Briefings Direct

The critical and global problem of energy management for IT operations and data centers has emerged as both a cost and capacity issue. The goal is to find innovative means to conservation so that existing facilities don't need to be expanded or replaced. In order to promote a low-risk matching of energy supply and cost with the lowest IT energy demand possible, the entire and contextual IT landscape needs to be considered. That means an enterprise-by-enterprise examination of the "many sins" of energy mis-management. To learn more about how enterprises should begin an energy-conservation mission, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner spoke with Ian Jagger, Worldwide Data Center Services marketing manager in Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Technology Solutions Group, and Andrew Fisher, manager of technology strategy in the Industry Standard Services group at HP. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/11/solving-it-energy-use-issues-requires.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.