What’s the best way to measure the efficiency of a data center?

No one really knows. But there’s no shortage of IT minds trying to figure it out.

Last month, in partnership with Intel, data-center management software vendor iTRACS took up the challenge of developing a metric — a single number — that will allow data-center operators to assess the efficiency of their facilities relative to their bottom line, and the company is only the latest in a string of organizations trying to develop similar metrics. Industry coalition The Green Grid has been working on the problem for four years.

By Eric Smalley

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