
Subodh Bapat is a Vice President and Distinguished Engineer in the Eco-Responsibility Office at Sun Microsystems. He currently drives Sun's systems level energy strategy, which includes energy management architectures, specifications, tools and standards from the microprocessor and system level up through the application layers.
The cost of power as a percentage of overall IT spending ranges from 20 percent for a small enterprise data center to about 80 percent for very large hosting and collocation providers. But cutting-edge server design can reduce the machines' energy use can keep them from becoming the largest resource hogs.
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