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3D heat map cuts cooling costs As organisations struggle with staggering power bills of data centres, G Dharanibalan, Vice President, Offering Management & Development, Global Technology Services, IBM, India/South Asia, talks to Varun Aggarwal on how IBM helps CIOs cut their energy and cooling bills with technological aids. 36
cto forum 21 september 2011
The Chief Technology Officer Forum
What percentage of a data centre budget is spent on power and cooling? How much of this can be reduced using the latest technologies? Bulk of the non-IT operational spend of data centre is towards energy bills. More than half of the energy consumption of data centres is consumed by power and cooling components. Cooling consumes the largest share of this budget. With the available technologies 30 to 40 per cent reduction in electrical consumption is possible today. In order to achieve such savings, merely changing technologies is not sufficient. All components have a range of operating conditions within which they are most efficient. The efficient 'Operation' of these advanced components is equally important in achieving the savings, forcing the need for both one-time baseline definitions of cooling inefficiencies inside an operating