Best Practices for Environmentally Sustainable Data Centers

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April 21, 2009, 3:23 PM — The Microsoft Global Foundation Services' data center team released a new paper today titled: "Top 10 Best Practices for Environmentally Sustainable Data Centers." Its objective is to help data center managers, industry operators and IT professionals reduce energy consumption and waste to cut costs, drive efficiencies and generate good will among customers, employees and the communities in which they conduct business.

Tips include how to focus on effective resource utilization, using virtualization to improve server utilization and increase operational efficiency and optimizing server platforms to meet application requirements.

Learn more about the Top 10 Best Practices for Environmentally Sustainable Data Centers.

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