Long-Term Thinking, Long-Term Savings
Energy demand is rising like never before. Adding new power generation capacity is a slow and expensive process, and the rise in energy prices reflects it. The price of electricity has jumped an average of thirty percent in the last five years, and is estimated to rise even faster as global demand far outpaces capacity.
The cost of running IT infrastructure is quickly having a substantial impact on every company’s bottom line. With no relief in sight for high energy prices, it’s time to consider a new way to provide IT services using a fraction of the power used today. Spending money today to make your data center more efficient, productive and adaptive will translate into tremendous savings in ongoing operational expenses.
Do More With Less
IT infrastructure takes a lot of power to run. At least, it used to. Before energy costs and environmental concerns became a topic for the boardroom, infrastructure was built with only performance and resiliency in mind. Now IT Architects must contend with a third constraint – power usage. Servers take lots of power to run, and pump out even more heat.
The average Windows Server only uses 5% of its available computing capacity at any given time. Virtualization enables the use of these wasted resources, all while consuming the same power, and outputting the same heat. Deployed accross your data centers, those savings can really add up. Using virtualization and shared storage to consolidate 3,000 physical servers onto 134 physical servers saved BT $2.4 Million each year in power costs alone.
Interested in building a Green data center? Want to know how much you can save by consolidating your infrastructure? Get in touch, and we’ll show you how.