Green Data Warehouse Top 10

23. February 2009 by Rick Abbott.

I just published the second in the series of “Green Data Warehouse” articles in BeyeNetwork.  This article, “Top 10 Things You Can Do to Improve Energy Efficiency“, provides a pragmatic list of 10 things you can do immediately to reduce consumption at the system level.

Joe Foley (CTO Illuminate) left a comment on the benefits of “overloading processors rather than I/O”.  The EPA study cited in my article found that CPUs consumed about 31% of the energy in an average system, more than any other component and more than 6 times the amount consumed by disks.  So I think making more efficient use of CPU (and therefore reducing the number of CPUs) would be more beneficial than reducing disk.

Also, I want to thank Scott Humphrey (Humphrey Strategic Communications) for helping pitch my article series to BeyeNetwork.

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