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Branded NightWatchman Server Edition, 1E believes it can tap into the market for powering down unused servers and saving hundreds of thousands of pounds in energy costs.
The firm said it commissioned research which calculated that 4.7 million servers currently deployed are doing no useful work.
IE defines useful work as servers 'running business apps with real users connected to them' and says its tool can separate the power used for business applications from that used for running server processes. When no business application activity is identified, the machine is powered down automatically.
Sumir Karayi, CEO of 1E said it was great that the world was finally catching up with 1E over nine years after he had started talking about power management.
According to calculations based on research commissioned by the company over $24 billion is wasted each year on hardware, maintenance, power and cooling for unused servers. The research found 65% of server managers admitted to virtualising unused servers and 84% are concerned about managing virtual server sprawl.
When it comes to measurement of server activity 1E says that three quarters of IT managers are using CPU use as a measure of work when in fact servers may simply be running management processes and not delivering any business value. The research also found 72% of server managers think 15% of their servers are doing no useful work.
The tool uses a server state called 'Drowsy Server' which continually monitors activity and minimizes energy use when no useful work is being performed without impacting the server availability. 1E says this can cut energy costs by 12%. A sophisticated power modeling algorithm enables energy consumption monitoring across all servers without any additional hardware and can report on energy consumption, cost, efficiency and CO2 emissions for all servers or group by location, department and application.
Dr Paul Toyne, head of sustainability at global building firm Bovis Lend Lease said his firm was looking at how equipment was being powered and was interesting in an elegance based approach to managing power and carbon emissions. 'If a system exists to power down systems for you, this takes away human error and drives efficiency.'
Branded NightWatchman Server Edition, 1E believes it can tap into the market for powering down unused servers and saving hundreds of thousands of pounds in energy costs.
The firm said it commissioned research which calculated that 4.7 million servers currently deployed are doing no useful work.
IE defines useful work as servers 'running business apps with real users connected to them' and says its tool can separate the power used for business applications from that used for running server processes. When no business application activity is identified, the machine is powered down automatically.
Sumir Karayi, CEO of 1E said it was great that the world was finally catching up with 1E over nine years after he had started talking about power management.
According to calculations based on research commissioned by the company over $24 billion is wasted each year on hardware, maintenance, power and cooling for unused servers. The research found 65% of server managers admitted to virtualising unused servers and 84% are concerned about managing virtual server sprawl.
When it comes to measurement of server activity 1E says that three quarters of IT managers are using CPU use as a measure of work when in fact servers may simply be running management processes and not delivering any business value. The research also found 72% of server managers think 15% of their servers are doing no useful work.
The tool uses a server state called 'Drowsy Server' which continually monitors activity and minimizes energy use when no useful work is being performed without impacting the server availability. 1E says this can cut energy costs by 12%. A sophisticated power modeling algorithm enables energy consumption monitoring across all servers without any additional hardware and can report on energy consumption, cost, efficiency and CO2 emissions for all servers or group by location, department and application.
Dr Paul Toyne, head of sustainability at global building firm Bovis Lend Lease said his firm was looking at how equipment was being powered and was interesting in an elegance based approach to managing power and carbon emissions. 'If a system exists to power down systems for you, this takes away human error and drives efficiency.'