VMware Helps Enterprises and Governments of All Sizes Go Green
29 April 2009 Source: www.vmware.com
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Has Saved Enough Energy to Power the United States for 10 Days(1).
VMware have 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 have 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 savings of 105 billion kilowatt hours of electricity , or roughly $11.6 billion. According to The World Factbook1, 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 utilization 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.
1 Derived from "The World Factbook". CIA. 2008.
2 VMware has virtualized a total of 8,487,000 servers, resulting in a total of 105,578,823,168 kWh saved.