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PALO ALTO, Calif., October 6, 2009 — VMware, Inc., (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced the opening of a new green IT datacenter in East Wenatchee, Washington. Throughout its design and build-out, VMware chose industry best practices to create an energy-efficient facility that utilizes cutting-edge technology and maximizes the use of VMware virtualization software. As a result, VMware expects to achieve $5 million in savings per year from the facility.

VMware has significantly reduced its environmental footprint and expects to attain rapid Return on Investment (ROI) on its next-generation datacenter investment through:

$4 million each year in energy and $1 million each year in location consolidation costs for a total of $5 million in savings per year
Deployment of virtualization with 100 percent clean, renewable energy
70 percent savings in power and equipment, due to air-side economization, the practice of using free outside air to cool the facility
A targeted Power Utilization Rate (PUE) of between 1.2 – 1.5  – well below the industry standard of 2 – 2.4
Pending application for LEED Platinum certification from the US Green Building Council. LEED is the internationally recognized green building certification system.

It’s great to see and hear more about VMware’s new data center, including information about it’s energy efficiency. I noticed it was talking about the data center PUE, a topic I know that has been getting my data center colleagues rather emotional, is PUE just a figure? Does it deal with the core issue? No, but it’s a benchmark, a step, just like MPG, it illustrates the concept, and at least enables technical/non technical people to benchmark where they are in their data center world.

VMware have used a range of technologies and best practice to reduce the power consumption of their data center for which they should be praised, the more we discuss the issues, the more we can share knowledge and move the data center design and best practice, the standards along in line with the possibilities.

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