tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post2801513463639487140..comments2024-03-28T13:39:27.601-07:00Comments on DSHR's Blog: EE380 talk on eBay storageDavid.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-38560017858439701382015-06-23T18:37:51.816-07:002015-06-23T18:37:51.816-07:00Patrick Thibodeau at Computerworld pointed me to a...<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2937408/data-center/1-in-3-data-center-servers-is-a-zombie.html" rel="nofollow">Patrick Thibodeau</a> at <i>Computerworld</i> pointed me to a paper by Jonathan Koomey of Stanford and Jon Taylor of the Athensis Group which reports that <a href="http://anthesisgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Case-Study_DataSupports30PercentComatoseEstimate-FINAL_06032015.pdf" rel="nofollow">30% of data center servers are zombies</a>, powered up but doing no useful work. This figure is the same as was reported in 2008 by McKinsey, and in 2014 by the Uptime Group.<br /><br />The NRDC believes that the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2598562/data-center/data-centers-are-the-new-polluters.html" rel="nofollow">problem is concentrated in smaller data centers</a>, and not in the large cloud centers, which burn only about 5% of the total.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.com