Green IT
Adopting Green IT practices is an easy way to reduce power and cooling requirements, as well as the physical space required for the infrastructure, but “it’s not easy being green”. Using resources more effectively and efficiently to reduce energy consumption and the carbon footprint of the organization are serious business, and also happen to be a natural byproduct of using PERFMAN.
In the past, data centers have ballooned due to the "one app, one server" mentality. Driven by the need to maintain availability and service levels for end users, these servers were sized for peak application needs, while spending most of their life at only 10% utilization—wasting valuable space, power and resources. With the success of virtualization, organizations are now in a position to re-think their deployment strategies and embrace smart capacity planning practices inherent in PERFMAN. PERFMAN delivers required performance and availability, while accomplishing the benefits of Green IT, such as reduced costs, power consumption and space requirements.
PERFMAN also enables Green IT by giving organizations the visibility to optimize their data center. Whether through server consolidation and virtualization or better management of the existing IT infrastructure, PERFMAN can accurately measure and forecast the usage of servers that drive utilization. In fact, our clients have found that they see the benefits almost immediately.
One PERFMAN client was able to analyze their entire SQL Server farm and found that almost 50% of their servers were under 2% utilization. By consolidating these servers, they reduced the power and cooling needed, becoming significantly more "green" in the process.
Another client was able to better plan for future expenditures by using PERFMAN. Within weeks, they realized that through better management, they could delay the purchase of additional servers and software licenses by 18 months. This saved them millions of dollars and improved (reduced) their carbon footprint.
PERFMAN enables the transition to “Green IT” through its ability to better manage the infrastructure, discover underutilized servers, recommend appropriate consolidation, and forecast the growing needs of the applications…eliminating the need to make additional, unrequired hardware purchases.
Read the article published by the Eastern Technology Council on Green IT highlighting PERFMAN as a solution for "going green". To schedule an online demo or learn more about the PERFMAN solution, contact us today or call (610) 865-0300.
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Read the Eastern Technology Council's article on Green IT, featuring PERFMAN.
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