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Infrastructure and Design Tips
to Help your Data Center to Go
Green
ata Centers are the factories not cause any sort of damage to the is simply occupying space and
of the 21st centuries. environment and human health. consuming energy.
DData Centers houses a
lot of digital and mechanical Following are some of the Data
equipment’s. Data Centers do center infrastructure tips, which Virtualize Your Storage:
not pollute the environment by help your data centers, go green.
emitting polluting fumes into the Access your Energy Efficiency: Virtualization makes application
atmosphere like other old factories, mobile and shut down unnecessary
but these big structures are no One of the key aspects of servers. Virtualization helps in
less scrutinized for their growing achieving green tag in your data knowing the server space, mapping
consumption of electricity. Energy center is power management. applications to a different physical
consumed by data centers are Data Center managers need to location to gain more efficiency.
expected to raise 50% know and understand from where Datacenter Virtualization plays
energy comes and how it is being one of the major roles in the quest
As demand for cloud storage distributed in the facility. This towards Green data center.
grows exponentially, more helps managers to cut down energy
facilities will be built which intern wastage. Designers and managers
increases the demand for electricity need to look for alternative
and other resources. Data centers methods of generating power, Looking For Alternative Power
are already consuming of the which make them move even Resource:
world’s total energy. Organizations closer to LEED certification.
are making an honest effort to find One of the best ways to stay clean
alternative methods of generating Renovate Your Cooling System: is to find alternative energy that
electricity without depending on works for your facility. Companies
local providers. Some of the IT Focus your cooling racks and can think about installing heat
giants like Microsoft (have plans servers and also ensure reduce pumps, wind energy, solar panels
to build data center which runs airflow by sealing off holes in and evaporative cooling, these
on Bio-gas), Google, HP, EMC, walls, ceilings and floors with alternative methods can lower
Dell and many more have already appropriate duct. This might your cost and significantly
tested and implemented alternative help in increasing efficiency and reduce company’s environmental
methods of generating power. to reduce power consumption. footprints.
These companies are not only Managers need to access and
concentrating on power generation, implement best accessories to their
but these companies are data centers which intern improves “Efficient data centers is not just
efficiency at a relatively low cost. good for your organization but it
Concentrating more on improving is also a social and environmental
efficiency of their data centers and Release Your Redundancy: responsibility to manage your
design them according to U.S. facility’s operations.”
Green Building Council to earn Many facilities invest in redundant
LEED Gold certificate. LEED cooling and heating systems, which
Gold certified data centers are the inflates your energy bills. Slash
ones with high efficiency and does redundancy wherever possible and
remove all idle hardware which
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