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An Opinion is Offered on Expected Growth Areas

In 2009, multitudes of IT departments had to reassess their datacenters, and many are making enlightening discoveries, like air cooling can be sufficient in keeping systems in optimum condition or 15-30 percent of what is consuming power in their datacenters can be turned off with no harmful effect. So what does this type of complete and thorough datacenter inventorying translate to for the IT industry in 2010? ServerWatch’s Andy Patrizio offers his opinion.

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Sun Servers Improve Performance, Ability, Stability With Less Space

The University of Washington’s Department of Mathematics needed a hardware upgrade in order to successfully expand the computational capabilities and overall performance of Sage, an open-source computational software program. A new Sun solution was chosen with Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4540 servers, providing a powerful, compact server technology for the department’s growing open-source mathematics software engine.

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Measuring Data Center Energy Efficiency

In a two-part blog on the subject of Power Usage Effectiveness, also known as PUE, Wai-Kit invokes the popular maxim, “what you can’t measure, you can’t manage,” the truth of which is self-evident though the reality it describes apparently is not universally realized, according to the blog.

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