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Uptime warns data center pros against being benchmarked on PUE
Uptime Institute executive director Ken Brill warned panelists at an online seminar today to be wary of very low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratios touted by some data center operators. “If your...
View ArticleKey points to consider in the evolution of the PUE data center metric
Yesterday I blogged about the Uptime Institute’s criticisms of PUE, specifically that the Green Grid metrics whitepaper does not explicitly discuss the need to gather PUE data over time. Microsoft’s...
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Green Grid publishes data center utilization tool
The Green Grid has another tool for data centers to measure their companies’ efficiency, saying it could be a valuable way to communicate with upper management on the state of the data center. The IT...
View ArticleASHRAE and Green Grid team up to standardize data center energy monitoring...
I recently spoke with Roger Schmidt, distinguished IBM technologist and past chairman of The American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Technical Committee 9.9...
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