Designing Green Datacenters

Overview

Until the knock of environment friendly concepts and public concerns, traditional datacenters had fixed their eye on maximum uptime. Times have changed and datacenters are concentrating on conserving energy. This paper provides some tips that can contribute towards building eco-friendly datacenters. It ends saying that it's important to keep a track on the uptime and usage patterns of the datacenter. It basically allows the IT managers to accurately measure the effectiveness of the changes. Moreover, it also assists the top level management to decide on green energy solutions to reduce or eliminate their carbon footprints.