Virtualisation and Green IT

Make your IT lean and green!

Gartner research states that due to the power of the x86 server architecture, the average server utilisation is between only 5-15% which means that much of your computing power is going to waste. With a virtual environment using fewer servers, not only will you be promoting a greener IT environment, you will also increase server utilisation to 60-80%, maximising the return on your hardware investment.

How can you help reduce environmental impact?

Virtualising just 20 servers will save you the equivalent in server and cooling energy as taking around 20 cars off the road, or planting around 300 trees!

Unsurprisingly, it is the energy consumed by data centres that is causing the bulk of the power consumption in businesses. As IT managers today grapple with trying to deliver value, boost efficiency and reduce costs, they now have to consider their carbon footprint too. For every server virtualized, customers can save about 7,000 kilowatt hours (kWh), or four tonnes of CO2 emissions, every year.

Dial in to one of our upcoming free virtualisation webinars in 2009 to find out how VMware can work for you!

For further information call our Virtualisation Specialists today on 01344 401548.

* figure is approximate. Speak to Solsis for your business's green calculations.

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