“We Can’t Afford to measure PUE” Really?
Let's make a proposition: One can't not afford to measure energy consumption in any facility. You can't change what you don't measure. I was reading through my blog subscriptions while on a few long flights and ran across mmanos' note in LooseBolts, linked below. “We Can’t Afford to measure PUE”: " I'm not particularly opposed to organizations going out and taking measurements as MM suggests. However, let's not look at this as being a particular solution to the underlying problem. There are some particular challenges tha

Look to the end.
Its an interesting concept isn't it? Look to the end - respicere finem. Few of us do it, and those that do probably have some room for improvement. After all, it is substantially easier to think in the moment - look to solve a current crisis instead of getting in front of the problem and thinking to and end-state, a goal, and desired outcome down the line. In the datacenter and ICT world, respicere finem is a fairly rare accomplishment. Few have the luxury to be able to get in front of the current and execute a plan for the future, especially in these financial times. Oddly, most executives I have met do understand the need to get to this nirvana. The problem is that cur