Friday, June 26, 2009

Succeed with Sun

By Kazu Oda

The use of energy is one of the defining topics of our age. The personal expense of powering your server for the daily operation of your business can be quite significant. Also, the toll that all of this cumulative power takes on the power grid is quite sizable in some cities. Aside from the expense, there is also the potential for devastation in lost information, should something go terribly wrong.

Computers provide us with our entertainment as well as our livelihood and lifestyle. Whether we are taking in an opera or purchasing a drink at the local pub, we can be sure that information has passed through a computer at some point in the transaction.

The administration of this municipality is very much dependant on Information Technology (IT). However, their servers were not operating very efficiently. They were employing 16 distributed servers and using outdated desktop tower servers. There were over 100 desktops in use. The municipality decided upon

consolidating and virtualizing the server's infrastructure modernizing the city's network the use of a virtual desktop infrastructure for the city employees consolidating the printer environment

There are products and techniques in use right now that are achieving great success in doing just that. Let's have a look at one of them.

One technique is the employment of Virtual Desktop infrastructure. A product that achieves this is VMware View. This portfolio of products allows IT to run virtual desktops from the data center giving the user personalized desktop views from whatever device they choose to use, from any location.

This storage of information in a centralized server greatly reduces the "physical" space required for logistical operation, reducing management costs. Also, this bolsters security by moving data from numerous desktop devices to the datacenter. This will also increase the speed of provisioning while strengthening user flexibility by providing universal access. This removes the desktop from the environment of the hardware and OS, thus eliminating unnecessary storage and potential IT problems from your workplace.

Many more case studies can be viewed at http://efficient-servers.eu/ for more information and opportunities to support this project as we continue to develop technology toward a more energy efficient IT future. - 22787

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