Thursday, April 15, 2010
Dell: The greenest data center is the one you never build.
Dell made the amazing revelation that, by waffling on their data center expansion plans, the company realized they might never need to build another new data center.
By virtualizing their servers, Dell was able to go from an industry average 12-18 percent utilization for its servers to 42 percent utilization, a number that Parker says is still "going north." As a result, "we've doubled our workload at no extra power, and no extra servers," Johnson said.
By virtualizing their servers, Dell was able to go from an industry average 12-18 percent utilization for its servers to 42 percent utilization, a number that Parker says is still "going north." As a result, "we've doubled our workload at no extra power, and no extra servers," Johnson said.
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