42U Datacenter Trends: Building a Cost-Effective Power Strategy for your Data Center.

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Datacenter Trends: September 2007

What is your strategy for providing efficient power protection and distribution for growing loads, while simultaneously managing costs?

It’s no secret that as data centers increasingly deploy high-density computing platforms such as blade-server technology, power density, energy efficiency, and cooling are becoming highly critical requirements.

If you manage, engineer, or are responsible for planning future changes within your data center or network operations center, you are already aware of the critical issues that these platforms can have on your operations, including:

Expanding power demands. Today's blade servers are certainly satisfying growing business demands, but can also have a significant impact on the demands for power consumption within the same footprint.

Increasing power costs. Utility rates have a common recurrence. They always go up. IDC research reports that energy costs represent a dominant influence on IT spending.⁽¹⁾

Excessive heat. Blade servers generate a lot of heat–translating into a high demand for additional cooling capacity. A fully loaded rack of blade servers can use close to 30kW of power.

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