3 Ways to Cut Data Center Energy Use from Sun’s Efficiency Guru

Subodh Bapat, who heads up computing giant Sun Microsystem's energy efficiency charge, advocates the notion of “energy-proportional computing.” While most data centers today use basically a constant amount of power regardless of workload, engineers and data center designers are working on making servers use the equivalent amount of energy for how much work they do. With energy prices, and computing demands, on the rise, the trend makes sense. Companies across the board, from Sun to Google to Advanced Data Centers to International Data Security, are innovating on a variety of ways to make data centers more efficient. But sometimes it's the simplest steps that can do the most good. While we're all waiting for energy-scaling data centers, Sun's Bapat offers three simple suggestions for... [read full story]