IDC: Data Center energy consumption issues focus

Data Center is a energy-intensive industry, large-scale data centers is a huge energy consumption, data center cost of energy often accounted for data center overall operating costs more than 50%. In the context of the whole society advocating http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/39398.html "> Energy saving and emission reduction and enterprises need to control costs, How to save data center energy consumption and build green data center become the focus of data center operation and Management.

IDC's research on China's data center market shows that CIOs and IT managers in the company are more focused on infrastructure such as air conditioners and power supplies than ever before, and are more concerned about how to properly configure and manage infrastructure and IT equipment.

PUE is commonly used in the industry to evaluate data center energy efficiency indicators, PUE = Data center Total equipment energy consumption/IT equipment energy consumption, but in the data center in the actual operation management, energy-saving emission reduction is far from PUE definition is so simple, it needs data center managers from IT equipment and infrastructure two Aspects to consider and take measures. In recent years, server virtualization has become a common technology in data center energy-saving practice. But virtualization also brings some problems, such as: the increase in energy density, virtualization caused by the migration of heat sources, and the key to solve these problems is how the capacity of the infrastructure and IT equipment energy consumption, heat dissipation needs of dynamic matching, Change the status quo of separate management and fragmentation of IT equipment and infrastructure, making the entire data center a perceptible, integrated ecosystem.

DCIM (Data center infrastructure Management, Datacenter Infrastructure management) proposes the idea of unified management of the data center's infrastructure. IDC believes that DCIM solutions should help datacenter managers achieve the following goals:

1. Reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the data center;

2. Proactively manage the use of energy;

3. Prediction of infrastructure failures in advance;

4. Optimize the management of the redundant amount of resources such as server and energy;

5. Management and control of heterogeneous equipment through different communication protocols and physical interfaces;

6. Reduce operating costs through automated strategy and heuristic program management;

7. Improve the efficiency of data centres and prolong the service life of existing data centres.

IDC believes that through the DCIM platform, data center managers can instantly perceive the status and trends from infrastructure to it devices, and configure and adapt them to achieve the best possible match for infrastructure and IT equipment, providing technical support and decision-making for building green data centers.

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