In the third installment of my Spiceworks Data Commentary series, I add some color and advice to Spicework’s recent post on how much energy the Spiceworks community is estimated to have saved by using an Intel Power Management plugin.
They put together a nice infographic going over the savings:
In my piece, I gather up several anecdotes of hunting down energy waste in data centers and then give tips on implementing a power saving program in IT, including an eye towards some side-benefits. Check it out, and tell me how energy waste hunting has been going in your shop.
Save $200/year while sleeping
I also spoke with Ernest Mueller (he of dev/ops in action fame) about power management. He told me a nice anecdote about one co-worker tweaking their desktop’s sleep mode to really hunt down waste:
Since this is Green Week, actually I was just reading an internal newsletter article from someone who disabled NightWatchman but took it on himself to use a Kill-A-Watt meter to measure power usage and experiment with setting various sleep modes himself, and estimates a $200/year power cost savings using his settings.
Which reminded me of this GreenMonk interview Tom did around 1E’s NightWatchman:
Disclosure: Spiceworks is a client. Sentilla, who’s quoted in the Spiceworks piece is a client as well.
For IT, proper energy management has more benefits than just saving power
In the third installment of my Spiceworks Data Commentary series, I add some color and advice to Spicework’s recent post on how much energy the Spiceworks community is estimated to have saved by using an Intel Power Management plugin.
They put together a nice infographic going over the savings:
In my piece, I gather up several anecdotes of hunting down energy waste in data centers and then give tips on implementing a power saving program in IT, including an eye towards some side-benefits. Check it out, and tell me how energy waste hunting has been going in your shop.
Save $200/year while sleeping
I also spoke with Ernest Mueller (he of dev/ops in action fame) about power management. He told me a nice anecdote about one co-worker tweaking their desktop’s sleep mode to really hunt down waste:
Which reminded me of this GreenMonk interview Tom did around 1E’s NightWatchman:
Disclosure: Spiceworks is a client. Sentilla, who’s quoted in the Spiceworks piece is a client as well.
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