Increasing Energy Efficiency, Cardiff University

January 18, 2016

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Managing the cooling cost and decreasing energy consumption at Cardiff University's HPC and general IT-use data center was made easier through StruxureWare Data Center Operation: Energy Efficiency. University CTO Hugh Beedie explains how DCIM analytics enabled a process of continual improvements to PUE which halved the data center power bill. PUE: http://bit.ly/2pqqb44 Data Center Design: http://bit.ly/2pqbMVD

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