CIOs and IT directors should look at inefficient use of power and cooling in all datacentre components, from routers to servers and in other network equipment - across the whole power delivery infrastructure.

The US Environment; Protection Agency is working on standards as part of its Energy Star programme to help people buying PCs, servers and data centre equipment identify energy efficient hardware. In the second part of his interview with Andrew Fanara of the product specifications development team at the US Environmental Protection Agency, Cliff Saran finds out about the programme.

According to Fanara, "Datacentres represent a great opportunity for companies to cost-effectively reduce energy consumption, particularly during peak times. At the same time, their efforts will contribute towards the global challenge of tackling climate change."