Our customers are amazing. Everywhere they look, they find different use cases for Scalent V/OE whether it's local high availability, disaster recovery, managing a virtual environment, or building a shared pool of test and development servers. Last week, we visited a company that is looking to improve their DR processes after having already installed hypervisor technologies in their data center. "We don't care what you do for Disaster Recovery, we have a very immediate use case to test with your product..." the customer said. It ends up that they want to go green in their data center operations by eliminating 1:1 redundant servers, eliminating manual server failover, and powering on servers only when they're utilized. Since Scalent V/OE has always taken a heterogeneous view of the data center, we have the ability to power on and off servers from any manufacturer, and found a very happy customer.

Going green can yield benefits to companies in any industry or geography because data centers are the biggest energy hogs in most businesses with their built-in redundancies and staggering amounts of equipment. Simultaneously, some ambitious companies are building environmentally-friendly buildings to house their green data center. If that's in your corporate culture and budget, then all the power to you. For the majority of us, there are smaller steps you can take to save on your power and cooling costs for your server farms.

Most importantly, you should know that Scalent is a member of PG&E's virtualization program in California, making customers who install Scalent V/OE software eligible for a rebate for virtualization and consolidation projects. Please go to the following website for more information on PG&E's application and acceptance process: http://www.pge.com/biz/rebates/hightech/htee_incentives.html .

Additionally, Scalent's power management capabilities enable data center managers to power on and off servers as appropriate which will in turn drive down your energy costs when any particular server isn't utilized for hours, days, weeks, or more. When necessary, you can bring servers back online quickly and automatically.

Then if you upgrade to energy-efficient servers from major hardware manufacturers, you'll also see savings in the amount of kW/rack consumed. Newer technologies are more energy efficient, such as HP's BladeSystem c-Class servers which offer thermal logic technologies to reduce power consumption and insight controls to lower maintenance costs. Go to http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/c-class-components.html for more information. HP also offers trade-in, donation, and recycling programs which provide a simple way to make purchasing newer technology more affordable, while ensuring that older equipment is reused or recycled in an environmentally-friendly way.

The Unisys ES3000 family of blades, entry, and midrange servers can deliver high availability and excellent serviceability with their completely tool-less and modular components. Go to http://www.unisys.com/products/enterprise__servers/midrange__servers/index.htm for more information on their products.

With Scalent, you can leverage our product for any use case. You'll benefit from the flexibility and power of our infrastructure virtualization product, while going green at the same time. Sounds interesting? Come talk with us.

Alana Achterkirchen, Director of Marketing
Mahesh Natarajan, Director of Pre-Sales & Field Engineering

December 2007