Measure, Analyse and Act the Three Steps to Energy Efficient Data Centres

The European Commission's recent Code of Conduct on Data Centres' Energy Efficiency, coupled with the quest for cost savings in the economic slowdown, has brought data centre efficiency into the spotlight. The industry is increasingly recognising that efficiency improvements must be made, in order to reduce both power consumption and utility bills.

But how can we really make a difference? The three steps to maintaining a sustainable data centre environment are to measure, analyse and act. While most think that they can measure energy consumption once and expect the result months later to be the same, the emerging view is that for real savings to be made, energy must be monitored and data analysed and acted upon continually  this is what differentiates an audit from sustainability.

Speaker

Joe Polastre is co-founder and chief technology officer at Sentilla, a company that provides demand-side energy management solutions for data centers and commercial facilities. Joe is responsible for defining and implementing the company's global technology and product strategy.

Winner of the 2009 Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 40 Under 40 award and named one of BusinessWeek's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs, Joe often speaks about energy management and the role of physical computing -- where information from the physical world is used to make energy efficiency decisions. Before joining Sentilla, Joe held software development and product manager positions with IBM, Microsoft, and Intel. Joe is active in numerous organizations, including The Green Grid, US Green Building Council, ACM, and IEEE.

Joe holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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