Comments on: James Hamilton on Improving PUE http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/15/james-hamilton-on-improving-pue/ 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: Operation Green » Blog Archive » Tech giants push the green data center http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/15/james-hamilton-on-improving-pue/comment-page-1/#comment-7793 Operation Green » Blog Archive » Tech giants push the green data center Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:19:18 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=11806#comment-7793 [...] PUE, lower is better. According to this blog post on DataCenter Knowledge, an average PUE of 2.0 indicates that the IT equipment uses about 50 percent of the power to the [...] [...] PUE, lower is better. According to this blog post on DataCenter Knowledge, an average PUE of 2.0 indicates that the IT equipment uses about 50 percent of the power to the [...]

]]> By: mark macauley http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/15/james-hamilton-on-improving-pue/comment-page-1/#comment-4212 mark macauley Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:49:45 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=11806#comment-4212 I have had issues with PUE, metered power, and any other measurement as I equate the development of the yardsticks with which we are measured with legislation - those who write it don't 'get' it from an operations perspective. My personal belief is that you pick whatever measurement you want to use ind IMPROVE it. Your facilities, your yardstick, your numbers. You either get better and more efficient or you don't. I have had issues with PUE, metered power, and any other measurement as I equate the development of the yardsticks with which we are measured with legislation – those who write it don’t ‘get’ it from an operations perspective.

My personal belief is that you pick whatever measurement you want to use ind IMPROVE it. Your facilities, your yardstick, your numbers. You either get better and more efficient or you don’t.

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