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Reduce the energy demands of your datacenter by right-sizing your IT infrastructure through consolidation and dynamic management of computer capacity across a pool of servers. Our virtualization solutions powered by VMware Infrastructure delivers the resources your infrastructure needs and enables you to:
- Reduce energy costs by 80%.
- Power down servers without affecting applications or users.
- Green your datacenter while decreasing costs and improving service levels.
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Energy consumption is a critical issue for IT organizations today, whether the goal is to reduce cost, save the environment or keep your datacenter running. In the United States alone, datacenters consumed $4.5 billion worth of electricity in 2006. Industry analyst Gartner1 estimates that over the next 5 years, most enterprise data centers will spend as much on energy (power and cooling) as they do on hardware infrastructure.
VirtuWorks customers reduce their energy costs and consumption by 80% through virtualization. Most servers and desktops today are in use only 8-15% of the time they are powered on, yet most x86 hardware consumes 60-90% of the normal workload power even when idle. The VirtuWorks VMware virtualization infrastructure has advanced resource and memory management features that enable consolidation ratios of 15:1 or more which increase hardware utilization to as much as 85%. Once virtualized, a new feature of VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) called Distributed Power Management (DPM) monitors utilization across the datacenter and intelligently powers off unneeded physical servers without impacting applications and users. Through virtualization, our customers can dramatically reduce energy consumption without sacrificing reliability or service levels.
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Beside the company bottom line effect, virtualization is positively impacting the environment. Gartner2 estimates that 1.2 million workloads run in VMware virtual machines, which represents an aggregate power savings of about 8.5 billion kWh—more electricity than is consumed annually in all of New England for heating, ventilation and cooling.
While this is a good start, there are plenty of opportunities for saving even more energy, and money. Analyst firm IDC3 states that the un-utilized server capacity equates to approximately:
- $140 billion
- 3 years supply of hardware
- More than 20 million servers.
At 4 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually per server, these un-utilized servers produce a total of more than 80 million tons of CO2 per year. This is more than is emitted from the country of Thailand and more than half of ALL countries in South America.
1Source: Gartner, Inc. "Eight Critical Forces Shape Enterprise Data Center Strategies" by Rakesh Kumar, 02/08/07
2Source: Gartner, Inc.“Gartner Says Agility Will Become the Primary Measure of Data Centre Excellence by 2012”,10/24/07
3Source: IDC, “Enterprise Class Virtualization 2.0 Application Mobility, Recovery, and Management”, Doc # DR 2007_5MEW, February 2007
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1800Radiator
Through Virtualization, 1800Radiator not only enabled a new and improved disaster recovery strategy, but also dramatically cut power and cooling costs, receiving a $6,000 PG&E rebate check in the process.
QUALCOMM
Internal groups at QUALCOMM receive virtual machines instead of physical servers as a default policy. The company now has an allocation model that is based on resource needs, not server needs, and saves approximately $19,000 per month in power and cooling costs.
Solvay Pharmeceuticals
With just over 100 virtual machines, Solvay Pharmaceuticals estimates a savings of more than $1.5 million in hardware costs alone. The company also saves in space, power, cooling, network connections, racks, power hookups and SAN connections.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Virtualization has allowed the United Kingdom branch of the WWF to dramatically reduce their carbon footprint while simplifying management of their IT infrastructure and create an effective disaster recovery practice. After experiencing these benefits, the WWF-UK IT team has been urging the entire global operation of WWF to implement VMware solutions.
Johnson Controls
At Johnson Controls they achieved a 20:1 consolidation ratio, driving consolidation up from 0.1 percent to 70%. They were on the verge of buying in-room chillers to handle the heat load but with virtualization they regained 32 tons of cooling capacity.
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville Hospital selected VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to satisfy their desktop manageability requirements. They deployed thin clients to replace 400 desktop PCs and reduced power usage across the environment by 72%.
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