and avoiding over-dimensioning port speeds. •Consolidation works to reduce power consumption for storage adapters too.




4. Power-Efficient Processors:•By no means new, but still a source of power savings, built-in management lets processors run more economically in idle mode.



Smarter Cooling•Good cooling designs that channel air properly not only save money on cooling but also avoid the overheating problems that are the bane of mission critical facilities in the first place.•These designs need to be updated with each internal reconfiguration of a data center, as system room dimensions change, and hot aisle and cold aisle locations with them.Sponsored by



Better Management is the Key

Data center technologies and equipment already allow greener

operations, many of which enhance overall availability and

performance.



Better Management is the Key

The next challenge is the proper management of those resources,

both at the time of initial construction of facilities and

throughout their lifecycles and changes afterward.



How do you see mission critical facilities getting

greener?



Share your favorite green strategy in the Comments

below.



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