Earlier this year, we unveiled the Digital Service Efficiency (DSE) methodology, our miles-per-gallon (MPG) equivalent for viewing the productivity and efficiency of our technical infrastructure across four key areas: performance, cost, environmental impact and revenue. The goal of releasing DSE was to provide a transparent view of how the eBay engine is performing, as well…

Last week, eBay released a white paper on its Digital Service Efficiency (DSE) initiative, which helps it to see the full cost, performance and environmental impact of customer buy and sell transactions. This gives eBay a holistic way to balance and tune its technical infrastructure. Dean Nelson, eBay’s vice president of Global Foundation Services, says the…

I’ve been with eBay Inc. since 2009, and even just in the past four years, I’ve witnessed a significant change in the growth and importance of data centers, and the way we, as an industry, measure their efficiency. The Green Grid’s Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric – as well as the water and carbon equivalents…