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Cool runnings: IBM's recipe for a happy datacentre, in pictures

Summary: How do you make your datacentre run better, and save money? At IBM's research labs and facilities in upstate New York, three ideas are uppermost on people's minds: energy efficiency, monitoring, and utilisation.

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Getting a datacentre's infrastructure right is a huge part of the battle - but it goes hand in hand with better monitoring.

IBM developed its Measurement & Management Technologies (MMT) to better understand power usage in its datacentres. Naturally enough, it's now them to clients.

MMT comes in a manual version and a robot version - pictured above is the manually-guided sensor trolley, which gathers data from sensors placed all around the room to create a 3D heat map.

"Measure chiller power, measure cooling tower power, measure pump power, measure the IT – and then plot it," says Schmidt.

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Topics: Cloud, Data Centers, Datacentre Tour, Emerging Tech, IBM, Servers

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  • IBM's racks suck!

    Take a look at the cable management. It is Horrible. We had a project where IBM brought in their own RACK as part of a solution and had to live with it for 5 years until we finally got rid of that garbage. There is virtually none or poor cable management. We standardized on APC Wide and Deep racks with proper cable management and its far superior. They really need to do something about this if they want to provide complete solutions that work well in a professional server environment. I'd send back any solution that strings cables everywhere like that. Just my 2 cents.
    Drewidian
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  • half?

    "So you want to make the infrastructure half of the pie as small as possible."

    I think I see your problem.
    RedEmma
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  • Blue glow

    What are those racks with the blue glow in between the Netezza and the System z? Power 795?
    AdamS12
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