1 In 3 Data Center Servers Is a Zombie

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 21, 2015 @02:19AM 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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Obviously by penguinoid · 2015-06-21 03:01 · Score: 5, Insightful

Those are the servers hosting Slashdot's new "share" button. No one's ever clicked on it.

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Re:Zombies or fail over? by slydder · 2015-06-21 03:21 · Score: 5, Informative

I've been in IT Management for 15+ and I can assure you it is a good thing you are not in management. I would lose my job in a heartbeat if production server decided to take a dump and I had shut off all our fail-over servers.
It's not just a matter of what those fail-over servers costs. It's the question "Can we afford (financially) to NOT have fail-over servers?". If you stand to lose more due to a production server failure than the cost of running a fail-over for a year then you will not EVER wish to be caught without one.

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