Extreme Tech Analysis by Wolf

One of the biggest power-consumption issues in data centers is cooling all those servers.  There are a couple of ways to address this cooling issue.  Consolidating the servers you have, can reduce the number of boxes running at all, and this will immediately address the cost of powering the data center as well as addressing the cost to lower the temperature in the center.  Along with consolidation comes questions of how well the servers will run when they are running either virtual machines (a common way to consolidate while maintaining much of the security of having physical separation between resources) or policy-separated access to sensitive files using group-access policies. (more…)