Comments on: Survey says: Increase IT Efficiency or Risk Worldwide Brownouts http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/02/26/survey-says-increase-it-efficiency-or-risk-worldwide-brownouts/ Environmental Leader Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jack Pouchet http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/02/26/survey-says-increase-it-efficiency-or-risk-worldwide-brownouts/comment-page-1/#comment-110948 Jack Pouchet Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:12:42 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=10558#comment-110948 We at Emerson Network Power applaud the work done by Siemens to showcase the issues surrounding IT energy consumption and the slow pace of change within the IT community. We have highlighted a set of ten simple strategies that IT professionals can deploy today that over time will help them reduce overall energy consumption up to 50% while significantly increasing productivity. These can be found in our white paper on energy efficiency metrics - http://www.emerson.com/edc/docs/EnergyLogicMetricPaper.pdf. One other aspect worthy of consideration is the idle power performance of IT assets. It is time that IT professionals and data center managers take a hard look at idle power as in most servers idle power is in excess of 50% of full-power draw and frequently as high as 70%. And since most servers are sitting idle for 80% of the day the potential savings from bringing idle power down to say 10-15% would be staggering! Fortunately the US EPA is attempting to drive an ENERGY STAR specification for servers that will start to address idle performance. We call on the data center community to contact the US EPA and demand improved server idle performance. By Phone (9:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern time) ENERGY STAR Hotline (888) STAR-YES / (888-782-7937) We at Emerson Network Power applaud the work done by Siemens to showcase the issues surrounding IT energy consumption and the slow pace of change within the IT community. We have highlighted a set of ten simple strategies that IT professionals can deploy today that over time will help them reduce overall energy consumption up to 50% while significantly increasing productivity. These can be found in our white paper on energy efficiency metrics – http://www.emerson.com/edc/docs/EnergyLogicMetricPaper.pdf.

One other aspect worthy of consideration is the idle power performance of IT assets. It is time that IT professionals and data center managers take a hard look at idle power as in most servers idle power is in excess of 50% of full-power draw and frequently as high as 70%. And since most servers are sitting idle for 80% of the day the potential savings from bringing idle power down to say 10-15% would be staggering!

Fortunately the US EPA is attempting to drive an ENERGY STAR specification for servers that will start to address idle performance. We call on the data center community to contact the US EPA and demand improved server idle performance.

By Phone (9:00 am – 5:00 pm Eastern time)
ENERGY STAR Hotline (888) STAR-YES / (888-782-7937)

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