Virtual Hosting – Save the Environment

The phenomenon of virtual hosting continues to grow in the IT world and the efficient pooling of servers can reduce energy consumption in your company, whilst saving the planet. 

How much energy does your business consume? Are you doing everything you can to ensure that you are distributing and applying resources in an efficient way? Virtual hosting is the long-awaited answer to the 240 kilos of fossil fuels, 22 kilos of chemicals and 1,500 kilos of water used to manufacture just one desktop computer.

Taking responsible action for the environment is something that is highly encouraged, not only in your own household, but with businesses. The obvious actions include limited printing, using recycled and recyclable office stationary and supplies, promoting the importance of sustainability with clients and customers, and initiating car pools. But the pooling together of servers can surprisingly make a difference to your energy consumption.

Measurable Savings with Virtual Hosting

Today, energy consumption is a critical issue for any organisation, big or small.  Corporate Social Responsibility can help you gain new business, win tenders and even save a great deal of money. So where do we start? We can make sure that paper is recycled, and we can ensure that lights are turned off when we leave a meeting room. But is that it? Virtual hosting tackles the answers that we can’t physically do ourselves.

Computers are extremely energy intensive to produce and use up a large amount of materials. Unfortunately, it is close to being impossible to run a company without the use of technology. Computers and laptops are absolutely essential in most offices and in-house applications and platforms require at least one server. Virtual hosting is the pooling together of many servers – this guarantees 100% resilience and utter efficiency. 

Energy Efficiency – See Calculable Results

Typically, an internal server is likely to get only 5-15% usage during the time they are powered on. The biggest problem with IT is underutilisation. With such little usage of a typical server, this means that underutilisation can be as high as 95%. Virtual hosting from VMware conducts server consolidation to a ratio of 15:1 or more.

Interested in VMware? If you would like to boost your hardware utilisation by as much as 85% and make incredible savings on your energy bills, contact Commensus today. Commensus brings you cutting edge technology, unrivalled support and affordability. 

Cut back on your bills – call Commensus on 0208 661 4650 for more information.