Going green has gained a lot of attention recently, especially with the introduction of an energy tax credit for companies that demonstrate energy savings.

As you can imagine, being able to demonstrate that your data center has significantly reduced energy consumption is easier said than done.

Evolving Solutions is now offering a cutting edge service to its customers to measure real-time energy consumption on an ongoing basis. Temperature sensors are attached to cabinets in your data center and smart power strips that are IP enabled are used to measure how much power is being drawn.  All of this data is pumped into a Web portal along with a CAD drawing of the data center layout.  The output is a map of the data center with a data overlay showing which appliances are hot.  All of this happens in real time, which allows you to tactically see what’s happening in your data center and what you need to do to reduce energy consumption.

Some companies that are actively tracking energy consumption in this manner have also uncovered discrepancies with SLAs billing them too much.  They have the exact amount of energy consumed readily available and understand exactly how much they should be paying.

Contact Evolving Solutions to discover how you can increase energy efficiencies within your data center.

At this point, most companies have dabbled with virtualization in some shape or form and it is becoming more accepted as a viable platform. As virtualization matures, it will become less about hardware and more about how to efficiently manage a virtualized data center environment that has impact company-wide.

Companies need to start viewing virtualization holistically. They don’t fully understand the implications of deploying virtualization and that there are software and security considerations in play. From a business standpoint, when everything is running on one virtualized server, how do you account for the cost internally? There is a need to revisit internal charge codes and develop protocols for cost allocation and accounting. The same goes for troubleshooting. Which department should assume responsibility for addressing any technical issues that arise? Many companies currently separate IT and datacenter line items, but implementing virtualization will require them to be folded into one cost.

The evolution of virtualization, therefore, is as much about managing maturity as it is about technological innovation, which paves the way for managed service providers.