Evaluating Energy Management Maturity: A Checklist for CIOs
Posted by Player Pate on Wed, Sep 14, 2011 @ 02:03 PM
In the face of such intense pressure from many different directions, few CIOs attempt to argue against improving energy management practices. The question is how?
The article outlines the phases on an energy management maturity model for CIOs as they work toward making better use of electrical power. The model covers the JouleX principles of monitoring, analyzing and controlling energy.
JouleX is mentioned and JouleX CEO Thomas Noonan is quoted in the Forbes piece:
"Analytics is the second phase of the maturity model in which the data collected in the visibility phase is put to use in a variety of ways. The first thing to look for, of course, are what Joulex CEO Thomas Noonan calls dead servers, servers that are less than 15 percent utilized and consuming more than 70 percent of their rated energy. 'If we see a server being utilized at 15% I can take the power level down to about 20%, not impact the processing efficiency of that processor at all,' said Noonan. 'Do that across 10,000 servers dynamically and you’ve just saved a boatload of energy."
This is a great read for CIOs just getting started with an enterprise energy management program. Because as the article states, "Having a fully realized energy management capability that covers every piece of equipment and every application could be overkill for most data centers. But if a CIO is not implementing at least some of the capabilities described in this model, you can bet a significant amount of money is being wasted."
You can read the entire Forbes article here.