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Shawn Conaway is Associate Editor for Mission Critical. Shawn has held a variety of challenging leadership roles throughout his 15 years of managing systems infrastructure for Fortune 500 companies. He has automated system builds for thousands of servers; wrote and testing disaster recovery plans; designed storage area networks, virtual infrastructures, and backup environments; and deployed or moved many data centers. He has been working with x86 virtualization since VMware was just a year old and built the first VMware infrastructure at Kohl’s Department Stores and Roundy’s Supermarkets. Reach him at MCeditorialSC@bnpmedia.com.
Nobody is surprised to hear that power and cooling are huge costs for running a data center. Twelve percent of the cost for running a data center is power according to Gartner.