Optimizing data center TCO: Efficiency metrics and an infrastructure cost model

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 114 PART 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 44-50

  Malone, Christopher G ^a   Belady, Christian L ^b  

^a Hewlett Packard's Business Critical Server Group   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELS; COOLING INFRASTRUCTURES; COST STRUCTURES; DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURES; DATA CENTERS; ENERGY COSTS; ENTERPRISE DATUMS; HARDWARE COSTS; INFRA STRUCTURES; INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS; IT EQUIPMENTS; IT POWERS; OVERALL EFFICIENCIES; POWER EFFICIENCIES; POWER MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES; POWER USAGES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCES;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIRCRAFT; COOLING; COSTS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; HEATING; QUERY PROCESSING; REFRIGERATION;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 55849085049     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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