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Building the Green Data Center

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bang-for-the-buck dept.

blackbearnh writes "O'Reilly News talked to Bill Coleman, former founder of BEA and current founder and CEO of Cassett Corporation, about the challenges involved in building more energy-efficient data centers. Coleman's company is trying to change the way resources in the data center are used, by more efficiently leveraging virtualization to utilize servers to a higher degree. In the interview, Coleman touches on this topic, but spends most of his time discussing how modern data centers grossly overcool and overdeploy hardware, leading to abysmal levels of efficiency."

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  1. Hm, good summary by MrMr · · Score: 2, Funny

    by more efficiently leveraging virtualization to utilize servers to a higher degree
    I should have printed a fresh stack of these.

  2. Four steps to a green data center by harry666t · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Get a data center
    2. Paint it green
    3. ???
    4. Cthulhu

  3. Re:Lean Code = Green Code by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Messy, heavy code takes longer to run, takes more CPUs, etc.

    Do you guys have to bring Vista into every thread?

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    That is all.