Who is facing power consumption, cooling issues within their server/data-center environment?
This was selected as Best Answer Everyone faces these issues to some extent. In some caases there is little to do other than add more power and cooling capacity or move to another data center, but for most there are a lot of things that can be done, especially that technology has matured a lot in offerings for these areas. Key items to look at in reducing your heat and power load: 1. More efficient processors (those that use less power and put off less heat. Wintel servers have alot of offerings in these areas, and most UNIX offerings even offer this as they move from PA-RISC to other types of CPUs. 2. Blade Servers are can help a lot with space issues and can even help power consumption and cooling, depending on what you are replacing. 3. Rack spacing if you have room can help with circulation and help cooling cost. 4. The biggest potential for helping this is by improving the efficiency of your servers through virtualization. Either using a market leader like VMware (for WIN32 and Li
