Monday, November 10, 2008  Solving IT Energy Use Issues Requires
Holistic Approach to Efficiency Planning and Management
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast with HP’s Ian Jagger and
Andrew Fisher on the role of energy efficiency in the data
center.   Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, principal
analyst at Interarbor Solutions and you’re listening to
BriefingsDirect. Today we present a sponsored podcast discussion
on the critical and global problem of energy management for IT
operations and data centers.  We will take a look at energy
demand, supply, costs, and ways to develop a complete management
perspective across the entire IT energy equation. The goal is to
find innovative means to conservation so that existing
facilities don't need to be expanded or replaced.  Good energy
management is not as simple as just less hardware or better
cooling, but it really requires an enterprise-by-enterprise
examination of the "many sins" of energy and resources misuse.
In order to put into practice longer-term