Warmer datacenters?

No shameless plug here, so le'ts say that datacenter ACME has just announced a 2 MegaWatt expansion to their facility. A major increase in data center capacity, and a source of great joy for the company. And the source of potentially of 714 additional carbon introduced each month into the environment.

At the same time, the risks and rewards of raising the temperature in the data center were debated last week in several new studies based on real-world testing in Silicon Valley facilities. The verdict: companies can indeed save big money on power costs by running warmer.

Cisco Systems expects to save $2 million a year by raising the temperature in its San Jose research labs.

This been, even if they figured out that increased temperature is not correlated to higher failure rates, nudge the thermostat too high, and the energy savings can evaporate in a flurry of server fan activity.

No doubt, fine-tuning datacenters is important, on an ethical, political, ecological and financial standpoint. But first things first: how many bad server room implementations have you seen?

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better than LinkedIn?

I see LinkedIn as a very powerful tool and I'm using it daily.

While it's a perfect for business relationships and networks management, is it the best tool on the marketplace to manage content, announcements, forums, product evaluations... for a group sharing an expertise?

I'm not sure, and the LinkedIn ITIL certified group (more than 3,000 members) was experiencing some kind of overhead in managing the group while not necessarily getting the information structure that was expected.

The community is invited to move to the newly renovated ITSM portal.

Be social, give it a try :)