subject: Future's Hope Green Data Center [print this page] Biggest threat to the world today is Global warming and people now are looking for options which effects environment lesser and lesser. Even the web world is looking for alternatives which consumes less energy. So they got two of the best options as Green Data Center and Colocation. There are two reasons behind these changes first is harm to the environment and second is rising cost of energy. As we all know traditional Data Centers are pollute environment heavily by producing huge amount of machine waste and heat, other than that they also consume huge amount of energy. Green Data Center and Colocation are gaining popularity with each passing day. If you re interested in building a green data center or colocation center there are few points to be cared of.
First of all you should take care of the location of the data center. It should be in a well accessible place and also in a safe place. The locations to be avoided are seismic zone and very far away sites from the main city. One more important point is the availability of inexpensive power resources. Cost related to transport of equipments and power resources looks less important on the first stance, but if you observer carefully it will be important just like use of power resources.
Data center should have a proper distribution of power. It should be utilized equally by all the electrical components including CPUs, disks and switches. For consistency and excellent performance its is important that all equipments like CPUs, UPS units, disks, modules, and switches should have high redundancy. Systems that protects against total disk failure and other components failures should be installed. Latest technology should be used to provide best and excellent services. Its is seen that Green Data Center and Colocation are seen as only environment friendly and energy efficient, but they also provide you some of most advance technologies with most affordable prices. It will make you feel good that your server are located in a world class facility and still it is not harming our environment.
Since your data center is green data center it should be cost efficient and environment friendly. Power is needed in data center not only to run server and other equipments but also to keep them cool. Heat which is generated in the data center is directly proportional to the processing power of the data center. So of the processing power of a data center increase heat generated will also increase. Just for an example a rack produced 5 kilowatts of heat few years ago may now generating 30 kilowatts of heat. So enormous power is required to cool it down. On the other hand Green Data Center and Colocation services use advanced cooling technology, which not only efficiently cool down the hardware but also reduce power consumption. One famous technique used in green Data Centers is using cool air from the environment during winter and other cold months. Instead of placing all the servers in a hall they are placed in Cold Aisle Enclosure.
