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One of the most surprising things about the data center industry is how cavalier it is about the number of servers sitting around using electricity but doing nothing. We call such servers “comatose”, or more colorfully, “zombies”. In 2015 we did our first study of this issue using granular analysis
Read moreImage: Critical data centre at University of Hertford. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Unported 3.0 license. The Wall Street Journal today has an article by Bob McMillan highlighting my work with Anthesis and TSO Logic on zombie servers (those that are using electricity but delivering no useful
Read moreI’ve been working with Jon Taylor of Anthesis Group and Aaron Rallo of TSO Logic to compile data on servers in enterprises that are using electricity but generating no useful computing output (we call these comatose servers). Until now, it has been difficult to compile data on idle servers
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