Users who decommissioning of equipment, see
considerable savings by Uptime Institute
Uptime Institute estimates that 20 percent of all ITequipment plugged earth has no other function than to warm the planet. But for
data centers that manage the disconnect device, the savings are substantial.
To draw attention to the issue of what is sometimes
called "ghost servers" Uptime held a contest, inviting data center
managers to submit their own efficiency efforts. The results are impressive.
Barclays, the top uptime in order to remove the 9124
physical servers last year. These servers, in total, consumed 2.5 megawatts
(MW) of power and could meet the 588 server racks. Power behalf of the company
by $ 4.5 million higher if the systems were still running.
In addition, Barclays $ 1300000 to save maintenance
costs older hardware and release more than 20,000 network ports and SAN port
3000.
Sun Life Financial came second retired 441 servers.
It replaced 54 of these systems with newer, more efficient models and converts
to 75 virtual servers. Sun Life expects to save 115 kilowatts a year in
electricity consumption and $ 100,000 in energy costs. The change also allowed
the company to reclaim data center space.
Uptime operates this competition to draw attention
to saving data center decommissioning can bring.
Scott Killian, vice president of energy programs at
Uptime, was until recently head of AOL primary data center, and has been
involved in similar efforts decommissioning. The process, he said, is not easy.
When business units add new applications, IToperations will buy and install servers to meet the needs based on projections
of capacity. With time, they can use the application to migrate in or out, so
the servers behind him, said Killian.
Business unit could cause expansion, but it takes a
"real pressure on IT operations to enforce the problem" once hardware
outlived their usefulness, or is underused, said Killian. "We're at the
point where you're basically monopolization of valuable data center space and
increased floor space and power," he said.
Killian said decommissioning can be a lengthy
process that includes both IT and the business interests that might be focused
on developing new products - and how to get rid of old equipment. In addition,
the decommissioning include transferring applications on virtual platforms and
private cloud environments, he said.
It is difficult to know how strict IT managers are
to consolidate and retirement facilities, but it is one of the indicators can
be server revenue. IDC server consolidation cited as one reason for the decline
in revenues server.
Barclays wants to continue its efforts. In a
statement, Ian Penny, the global leader in distributed technologies Barclays,
said that "the increasing reliance on internal virtual private cloud technologies
allow us to continue the removal of physical servers from the environment,
which leads to significant savings and reduce environmental impact.
"As we deploy our next generation cloud
platforms and start using hybrid models sources, we expect that this trend will
continue," said Penny.