Turn Your Data Center Green—Cost-Effectively
Data center energy consumption has become a major issue for many businesses, adding substantially to operating costs and creating roadblocks to growth in existing facilities. Fortunately, a powerful solution is available today. By combining server and storage virtualization, companies can dramatically reduce not only energy consumption, but also space requirements, equipment costs, and overall operating expenditures. These technologies can add years of life to existing facilities, while providing unprecedented flexibility for supporting new applications and growing workloads.
Intel and Compellent—Virtualizing the Data Center
In combination, server and storage virtualization offer much-needed relief for today’s overloaded data center.
• Lower total costs—Capacity is used far more efficiently, which reduces capital costs and data center footprints, as well as power and cooling requirements.
• Simpler provisioning and management—Virtual servers and storage volumes can be created in minutes, and resources can be dynamically allocated as workloads evolve. Many time-consuming tasks can also be automated, enabling fewer administrators to manage more systems and larger data volumes.
• Improved availability—A failed application can be restored in seconds—including complete data recovery. High availability and disaster recovery can be implemented quickly and cost-effectively, without extensive design efforts or dedicated hardware.
Many businesses are already taking advantage of server virtualization on multi-core Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers to consolidate dozens of applications per server. Storage virtualization offers comparable advantages. A Compellent Storage Center* SAN, which is also powered by Intel® Xeon® Processors, can help many organizations reduce storage-related power consumption and space requirements dramatically, often by more than 90 percent, while greatly simplifying data and storage management.
Read the full Turn Your Data Center Green—Cost-Effectively Application Brief.
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Turn Your Data Center Green—Cost-Effectively
Data center energy consumption has become a major issue for many businesses, adding substantially to operating costs and creating roadblocks to growth in existing facilities. Fortunately, a powerful solution is available today. By combining server and storage virtualization, companies can dramatically reduce not only energy consumption, but also space requirements, equipment costs, and overall operating expenditures. These technologies can add years of life to existing facilities, while providing unprecedented flexibility for supporting new applications and growing workloads.
Intel and Compellent—Virtualizing the Data Center
In combination, server and storage virtualization offer much-needed relief for today’s overloaded data center.
• Lower total costs—Capacity is used far more efficiently, which reduces capital costs and data center footprints, as well as power and cooling requirements.
• Simpler provisioning and management—Virtual servers and storage volumes can be created in minutes, and resources can be dynamically allocated as workloads evolve. Many time-consuming tasks can also be automated, enabling fewer administrators to manage more systems and larger data volumes.
• Improved availability—A failed application can be restored in seconds—including complete data recovery. High availability and disaster recovery can be implemented quickly and cost-effectively, without extensive design efforts or dedicated hardware.
Many businesses are already taking advantage of server virtualization on multi-core Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers to consolidate dozens of applications per server. Storage virtualization offers comparable advantages. A Compellent Storage Center* SAN, which is also powered by Intel® Xeon® Processors, can help many organizations reduce storage-related power consumption and space requirements dramatically, often by more than 90 percent, while greatly simplifying data and storage management.
Read the full Turn Your Data Center Green—Cost-Effectively Application Brief.
