Virtual Infrastructure Technology Solutions
Watts Up?
Webster's Dictionary defines a watt as "a unit of power or the amount of energy per unit of time." Last year you used 4,567,352 of them.
Webster goes on to define a kilowatt hour as "the amount of energy expended by a one-kilowatt device over the course of one hour."
Let's assume a 1470 kilowatt power consumption per server on a standard Dell 200-240V PowerEdge 6850 power supply that supports your data center of 417 servers.
Last year you used:
417*1470/1000*24*365=5,369,792.4kWh
Your local power company defines a kilowatt hour as $0.18.
Well, last year your electric bill totaled: 5,369,792,400*0.18, which translates to $966,562!
Additionally, Webster's goes on to define 1 kW as also equaling 3414 BTUs.
So, let's see,
That means at 3414 X 5,369,792.4 carry the one, you created 18,332,471,254 BTUs last year. Since the average Leibert AC system counteracts heat at a rate of 600,000 BTU/hour (at an average consumption of another 30,554 kilowatt hours to counteract the heat that you are generating with the kilowatts you have already consumed), you used an additional $5499.74 dollars of kilowatts to run the A/C system. You did this so the 417 servers in your data center (at an average cost of $4000 each - you know the ones using all the kilowatts and creating all the BTUs) don't melt down and have to be "defined" as junk.
So...
This means that last year your company spent $972,062.34 dollars to on energy alone to operate 417 systems that on average use 5 percent of their available resources. But as we all know, each application needs it own server, each department needs its own apps and you need a bigger budget every year!
Watts up with that?
Isn't it time you got to define something?
How about you redefine your company's IT systems to be more efficient? Instead of 417 machines doing almost nothing individually, what if you consolidate servers into a proven and secure environment that allows you to finally utilize the capabilities of the hardware it runs upon?
How about you turn 417 systems at 5 percent into 100 systems, each running at 50-60 percent with each one able to integrate into a pool of resources available for any application that needs it?
How about you define next year by saving $700,000?
How about you then tell Webster's and your local power company Watts up?
Consolidation is not only real; it's efficient, effective, and successfully deployed in more places than you may think.
A server consolidation project allows your company to:
- Remove unnecessary hardware and recover a lot of data-center real estate.
- Decrease your server deployment and implementation time to hours rather than days or weeks.
- Maintain your current level of operating system and application isolation.
- Decrease the costs associated with rolling out new applications and new server instances.
- Add new applications and services without adding new hardware and infrastructure.
- Utilize your power, equipment, rack space and ultimately your budget more efficiently.
And...it's about your best option to "redefine" the rules.
