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100% Pure Software Energy Consumption Monitoring – Reduce costs: avoid wasting time in an over-costly power-meter deployment Monitor the energy usage of all servers and devices, with no power-meter deployment

Behind every Google search, Facebook update, online bank check or rant on a blog is a data center crammed with servers, switches and storage devices feed in electricity by a power plant.

And as Moore’s law predicted that computer-processing speed would double every 18 to 24 months, energy consumption by the data centers keeps increasing, too. It doubled between 2001 and 2006 and – unless energy efficiency becomes a priority – will do so again by 2011, according to a study conducted in 2007 by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Today, server rooms host racks of IT equipments that are more and more in the form of server farms, like high-density chassis full of so-called “blade” that draw between 4000 and 10,000 watts. No need to mention the additional cost of the energy consumed by the storage devices behind. Given the price of electricity, the energy cost of a blade chassis with a dozen blade servers is between $4000 and $10,000 a year.

Energy consumption in the data center represents a rising operational cost, but enterprises need to better :
If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.

Lord Kelvin

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