I found this article last week and thought I'd share it with you.  Inside, Michelle Bailey from IDC makes some good points about just how big of an issue power and cooling has become.

Here's an excerpt:

“Efficient power and cooling is the number one problem in the data center today, even ahead of availability and disaster recovery,” says Michelle Bailey, research vice president for IDC’s Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends. “That’s a big change. Just two years ago, it was just starting to become important.”

Moreover, Bailey says that many organizations are bumping up against power limits on expanding and adapting to key opportunities. The result? “Power and cooling used to be an IT problem, now it’s a business problem.”

You can read the rest of the article here.