going green
can put IT budgets in the black
Servers running at 10 percent capacity make your datacenter 90 percent inefficient. That’s not just wasting electricity and increasing carbon emissions—it’s squandering your shrinking budget and complicating IT management.
Enterprise organizations depend on their datacenters for the IT services that run the business. Even in the best economic conditions, IT budgets are under scrutiny. Which means IT staff are being asked to do more things, more rapidly than ever before—and they are deploying more and more servers to meet enterprise goals.
More is less
But adding server after server to your datacenter increases electricity bills, creates excess heat, and adds to your bulk—without adding efficiency. This “server sprawl” also introduces greater complexity to datacenters and adds to the burden of IT management.
But adding server after server to your datacenter increases electricity bills, creates excess heat, and adds to your bulk—without adding efficiency. This “server sprawl” also introduces greater complexity to datacenters and adds to the burden of IT management.
The fixed cost of waste
As you add more servers, you multiply associated costs. It takes electricity to run each server—whether sitting idle or 100 percent utilized. And the heat they generate takes additional electricity for air conditioning. With power costs rising at double-digit rates, this represents one of the largest total expenditures of your datacenter.
As you add more servers, you multiply associated costs. It takes electricity to run each server—whether sitting idle or 100 percent utilized. And the heat they generate takes additional electricity for air conditioning. With power costs rising at double-digit rates, this represents one of the largest total expenditures of your datacenter.
Total cost of your datacenter
In addition to power and cooling, you must factor in the cost of hardware, software, floor space, and people—all of which directly relate to the number of physical servers in production.
In addition to power and cooling, you must factor in the cost of hardware, software, floor space, and people—all of which directly relate to the number of physical servers in production.
The costs of over-provisioning
Over-provisioned physical servers in your datacenter are simply too great a cost to ignore. Most individual servers in a datacenter are operating at between 10 to 30 percent capacity—and that's costing companies an estimated $140 billion a year in unused server capacity. With the cost of operating power for servers set to surpass the cost to buy them in the next five years, now is the time to make your IT infrastructure green and lean.
Consolidate confidently
You can consolidate or eliminate your in-house datacenter by outsourcing hardware requirements to iland. Depending on your needs, iland can provide the cost-effective iland Resource Cloud© with a dedicated pool of resources, or the iland Enterprise Cloud© as a fully outsourced solution with dedicated and segregated resources deployed within high availability iland cloud datacenters.
You can consolidate or eliminate your in-house datacenter by outsourcing hardware requirements to iland. Depending on your needs, iland can provide the cost-effective iland Resource Cloud© with a dedicated pool of resources, or the iland Enterprise Cloud© as a fully outsourced solution with dedicated and segregated resources deployed within high availability iland cloud datacenters.
Our virtualized cloud infrastructure does more with fewer physical servers. For example, let’s say you’re currently using 200 servers that are taking up space, generating heat, and consuming staggering amounts of electricity. Our virtualized cloud computing products let you stack multiple images onto fewer boxes and reduce those 200 servers to the equivalent of 20 highly optimized physical servers—increasing your profitability and competitiveness.
Lower your carbon footprint
Traditional in-house datacenters are bad for your IT budget—but they’re also bad for our planet. Underutilized servers are wasting tremendous amounts of electricity and creating millions of tons of carbon emitted by coal-powered plants. As organizations in all industries are coming under increased pressure from environmental regulations and public opinion, a greener IT infrastructure is good for your bottom line, the environment, and your company’s reputation.
Traditional in-house datacenters are bad for your IT budget—but they’re also bad for our planet. Underutilized servers are wasting tremendous amounts of electricity and creating millions of tons of carbon emitted by coal-powered plants. As organizations in all industries are coming under increased pressure from environmental regulations and public opinion, a greener IT infrastructure is good for your bottom line, the environment, and your company’s reputation.
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