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Last decades witnessed a significant increasing in energy consumption in data centers and server rooms. More powerful equipment and more complex IT services have been driving to more power demand. Since infrastructure and energy costs in data centers have become a central factor in IT management, a range of technologies has been developed to increase energy efficiency. New hardware and power management options support energy saving strategies. An appropriate procurement plan is essential for building an efficient ...

In the last decades the energy consumption of data centers has increased exponentially. The high energy consumption is due to power consumption of the IT resources, to the cooling system and to the inefficient usage of the resources. From the total power consumption in a data center one half is consumed by active servers and another half is consumed by the cooling system, network of the data center etc. There are several techniques for increasing the efficient usage of the resources in a data center. One of these ...