Server Consolidation and Carbon Management
Ideas International’s (IDEAS) web-based Server CAR (Consolidation Analysis Resource) is an online tool that rapidly analyzes server consolidation scenarios with a key focus on deriving and quantifying footprint, energy, and carbon emissions reductions.
Server CAR is an invaluable resource for those embarking on server consolidation and carbon emission reduction projects. It provides a quick methodology for recording and analyzing the aggregated performance and environmental profiles of installed servers, and it enables realistic comparisons against target replacement and virtualized servers to be made. By presenting users with a normalized view of performance and installation factors across different server generations and architectures, alternative consolidation solution scenarios can be evaluated against the most pressing criteria. User selections may be influenced by energy, footprint, performance, or price benefits.
The integrated carbon calculator highlights additional benefits in electricity cost, CO2e, and carbon emission reductions.
For the first time, users have access to the most comprehensive IT industry database of current and historical server configurations sold by the leading server manufacturers since 1996, with links to the powerful Competitive Profiles application suite.
Server CAR incorporates IDEAS’ unique Relative Performance Estimate 2 (RPE2) for per-processor/core performance rankings for all current and historical servers across x86/IA/RISC architectures. Each data point is matched to a granular environmental profile for that server option. In datacenter consolidation projects, both aspects are quantified together.
The high level of concern and focus on IT sustainability and carbon footprint reduction has made the inclusion of a purpose built carbon calculator a highly valued addition to Server CAR.
Responsible management of information technology assets has taken on a very significant new aspect with the growing concerns over global climate change and the subsequent need to minimize the carbon footprint from information technology power and cooling. Further, in terms of day to day IT operations, the increasing electricity consumption from expanding IT deployments is placing increased stress on the ability of power delivery infrastructure to meet business needs, and together with the increasing relative cost of electricity versus IT equipment cost, there is a greater focus on electricity consumption and expenditure.
Ideas International is providing much needed assistance to all organizations facing these challenges through the development of an integrated Carbon Calculator for its Server CAR product.
New server technology can enable very substantial reductions in carbon footprint and significant savings in electricity costs; however, most organizations lack the essential data and tools to plan the projects to achieve these benefits. The Carbon Calculator provides IT management with the essential analysis to assist in measuring and taking steps to meet these green IT challenges.
