Energy used by the nation’s servers and data centers is about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006, costing about $4.5 billion. This consumption is up by a factor of 2 since the year 2000 and is projected to double again by 2011 unless efficiencies are implemented. Bill Ryan, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Foundry Networks joins me to discuss best practices in Green Data Center Networking that can result in network power consumption efficiencies in the 80-to-90% range. If you’re looking to build a Green data center, then you need to listen to this podcast.

Posted 28 January 2008 at 10:56 am under Podcasts, Foundry Networks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.