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According to the EPA, physical servers consume 40% of the IT power load and sit idly about 85-95% of the time. 

Power consumption is quickly becoming one of the hottest items items in IT, whether your priorities revolve around cost savings, keeping the data center running, or sparing the environment.  Virtualization is quickly rising to the top of the list of energy saving tools because of its ability to make redundant underutilized physical machines that sit idle all the time and consume the lion's share of an organization's energy. LISS Virtualization solutions help customers save power and costs by consolidating these machines onto much less hardware, both through initial consolidation efforts and dynamically as computing requirements change. 

 

LISS virtualized power solutions can:

  • Consolidate servers by 15:1, eliminate server sprawlm and cut maintenance and energy costs;
  • Reduce energy consumption and save 7000kWh of electricity annually, or about $700 in energy costs.
  • Increase IT capacity by improving server utilization rates from 5-15% to 60-80%. (Running fewer, highly utilized servers frees up space and power)
  • Reduce CO2 emissions 4 tons of CO2 are reduced for every server we virtualize: that's like taking 1.5 cars off the highway.

 

In fact, a  recent report from the Environmental Protection Agency claims "data centers in the U.S. consume 4.5 billion kWh annually, 1.5 percent of the country’s total." Logic would dictate, if we can then reduce the amount of servers and underutilized physical machines in the data center, we can thereby reduce the amount of power consumed on a daily basis dramatically.

While there are many factors contributing to excessive energy consumption in datacenters, underutilized x86 hardware is the most noticable. Another EPA study revealed in a recent white paper by VMware that "servers consumed 80 percent of the total IT load and 40% of total datacenter power consumption in 2006. Site infrastructure—including cooling of equipment—accounts for another 50 percent of total datacenter power consumption. Yet because x86 servers typically house only a single application, their processors sit idle 85-95 percent of the time. While sitting idle, these servers use nearly as much power as they do when they are active."

It is clear that never before has the need to reduce not only energy consumption but IT costs in an economic downturn been more paramount. Further by reducing the amount of servers that consume power with fast and more productive virtual solutions, business can reap the benefits of enterprise level to both reduce their carbon foot prints and cut power costs at the same time. Aside from making perfect business sense, using a smart virtualization plan will soon become a part of greening the IT market for the 21st century

Contact us now to find out how LISS solutions can assist in your power needs.