What’s a green data center? Do they use green boxes? Are they mean - like Mean Joe Green? Do they support Greenpeace? Or do they just save green, as in greenbacks? Well all are true. Green is the new data center strategy.

Larry Tabb Founder & CEO TABB Group

Data centers traditionally have focused on compute power, storage, connectivity, and cooling. As firms have migrated from large single processor mainframes, to multi-processor UNIX-based servers to Linux and Windows-based clusters, firms’ have experienced logarithmic jumps in processing power, but significant increases in power, cooling and operating cost as well.

While few outside of the data center think of power and cooling as major issues, they are. The heat and power consumption of the non-green data center can be so significant it impacts data center processing efficiency and a firm’s ability to compute.

To solve this, technology firms have made significant strides in re-architecting chips, servers, network facilities, and data center infrastructures to reduce heat and power consumption while increasing processing efficiency.

So what is the green data center? It is a data center design strategy which uses less power while increasing processor density and data center effectiveness. Is it mean? Yes, the more efficient the more effective. Does it save the planet? Yes, less power means fewer hydrocarbons and less global warming. And does the green data center save money? You bet, greater efficiency means lower utility bills. So while your firm may not be focused on saving the planet, it should be focused on conquering it, and lowering operating cost couldn’t hurt either – both of which look pretty green to me.

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Filed under: Issue 3 - Fall 07