How to Run a Leaner, Greener Data Center.
Deadbeat servers can impose needless expenses on a data center. Decommissioning a single dead, or “ghost” server, can save as much $560 a year, although some analysts put that figure upwards of $2,000. For large server farms—farms with 100,000 servers a more—that could amount to substantial savings. If 10 percent of those servers are serving no recognizable purpose, that would amount to savings of $5.6 – 20 million a year. Read More …