Are there any tools to manage and monitor power consumption in the data centre environment?
LG: Energy companies are keen for us to be able to manage and monitor power use. Identifying the power that organisations are using enables them to make savings that way. There are lots of tools for assessing and looking at how efficient your data centre is, and to manage and monitor that. Unfortunately, in most instances what it will show is that the data centre isn’t working that efficiently, and that you have a lot of wasted resource that you have purchased and should be benefiting from. There are management tools and measuring tools from all angles, available from the energy companies down to suppliers such as VMware, but it’s about finding that balance. If the EU takes the lead in saving energy and reducing emissions, will this just cause businesses to relocate operations to countries that are less enthusiastic in pursuing these policies? FR: In the UK, and the EU as well, we are trying to act as thought leaders in the world. In many ways we are responsible for the climate change
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