Green Computing, Helping Save The Planet
What is "green computing"?
In 1992 the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, launched Energy Star. A program develop to recognize and promote energy efficiency in monitors, climate control systems and other technologies. The term “Green computing” was adopted shortly after the program Energy Star began; in 2006 this program was revised to include stricter efficiency requirements for computer equipment. Green computing isn't a special computer or software you can buy. It is a way of thinking and operating. There are no disadvantages, no loses, and no liabilities at all. All you do is benefit from saving thousands of dollars, reducing energy use and costs, and save the planet ALL at the same time.
The goal in cloud computing is to provide the same functions and computing environment you are accustomed to but reducing the amount of hardware and resources needed to operate. Less computers and less hardware means less maintenance and less cost. Not to mention, less energy use which amounts to a much smaller carbon footprint for your business. Planet Virtual is pioneering technology for business with virtual servers and cloud computing services.
Planet-Virtual's Savings Offer
With today’s technology and Planet Virtual server technologies, we can help reduce the energy consumption in significant amounts for businesses. A non-IT business that has physical servers on-site most likely has not caught on with time and technology. Running hardware for prolonged amounts of time can drain energy and inflate your costs of operation. By taking these same servers and virtualizing them with us, you reduce energy consumption and have THE same exact, or should we say, better, computing environment along with our Windows hosting platform. Planet Virtual uses VMware's virtualization infrastructure to use advanced resource and memory management features that enable consolidation ratios, which increases hardware utilization to as much as 85%. Once the servers are virtualized, a feature in VMware called “Distributed Power Management” (DPM) monitors the utilization across the business and intelligently powers off unneeded physical servers without impacting applications and users. Through virtualization our customers can dramatically reduce energy consumptions without scarifying performance. According to recent studies the annual energy consumptions for servers in the US is the same magnitude as for television sets. Microsoft recently announced that business customers around the world have saved an average of $470,000 per year through IT projects using virtual servers. By running multiple virtual machines on fewer physical servers, customer are drastically cutting cost and easing server management.
