Bringing Enterprise Computing into the 21st Century: A Management and Sustainability Challenge

This article was originally published on 03.17.14 by Jonathan Koomey Corporate Eco Forum’s EcoInnovator Blog
Information technology (IT) has been the catalyst for revolutionary change across modern companies, reducing costs, enabling rapid institutional transformation, and generating new products and services. The great irony is that the IT industry has itself not been much affected by the […]

Three Pillars of Modern Data Center Operations

HeatSpring Expert Jon Koomey on the Tracking, Procedures and Physical Principles of Modern Data Center Operations.
This article originally appeared on DataCenterKnowledge.com on 2/2/2016
Modern enterprise data centers are some of the most technically sophisticated business activities on earth. Ironically enough, they are also often bastions of inefficiency, with equipment utilization much below ten percent and 30 percent […]

Modernizing Enterprise Data Centers for Fun and Profit

Twenty first century data centers are the crown jewels of global business. No modern company can run without them, and they deliver business value vastly exceeding their costs. The big hyperscale computing companies (like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook) are the best in the industry at extracting that business value, but for many enterprises whose […]

Free “Data Center Cost Calculator” from Stanford’s Jonathan Koomey

Jonathan Koomey created a simple Excel model for determining true total cost of ownership for data centers that you can customize and use for your company projects. Dr. Koomey was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal article titled, “Zombie Servers: They’re Here and Doing Nothing but Burning Energy”, and is the co-author of the […]

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