Use Virtualization to Free Yourself from the Energy Market
Posted on July 26th, 2010 by ajones |
When power becomes more expensive, you feel it. For the months when there’s a spike in oil pricing, “green IT” becomes a priority, only to fade when the cost to run your datacenter comes down again. Even if the ups and downs average out to a tolerable price, the fluctuations make IT budgeting a vexing endeavor, leaving you unable to forecast your costs effectively … and ultimately forcing uncomfortable conversations with the executive team.
Implement a virtual infrastructure, and you’ll gain energy cost containment and better budget predictability along with a more agile datacenter.
The benefits of virtualization for energy cost management are significant. By consolidating your servers through the portability of resources across platforms, you won’t need to over-provision to handle unexpected demand. With less equipment out on the datacenter floor, power and cooling demand won’t climb as high, resulting in contained costs.
Of course, your datacenter energy costs will still fluctuate with market prices, but they’ll fluctuate in a lower range, resulting in a lesser impact on your budget this year. Since next year’s budget is undoubtedly influenced by this year’s levels, the impact of energy cost management stretch into the future. Through virtualization, you’ll have a platform for future cost savings and budgetary simplicity.
Technology agility and flexibility aren’t the only advantages of a virtualized infrastructure – you also gain financial agility and flexibility. By simplifying your infrastructure and reducing the need to provision aggressively while some systems remain dark, you’re able to slash energy consumption – and with it IT operating expenses.
Green IT isn’t just about saving leaves – it’s really intended to save you some cash and free you from the constraints of an uncertain market.
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