Whitepaper: Increasing Energy Efficiency with x86 Servers in associaion with IBM & Intel

The current economic crisis has most companies scrambling for ways to get the most out of every dollar they spend. This process leads to increasing uses of automation, which adds costs to IT at the same time business are looking to rein-in costs. Many IT executives have moved to consolidating data centers and servers with virtualization and blade servers. However, to date, many of the gains have been illusory due to high server costs, lack of effective virtualization and management, and inefficiencies that make it expensive to power and cool these consolidated systems.

Most large enterprises are now very familiar with the problems associated with escalating power and cooling costs in the data center. As more business processes have become automated, storage requirements have increased as well. This additional centralized capacity has resulted in a significant rise in energy and cooling costs for these systems.