NGD defends its 1 PUE claim

Unapologetic with regard to the industry's lukewarm response to its latest marketing scheme, NGD instead pointed to the influx of customers the new marketing strategy has brought to their doorstep. The company's data center has run exclusively on renewable energy since 2010 - the new renewable capacity added by extra solar panels could very well be enough to offset the electricity consumed for overhead. Regardless, those with a more traditional view of PUE might continue to see these claims as simple marketing.

PUE considerations for every data center
Though the reality of achieving a perfect PUE ratio is still very much in the air, there are plenty of steps that IT teams can take to get their data centers as close to a score of 1.0 as possible. IT service company Jisc recommends that data center managers rethink their facilities' hardware organization. For example, a simple adjustment can greatly improve the airflow of a building and ease your cooling burden. This goes double for IT staffs still working with legacy copper wires. Utilizing tools like fiber-to-Ethernet converters allow teams to extend broadband connections over longer distances and set up more efficient hardware configurations.

Perle has an extensive range of Managed and Unmanaged Fiber Media Converters to extended copper-based Ethernet equipment over a fiber optic link, multimode to multimode and multimode to single mode fiber up to 160 km.