Keeping Data Centers Cool and Costs Down Through Consolidation

August 12, 2011

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Keeping the Web alive and well isn’t easy work. In fact, it requires a lot of computing power – and that requires a lot of power that goes to not only to running data centers, but cooling them as well. You can’t avoid those costs entirely, but you can reduce them. One way is to consolidate workloads using virtualization.

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Keeping the Web alive and well isn’t easy work. In fact, it requires a lot of computing power – and that requires a lot of power that goes to not only to running data centers, but cooling them as well. You can’t avoid those costs entirely, but you can reduce them. One way is to consolidate workloads using virtualization.
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