With average CPU utilization hovering in the single digits, most data centers are spending thousands of dollars to power systems that are idle. Learn how organizations can use virtualization to significantly increase utilization and reduce power consumption through consolidation and dynamic resource and power management. You may not control a power plant or national policy, but you control your data center. You can make a positive impact on the environment, while cutting costs for your company. Learn more.

1. Virtualization: The Best
Initiative to Alleviate the Power
Crisis in the Data Center
John Gilmartin, VMware
Jake Seitz, First American

2. Agenda
The Data Center Climate Crisis
The Economic and Environmental Impact of
Server Consolidation
Ongoing Optimization of Power Consumption
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3. Today’s Model is Broken
(Over)sizing of capacity upfront
Applications sentenced to
servers for life, low flexibility
Servers spend life bored,
underutilized
Yet servers consume >50% of
average power when idle
Servers are getting smaller but
consume more power
Datacenters are outdated and
hugely inefficient
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4. Datacenter Energy Use Will Continue to Rise
Source: EPA report to Congress on Data Center Energy Efficiency, July 2007
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