energy efficiency FACILITIES
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Energy efficiency for co-location, cloud and hosted IT environments
The ever-expanding and changing digital society has not only spurred the growth and proliferation of data centres touching every facet of daily life, but has also caused the evolution of the data centre itself. A new breed of “Customer 2.0” who wants to be connected 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and demands more, higher quality data and connectivity together with internet applications delivered as a service. By Matthew Baynes, enterprise sales director, Schneider Electric
BY AND LARGE, this emerging demand is being met by a new breed of data centre service provision through cloud, co-location and multi- tenant hosting. While traditional co-location supplies resilient facility infrastructure and related services for customers to manage their own IT equipment, the new breed can provide services at all three layers of a cloud: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Cloud providers can provide services ranging from outsourcing of all infrastructure and applications to a hybrid model that enables organizations to keep their computing resources in-house and leverage additional resources when needed.
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www.dcseurope.info I February 2014 Why energy efficiency?
In any data centre, the benefits of an energy efficient design and operation of infrastructure and systems for both the facility and IT will reduce costs (both CapEx and OpEx), and help organisations adhere to industry standards and government regulations. When smart energy management is added through strategies such as right-sizing equipment, optimising the environment and proper planning, all data centre service providers have a recipe for a successful, lucrative and efficient business.
Reasons for data centre energy inefficiency When it comes to data centres, a slew of likely suspects contribute
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