Power and cooling heat up the datacentre
- Posted:
- 17:01 23 Oct 2007
After a brief day in the sun in the late ’90s, concerns about power and cooling as critical limitations in the enterprise datacentre and corporate IT strategy faded into obscurity along with the dot-com economy. Over the past two years, however, as energy prices have soared and servers have grown denser and hotter, power and cooling have once again become critical issues. Improving energy efficiency and solving the problems generated by increasingly dense server form factors is a community effort that requires contributions from semiconductor, system, software, and datacentre operation vendors.