A 1U server, running 24×7, produces more emmisions than a Toyota Camry driving 15,000 miles per year. According to Cisco calculations. Regardless of the maths, most of the industry is getting pretty hot on the environmental issues with IT. Vendors and customers alike have been impacted by regulations like RoHS and WEE, which deal with the cradle and the grave impacts of kit, now the spotlight is on the power that gets used in between.
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Energy Efficiency in the Data Center
Posted by Benjamin in Thursday, August 21st 2008
Topics: Green IT, Storage, dc, feature Tags: Cisco, CO2, Doug Gourlay, EMC, Gartner, John Morley, Marcello Hunter, Rob Aldrich, Robb Boyd, VMWare
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