A Journey to Power Intelligent IT - Big Data Employed

Sustainability has become a hot topic as a result of significant concerns about the unintended social, environmental, and economic consequences of rapid population growth, economic growth, and consumption of our natural resources. For the IT industry in particular, a highly important consideration that affects the decisions of IT managers is data center power consumption and carbon emission.

This Knowledge Sharing article provides a ‘cookbook’ for decision makers and data center managers to help them on their journey to green data centers. Authors Mohamed Sohail, Denis Canty, and Omar Aboulfotoh provide recommendations, considerations, tips, and tricks on how to design future data centers and enhance current models.

The article concentrates on best practices and use of EMC products to achieve optimal results on the journey to Green IT. The authors share a winning idea from the EMC Innovation Showcase 2012, “EMC Power Smart: Energy Usage Big Data Model for EMC Products Worldwide: A Smart Energy Monitoring and Reporting System”. They also illustrate best practice into modern and “sustainability compliant” data centers.

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