Ted Samson at InfoWorld’s Sustainable IT blog writes today about
the advantages of automatically adapting cooling in your
datacenter to meet actual (not theoretical) load without totally
retooling your facility However, we live in the real world where
the pizza gets cold while datacenter admins have to put out
(preferably figurative) fires, and datacenter operators waste
precious electricity and thousands of dollars — if not tens or
hundreds of thousands of dollars — creating unnecessarily chilly
meat-locker-like conditions in their datacenters. Sure, tools do
exist for better regulating temperature on a rack-by-rack basis,
such as sophisticated sensor-based offerings from companies such
as HP and SynapSense. However, not all datacenter operators have
the budget or the level of need to justify investing in that
sort of additional technology hardware. Fortunately, datacenter
operators may have just about everything they need to
automatically optimize cooling in real time using the IT and
cooling equipment they