As the title indicates, since the middle of the last decade, there have been very pessimistic projections regarding the growth of the total annual energy used by data centers in the U.S. One of them suggested that by 2030, the energy consumption in the U.S. in the IT sector would be roughly 60% of that used by its entire industrial sector. [1,2,3] What was the origin of this … [Read more...]
Ten Common Data Center Surprises
Emerson Network Power released a list of 10 common surprises for data center and IT managers and offered tips on how to be prepared for them. Those high-density predictions finally are coming true: After rapid growth early in the century, projections of double-digit rack densities have been slow to come to fruition. Average densities hovered between 6.0 and 7.4 kW per rack … [Read more...]
Data Center Technology Controls Temp by Moving Software Workloads
Facebook is exploring a technology that controls temperatures in the data center by automatically moving software workloads among servers according to the air pressure on either side of each machine. The system uses a load balancer to shift tasks among servers based on their particular “cooling needs,” which are related to air pressure in the data center. The idea is to keep … [Read more...]
New Data Center Infrastructure Management Software
Raritan introduced dcTrack® 2.6 DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) software with new intelligent connectivity management capabilities to help data center professionals manage both network and power connections more efficiently. With better visibility of end-to-end connections of data center infrastructure resources, untapped capacity can be discovered and used -- … [Read more...]
Wireless Shortcut to Avoid Data Center Traffic Jams
To better handle data center congestion, researchers are testing a shortcut that doesn’t involve costly rewiring. They are experimenting with wireless links, mounted atop the server racks, to supply extra bandwidth for moving data along at crunch times. The Microsoft team forged ahead with the project, building and testing a system with tiny directional antennas at the top of … [Read more...]
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