Power Systems Energy Management

Concerns about server energy consumption are growing because of rising electric rates, higher oil prices, technology trends that result in higher power densities, and hefty increases in new server deployments over the past few years. Clients and manufacturers are now talking about systems that achieve greater performance and "eco efficiency" by reducing resource consumption.

Momentum is shifting towards consolidated and virtualized infrastructures to reduce the consumption of datacenter resources. IBM offers not only the products and services to help you make that shift, but also support for innovative technologies to help conserve energy and reduce costs.

Server consolidation and virtualization

Server consolidation is the process of centralizing business computing workloads to reduce cost, complexity, network traffic, management overhead and to optimize and simplify the existing IT infrastructure and provide a foundation for new solution investment and implementation. Server consolidation has many advantages including improving availability, reducing costs and complexity, and simplifying operations. Server consolidation can maximize an organization's return on investment in the data center. Consolidation also allows high levels of security and data integrity that are difficult to achieve in a distributed environment.

In the past, one of the greatest advantages that server consolidation provided was savings on floor space. By applying server consolidation, IT managers now talk about the power they have saved. A recent server consolidation using PowerVM™ study at IBM showed that server consolidation has the potential advantage of saving power consumption. This study showed an estimated 44% reduction of the power consumption by consolidating the applications run on twelve legacy servers onto one IBM System p5™ 550.

• Learn more about server consolidation
• Learn more about PowerVM
• Server virtualization and Consolidation - A case study

Project Big Green

IBM provides additional technologies and services that can help make your data center more energy efficient.

• Learn about to how to become more energy efficient