VMware Helps Enterprises and Governments of All Sizes Go Green
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Has Saved Enough Energy to Power the United States for 10 Days (1)
SYDNEY, Australia, Apr. 30, 2009 — VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that it continues to drive sustainability and socially responsible “green” initiatives for customers of every size in the private and public sectors across the globe. VMware customers have virtualized more than an estimated 9 million workloads since 1998, resulting in an estimated energy saving of 105 billion kilowatt hours of electricity (2), or roughly US$11.6 billion. According to The World Factbook (1), those savings are equivalent to the power consumed in the US for 10 days.
VMware virtual infrastructure helps enterprises and governments reduce their energy costs and consumption by as much as 80 percent. Most desktops and servers today are in use only eight to 15 percent of the time they are turned on, yet they consume 60 to 90 percent of the normal workload power even when idle. VMware vSphere has advanced resource and memory management features that will enable consolidation ratios of 15:1 or more and dynamically power off unneeded servers, which increase hardware utilisation to as much as 85 percent. Every server retired from a datacenter saves an estimated four tons of CO2 emissions, equivalent to taking 1.5 cars off the road or planting 55 trees. Similar opportunities for savings are available for desktop PCs, which can be consolidated on servers in the datacenter using VMware View. VMware vSphere 4 is expected to be generally available during the second quarter of 2009.
The Nurses Board of Victoria, a government agency for the state of Victoria in Australia, is in charge of registering professional nurses, accrediting educational institutions and investigating professional conduct cases. “By deploying VMware virtual infrastructure, we reduced our power usage by 25 percent and also lowered our carbon footprint,” said Michael Hoffmann, CIO, Nurses Board of Victoria.
Forestry Tasmania is an Australian government organisation charged with managing more than 1.5 million hectares of state forest land. “Forestry Tasmania consolidated its IT environment using VMware virtual infrastructure,” said Jeremy McCarthy, team leader systems and helpdesk for Forestry Tasmania. “This allowed us to reduce server room power consumption by more than 30 percent.”
Launched on 1 July 2004, Queensland-based SPARQ Solutions provides shared information technology services to joint owners Energex and Ergon Energy. The organisation’s 500 staff undertake IT projects and tasks worth AU$200 million a year from headquarters in Brisbane. The VMware implementation at SPARQ delivered an annual energy saving of 1,256,372kWh, eliminated 794 tonnes of CO2, and reduced annual data center power costs by AU$158,000 (excluding cooling).
Public company Orica which operates in mining services, chemicals and consumer products converted its two Melbourne managed data centers to VMware server virtualization to support business growth, cuttting power consumption from 120 watts per processor to 68. Savings were enhanced by the capacity to power down servers during periods of low resource demand, saving one million tonnes in CO2 emissions over three years by using less cooling and power.
VMware works with more than 40 utility companies worldwide to offer financial incentives for virtualization projects in datacenters. The incentives are based on the amount of energy savings achieved through data center consolidation and qualifying customers can earn a maximum rebate amount of $4 million per project site, and $300 to $600 in annual energy costs for each server removed. Those savings are almost double when reduced datacenter cooling costs are also taken into account.
For more information on how VMware helps companies and governments of all sizes go green, please visit: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/consolidation/green/
- Derived from "The World Factbook". CIA. 2008. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2042rank.html.
- VMware has virtualized a total of 8,487,000 servers, resulting in a total of 105,578,823,168 kWh saved.
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VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter—bringing cloud computing to businesses of all sizes. Customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers and more than 22,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC). For more information, visit www.vmware.com.
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