Robert Hunt, manager of enterprise systems management at American Greetings, had one goal in mind — drive out costs related to energy use. This included energy in the company’s central 2,200-sq-foot data center in Cleveland as well as in 10 remote plants housing rack servers running manufacturing systems and four facilities outside of the U.S.
His team’s strategy to reduce energy usage and lower operating costs aimed at turning off a number of the CRACs that cooled the facilities.