The Power of Software

Changing Data Center Behavior Based on Chargeback Metrics

On July 8, 2008, 150 attendees joined in at the Microsoft-hosted National Data Center Energy Efficiency Strategy Workshop . The sidebar opposite summarizes the overall aims of this workshop. During the workshop, I delivered a presentation on “Incenting Read More...

Part 3—"What's Your PUE Strategy?"

This third and final article describes how you can start adopting PUE in your datacenter, and how Microsoft has benefited from its long-term use of the PUE metric. If you do not have anything to adjust that can change your PUE value, you will not be able Read More...