Data Centers and the Push to Power Down

The next five years or so will spell big trouble for data centers. About 46 percent of more than 150 IT professionals and executives surveyed earlier this year by the Business Performance Management Forum said they're running out of space, power and cooling infrastructure for their data centers. In the years leading up to 2011, data center operations will slam to a halt at more than 90 percent of all companies because of power failure and limits on the availability of power, according to a study by AFCOM.

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