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Now virtualisation is mainstream, fears about putting too many apps on the same server are evaporating. That just leaves the problem of calculating power consumption, as Stewart Baines reports.

Computing may drive efficiency but the data centres that run business are often far from efficient. Servers haven’t traditionally used all of their spare CPU power, because reliability concerns stop administrators running lots of applications on one box.

The extra energy used for those wasted CPU cycles means that an enormous amount of carbon is burned into the atmosphere unnecessarily. But how much? And more importantly, how much energy – and therefore carbon emissions – can be saved by consolidating servers?

Check out this interesting article about the need to be more energy efficient with the data center and the IT infrastructure. It’s got some interesting comments and examples of how virtualization can save you money in terms of the cost of power, an interesting read.

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