Data Center Cooling Constraints

According to the Uptime Institute, 42% of DC Mgrs expected to run out of power capacity within 12-24 months.

In addition Gartner highlight that 70 percent of CIO's are reporting that power and/or cooling issues are now their single largest problem in the data center estimating that 50 percent of data centers in 2008 will have insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet demand.

Research by The Green Grid identifies IT equipment (servers and storage) as the largest consumers of power in the data center at 30%.

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All in all this points to challenging times for organizations. Tideway believe that the most pragmatic solution is for organizations to replace the highest power consuming servers with more efficient newer models. But spotting these servers is not easy a scale and once they are found there is the knock on implications of considering the dependencies on these servers.

Tideway Foundation and Hardware Reference Data is a potential solution for organizations seeking a fast and pragmatic approach. Each month as part of its Tideway Knowledge Update release, Tideway releases manufacturers' specification data for: rack size, heat output, and power consumption for the most common server models discovered in customer environments.

Listed below is content that can help you address data center power constraint issues:

 

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