Green IT: Cloud Computing
Thursday, April 2, 2009 by Alicia Gaba
The green movement has lost a little bit of its fervor with all of the economic problems going on.  However, BlueLock still thinks being green is great when it comes to IT infrastructure.  Not only does being green help save the environment, but it saves your company money.  With the economic situation in hand, green (cloud) computing is a win-win game all companies should be playing.

So how do we make our data center green?  Two major things: VMware virtual servers and HP LeftHand SAN.  BlueLock has realized a strong "green technology" benefit in terms of reduced power and cooling consumption and space requirements.

BlueLock CTO Pat O'Day explains:

"There is absolutely a green efficiency that would be impossible to achieve without the HP P4000 SAN in concert with virtualization.  We have 500 virtual servers running in a footprint of one or two cabinets that would otherwise take 10 cabinets and much more power and cooling capacity."

BlueLock has created a green, scalable, cost-efficient and 100% virtual platform by utiilizing the VMware vCloud and HP LeftHand P4000 SAN solution.



Comments for Green IT: Cloud Computing
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 by Kin Lane :
Definitely a topic that needs more attention. As cloud providers grow and private clouds become popular, green is very important. I'd like to see whitepapers on green data center standards that companies can use when planning their data center deployment.

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