Mar 18 2010

Will converged data centers save on energy? Not so fast, suggests Gartner

Published by Heather Clancy at 1:04 pm under conservation,energy,engineering,green tech

Logic (and industry marketing campaigns) suggest that converged data center architectures will make for less ports, fewer switches and therefore less cooling infrastructure and energy consumed. But a new report from Gartner is challenging that notion, because of the complexity involved in designing such converged networks. Titled “Myth: A Single FCoE Data Center = Fewer Ports, [...]

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