One of the greatest challenges for data center operators today is the increasing cost of power and cooling as a portion of the total cost of operation.

The need for more computing resources and data handling, relentlessly marches on - at an astonishing rate. Research firm IDC expects the amount of digital information produced by the world will increase five-fold from 2009 to 2012.

Data center expansion is expensive. A 2007 IDC Datacenter Trends Survey found that data center construction costs are projected to exceed $1,000 per square foot or $40,000 per rack. Faced with these issues, organizations have three basic choices:

- Build new data centers despite the expense, - Expand power and cooling capacity of existing data centers, or - Improve usage of existing capacity through better power management.

The first and second choices require major capital expenditure. The third offers a way to squeeze more performance out of existing resources. This merits a closer look. In fact, recent developments in server power capping solutions make this choice particularly compelling.

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