"Where to start depends on what your current status is. Get started with #4 including environmental monitoring. If you have no data then you have no clue where to start and what the effect of changes are. Take facility equipment and IT equipment in…"

"OpenDCME can be implemented in an enterprise and a co-location data center. If you are a co-location data center, then invite your customers and their customers to assess the total chain of data center and IT against the OpenDCME model. And in case…"

"How realistic is it? I bet APC and tohers have a similar one proving that ActivePower is not that efficient. But the numbers at the bottom can be helpful. Budgetholders often do not know what the kW or kWh numbers mean. If you express it in homes…"

"Just ran into a new DC with a PUE of 1.12 as average over May 2010. It was a very cold month where their free-cooling capable data center handled an IT load growth of over 30% easily. Other months show 1.2 up to 1.5 and it fully depends on the…"

"A stack of 4 servers, 2 DAS devices and a switch on top of a single 1U rackmounted server. They were short on rails or other rack mounting equipment so stacking was the easiest way forward."

"Via LinkedIN I got a link to the "NABERS Energy for Data Centres" page with documentation and a questionnaire: http://www.nabers.com.au/page.aspx?cid=648&site=2."

"Assuming that http://www.nabers.com.au/ is the right place to get informed about NABERS, I must say that it is another facility/building approach to solving the road to energy efficiency where the energy-users of the data center - IT equipment - is…"