SWsoft Virtuozzo Customers Gain from Going Green

With escalating electric power costs and increasing pressure to reduce energy consumption, SWsoft says a growing number of service providers and IT organizations worldwide are using the company’s Virtuozzo virtualization software to reduce their use of electricity and to “go green.” According to Gartner Research, energy costs could soon account for more than 50 percent of the total information technology budget for a typical data center. Need a better reason to go green?

Several SWsoft customers are realizing the green potential of virtualization with Virtuozzo in significant ways:

• ServInt Internet Services (www.servint.net), a leading hosting company based in the United States, estimates that their green efforts have produced a savings of as much as 85 percent in electricity usage for every hosted customer that transitions from a single physical server to a virtual server.

• Host Europe (www.hosteurope.de), a large hosting company based in Germany, estimates that their virtualized hosting customers use 63 percent less electric power.

• ikoula (www.ikoula.com), a hosting company based in France, estimates they can save as much as 60 percent on electricity by moving customers from dedicated to virtualized servers. The reduced power consumption also means delaying additional infrastructure investment to provide more power or space.

“Virtuozzo delivers the highest density available in a virtualization solution, enabling hundreds of virtual environments on a single physical server, and so it offers the greatest potential for energy savings,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft. “By using Virtuozzo to achieve their green computing goals, hosting providers can significantly reduce their energy usage while also realizing greater efficiency in their datacenter.”