(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With the goal of finding ways to reduce power consumption in data centers, the Energ-IT project has created a test data centre that switches from a traditional IT infrastructure into a virtualized one in order to determine benchmarks on green savings as well as to identify a set of actions that can be applied to the data center as it moves to a virtualized infrastructure.
Based on its findings using the test data center, the Energ-IT discussed its initial findings in the workshop “Models and actions for reducing IT energy consumption,” which happened December 11, 2009 in Milan, organized by Fondazione Politecnico di Milano in cooperation with the European Commission. The workshop was presented by Neptuny (www.neptuny.com) and by the other team members of the Energ-IT project including Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione del Politecnico di Milano, Beta 80 Group, and Enter.
According to Neptuny’s Monday announcement, the workshop provided insight into the intermediate results of the Energ-IT project and provided a venue for discussing paths and tools needed to develop Green IT strategies for the 21st century.
Neptuny chief technology officer Paolo Cremonesi, who is also a member of the Energ-IT steering committee, said Neptuny’s involvement in the test data center underscores its commitment to developing solutions to predict data center utilization and power consumption.
“Neptuny has always been focused on Green IT and its flagship product, Caplan, in addition to adopting SPECpower, the first industry-standard SPEC benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of volume server class and multi-node class computers, is possibly the only Capacity Planning solution that can take into account facilities KPIs (i.e. factors such as power, cooling, raised floor space and load or rack space) in its analyses, models and reports so as to effectively support Green IT initiatives,” Cremonesi said in a statement.
Energ-IT’s goals include identifying a set of green re-engineering actions to be applied to legacy systems without necessarily replacing them, empirically assessing related energy savings, and comparing savings with top market solutions by means of a test data center that represents the best state of the art energy saving technology.
