Building the Green Data Center

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday June 21, 2008 @04:26AM 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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Xserves, xserves, and more xserves by Anonymous Coward · 2008-06-21 05:53 · Score: -1, Troll

Because one Xserve can do the work of 3-5 Dells or HP servers, lots of SMBs are racking those up.
Plus, OS XS is arguably 100% secure against remote attacks, so there is no worry about separating tasks on different machines like on Linux or Windows, where you are risking all to run your DB server on a DC.