Entries tagged with green computing - TechNet Edge

Realizing the ROI of Microsoft Virtualization Solutions and How to Start

yung — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:01:00 GMT

Ref: Microsoft virtualization cost saving whitepaper, the ROI tool and training

The referenced whitepaper presents case studies of Microsoft customers including:

	Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center	Costco Wholesale Corp
	Saint Raphael Healthcare System	Slough Borough Council
	Saxo Bank	WorleyParsons
	TALX	AspenTech
	HotSchedules	Banverket ICT
	Slough Borough Council	Maxol
	MaximumASP	Mantrac
	Kentucky Department of Education	Hostbasket
	Banque de Luxembourg	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
	California State University	Jackson Energy Authority
	Kent School District	Bouygues Construction
	Volusia County Schools	Mamut

and examines how virtualization technology simplifies their IT infrastructure, streamlines IT processes, and ultimately reduces the total cost of ownership. Also included is information based on Microsoft's experience as below:

In my view, strategies in general to relatively quickly reduce IT infrastructure and support costs with virtualization solutions are, not in a particular order, to:

To transition existing IT into a hybrid environment mixed with physical and virtualized computing resources, server virtualization (i.e. server consolidation) often is where it starts. Running multiple instances in a single physical machine is not a new concept and many of us have already experienced with some host virtualization solutions like Virtual PC and Virtual Server.

To realize what your organization can benefit from Microsoft virtualization solutions,

Download the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator to identify your best candidates for server consolidation.
Determine the reductions you can achieve in kilowatts, money and CO2 emissions with the Microsoft HyperGreen Tool.
Use the Microsoft Integrated Virtualization ROI Calculator to estimate your return on investment in Microsoft virtualization tools.

Essentially, first identify your best candidates for server consolidation with this free downloadable tool, Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Solution Accelerator. With its agent-less inventory, performance data gathering, and auto-generated proposal and report generation capabilities, MAP lets you conduct network-wide readiness assessments so you can quickly and efficiently determine the right servers to target for Hyper-V. After determined how many servers to consolidate, you can use the free Microsoft HyperGreen Tool to figure out how much energy you’ll save and the environmental impact of those savings. Simply plug in the number of servers you are going to consolidate, and HyperGreen generates a report detailing your reductions in kilowatts, money and CO2 emissions. And use the Microsoft Integrated Virtualization ROI Tool to estimate your return on investment in Microsoft virtualization solutions, including server, desktop and management. As our customers have shown, the results can be transformational.

TechNet Radio: Green IT (Part 2 of 2): Virtualization

Eric Ostrowski — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:56:00 GMT

We continue our conversation on green IT with Microsoft environmental technologist Mark Aggar. In this episode, we focus on virtualization. Find out how you can use virtualization in your IT environment to cut costs and save energy. We also cover the December 2008 Microsoft Security Bulletins.

datacenter 4.0

Adam Bomb — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:00:00 GMT

By now, hopefully most people have seen Mike Manos' blog post on our next generation of datacenters, and seen the concept video of what the new datacenters will look like.
After I saw the video, I had a lot of questions about how this all works - I mean, what if it snows? How do I know my data is secure? With all your equipment in an environmentally sealed container, what do you do when a piece of equipment inside the container fails?
I was able to sit down with Christian Belady and David Gauthier, two of the architects behind the modular data center vision, to ask them some of these questions. They answered all these and more, including their thoughts on some of the other initiatives that are coming out in the industry. good stuff!

update: David and Christian have started a blog at http://blogs.technet.com/msdatacenters

tear the roof off the datacenter

Adam Bomb — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:32:00 GMT

apparently, if you're air cooling your datacenter, having a roof just gets in the way. Mike Manos (who've we had on Edge in the past) recently published a post on his blog about the vision his team is working on for future datacenter design, and they also released a concept video of what these new centers look like.
this is cool stuff, and really changes perception on what it takes to deploy a datacenter.
It looks like others have noticed Mike's post, and have already chimed in with their thoughts.

Evironmental Sustainability at Microsoft with Francois Ajenstat

Adam Bomb — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:29:00 GMT

Last month at the Connections conference, I was able to grab a few minutes with Francois Ajenstat after he finished delivering a keynote on some of the initiatives that companies should be working on: reducing the energy consumed by technology, managing your environmental footprint, and managing business practices.
He gives us a little background on what each of these mean - and tells you how to put $50 back in your pocket right now for each PC you manage.

TechNet Radio: Green IT Part 1 of 2

Eric Ostrowski — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:54:00 GMT

Green IT has been a popular buzzword lately, but what does it really mean? What does it take to get your organization to ‘Go Green’? We talk with Microsoft Environmental Technologist Mark Aggar to find out.

James Governor on Sustainable IT

Adam Bomb — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:01:00 GMT

James Governor is an an analyst with RedMonk, and he was in town recently to present at the Virtualization event that took place in Bellevue. I asked him a little bit about what it will take to get IT shops to take Green Computing seriously, and how virtualization fits into the Green Computing story.
You can read James' blog at James Governors Monkchips.

Be Green with Hyper-V at Singapore's Microsoft Innovation Center

Dennis Chung — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:07:00 GMT

Matty caught up with me and did a video for "ANWYCDFYSBWYSCDFY" video. I know its super duper long. It stands for "Ask not what you can do for your server, but what your server can do for you".

In this video, Matty asked me about what i was doing to be Green. So in the MIC, using Hyper-V, i mounted on a project to consolidate servers and reduced power consumption. We briefly talked about what was done and the benefits of it.