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content management systems. See CMS CPU utilization, metrics for datacenters, 257
(content management systems) CRM (Customer Relationship Management),
control system, centralizing air-handling, 76 260–262
cooling, 63–77 CRTs (cathode ray tubes)
airflow optimization and, 70 e-waste toxins, 4–5
automated tiered storage and, 245–246 US landfill regulations and, 9
cable management and, 71–72 CSFs (certified sustainable forests), 202
calculating need for, 65–67 Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
cost of power and, 63–64 260–262
datacenter design and, 75–77 customers
economizers, 67–69 changing business processes and, 260
factors driving up cooling costs, 64–65 Dell program for, 176, 181–182
fans, 73
fluid-based systems, 74–75 D
hot aisle/cold aisle equipment data
configuration, 70–71 analyzing, 283–284
HP’s Dynamic Smart Cooling solution, baselines and benchmarks, 283
69–70, 185 collecting energy saving data, 282
humidity and, 74 confidentiality, 142
information systems and, 275 destroying when recycling,
on-demand, 69 142–145, 176
raised floors and, 71 duplication and power consumption, 49
recirculation of equipment exhaust migration in storage virtualization,
and, 72–73 241–242
sources of heat in datacenters and, 225 mining, 259
SprayCool product, 217–218 qualitative reviews, 285
supplying air directly to heat quantitative reviews, 284
sources, 73 storage and power consumption, 49–50
system design, 75 tracking, 282–283
UWRF building project, 199, 201 databases, CRM, 262
vapor barriers and, 72 datacenter density metric, 257
Wal-Mart initiatives, 210 Datacenter Efficiency (DCE), 255–257
cooperative buying, 89 datacenters, 215–232
core business values, Rackspace, 194–196 bandwidth requirements, 227–228
costs/cost savings cable management, 226–227
cooling, 64–65 consolidation of servers, 221, 223–224
datacenter design, 217–218, 225, 228 cooling, 75–77
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), 125 cost savings, 217–218, 225, 228
green practices and, 13–14 Dell’s green initiatives, 176
hardware, 14, 169–170 efficiency of, 218–219
outsourcing, 97 facilities manager for, 223
paper, 104–105 floor layout, 219
power, 15–18, 63–64 hardware reduction, 225
product, 136–137 HP’s green initiatives, 192–193
server virtualization, 252–253 LEED and, 228–229
storage virtualization, 253 metrics for, 255–257
courses, on sustainability at UWRF, 204