SERVER VIRTUALISATION FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION

Data centres can use up to 100 times as much energy per square foot as typical office space, meaning tough demands on power and on the environment.    According to Hewlett-Packard, the real solution lies in the infrastructure - Xicon can provide that infrastructure solution.  Industry Best practice would say that in production each application is bound to its hardware, which has led to what has become known as "Server Sprawl".  Our Server Consolidation for Energy Conservation campaign uses virtualisation to allow companies to power down under-used PCs and consolidate the computing load on other servers.

The benefits of this are threefold:

Environmentally friendly

The energy demands of servers are growing.  Virtualisation and consolidation mean that energy output is drastically reduced, thus decreasing the carbon footprint of your company.  Less servers, mean less energy, mean less damage.

Increased manageability

Virtualised servers mean the ability to manage your server from a single point of control.  VMware from Xicon will give you the power to manage your entire virtual infrastructure. Using the production-proven VMware VirtualCenter, your organization can:

Accelerate provisioning time by 50-70%

Manage virtual machines from a central location

Monitor the performance of virtual machines and their hosts

Significant cost savings

Virtualised servers mean the ability to control spiralling electricity costs.  These costs have sprung up from the expense to power and cool creeping server numbers. Gartner Group says energy costs may increase from 10% of the IT budget today, to over 50% in the next few years.  Don't let your company be left behind - Xicon can help you reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50% by saving on the number of servers in use and consolidating applications on other servers.

For more information on reducing your carbon footprint please call Simon on 01925 248 224 or fill out a contact form here.