“Install monitoring and management tools, baseline utilization and consumption, determine what is allocated vs. actually used [including storage, servers, power, network ports, and other components], and put together a strategic plan that provides the biggest bang for your buck,” Polastre says.
Optimization Considerations
Processor
By Christian Perry
Friday November 5, 2010
“Managing energy actively results in a 40 percent or more energy savings in the data center. When you consider that a data center can consume 10 to 100 times more energy per square foot than the average office building, and in some cases up to 40 percent of an organization’s carbon footprint, you begin to understand the importance of managing energy in the data center.”
Treat Energy as a Key IT Asset
Enterprise Systems Journal
By Joe Polastre
Tuesday October 5, 2010
“Think of the total cost of ownership and trade off cost against performance rather than focusing on expensive solutions such as building new data centers in The Arctic. Instead, warm up to the idea of making your existing data center more efficient.”
Does Data Center Location Matter?
AFCOM Communique
By Joe Polastre
Tuesday September 14, 2010
“Companies rely on their data center to provide uninterrupted services to power the core of their business,” says Dr. Joe Polastre, CTO and co-founder of Sentilla. “In turn, data center uptime depends on proper management of the facilities and IT equipment.”
Identify weak points in your enterprise’s uptime
Processor
By Elizabeth Millard
Friday July 30, 2010
Metrics from the mainframe days are coming back, such as MIPS/watt and bits/kWh. Supercomputers are still benchmarked using MIPS/Watt, but when we moved to distributed computing we lost a lot of these benchmarks.
Data Center Metrics: Today’s Focus
Data Center Post
By Post Moderator
Tuesday July 20, 2010
A standard physics textbook will tell you that ‘efficiency’ is defined as the amount of work completed for each unit of energy consumed. PUE and DCiE do not measure efficiency.
Data Center Metrics Demystified
Processor
By Chris A. MacKinnon
Friday July 2, 2010
Most of us don’t realize that there is tons of data about energy in the data center. We just don’t normally think about it as energy data.
Choose a Software Solution for Your Energy Management Woes
IT Business Edge
By Joe Polastre
Wednesday June 9, 2010
To be successful, open-source projects need “pretty widespread participation,” said Joe Polastre. ”One of my biggest questions is what will motivate people to open up and share what they are doing,” he said.
Group Seeks to Open Source Data-center Design
PCWorld
By James Niccolai
Friday March 5, 2010
The UK CRC EES does risk encouraging ‘a new carbon laundering industry’, according to Sentilla Corporation’s Joe Polastre: ‘UK companies can reduce their carbon impact by moving IT operations to a hosted facility in Europe, bypassing CRC regulations’.
Energy Efficiency Scheme: winners and losers
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
By James Hayes
Monday March 1, 2010
In the coming years, Polastre has big plans: ”My goal is to bring to market technologies that make a measurable impact on the world’s energy use. And as long as I still get to tinker, build things, and get my hands dirty, I’ll be happy.”
40 under 40: Joe Polastre
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
By Editorial Staff
Monday June 29, 2009
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