Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Michigan say that huge cost savings that could be achieved if servers' power usage could be dramatically lowered when they become idle.
SynapSense has raised $7 million in additional investment, the company said today, and will use the money to further develop its wireless energy sensors and expand beyond its core market in the data center sector.
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is expanding its benchmarks to include power consumption, providing a way for data center managers to compare price, performance and energy efficiency.
Bookmark alert: The Sacramento Bee has created an information graphic that provides a visual guide to free cooling concepts, illustrating how air flows through a data center.
The HVAC industry group ASHRAE has expanded its recommendations for ambient data center termperatures, raising its upper limit from 77 degrees to 80.6 degrees.