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1 In 3 Data Center Servers Is a Zombie

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-my-neighborhood dept.

dcblogs writes with these snippets from a ComputerWorld story about a study that says nearly a third of all data-center servers are are comatose ("using energy but delivering no useful information"). What's remarkable is this percentage hasn't changed since 2008, when a separate study showed the same thing. ... A server is considered comatose if it hasn't done anything for at least six months. The high number of such servers "is a massive indictment of how data centers are managed and operated," said Jonathan Koomey, a research fellow at Stanford University, who has done data center energy research for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "It's not a technical issue as much as a management issue."

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  1. Re: Sounds about right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like this comment.
    Crap, now it's 2 out of 3.