Comments on: Belady: Metrics Key to ‘Crisis’ Response http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/03/28/belady-metrics-key-to-crisis-response/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Matthew Toback http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/03/28/belady-metrics-key-to-crisis-response/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Matthew Toback Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:12:41 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/03/28/belady-metrics-key-to-crisis-response/#comment-64 It seems as though many data center operators have recently perked their heads out of the sand and started concerning themselves with data like this. Our Data Center Edition product is tailored towards larger web hosting companies, and the demand for reporting & metrics on power consumption and environmental monitoring in the last 6 months alone has been staggering. On the flip side, it also consistently amazes us how many large, facilities-based hosting companies do not have any sort of handle on these issues yet! It almost seems as though the rely on their servers overheating as a thermometer. ;-) It seems as though many data center operators have recently perked their heads out of the sand and started concerning themselves with data like this. Our Data Center Edition product is tailored towards larger web hosting companies, and the demand for reporting & metrics on power consumption and environmental monitoring in the last 6 months alone has been staggering.

On the flip side, it also consistently amazes us how many large, facilities-based hosting companies do not have any sort of handle on these issues yet! It almost seems as though the rely on their servers overheating as a thermometer. ;-)

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