
: Home Featured Engineering Labs : An Efficiency Opportunity Engineering Labs : An Efficiency Opportunity February 28th , 2011 Rich Miller A panel on engineering labs at the Technology Convergence Conference featured Mike Honer from Juniper Networks , Chris Doland from Cisco Systems and Val Sokolov from Brocade . As America’s largest companies begin to get a handle on their data center energy usage , they’re widening their gaze to scrutinize the efficiency of their engineering labs . Managers of some of the leading lab operations in Silicon Valley say the attention is long overdue , and will lead to significant energy . savings One of my challenges is to carry the message that the lab is just as much a production environment is the data center , and should be treated as such , 8221 said