Are your servers wasting energy?
NightWatchman Server Edition targets the billions of IT spend wasted each year on servers that are not doing any useful work. Traditional monitoring tools primarily focus on availability and performance but provide little insight on whether a server is providing any business value.
NightWatchman Server Edition revolutionizes the measurement of power usage and activity across physical and virtual servers and answers the question, “Are these servers being used for useful and productive work?”. This information is the key to making data centers and servers more efficient, reducing redundant infrastructure and avoiding future spend on new hardware.
The trends toward internet based services, cloud computing and centrally stored data means server numbers are increasing, as is electricity use and therefore CO2 emissions. U.S. data centers used 61 billion kWh of electricity in 2006, representing 1.5% of all U.S. electricity consumption and double the amount consumed in 2000. We can no longer deny that server energy consumption is a problem, and one that’s only getting worse. The good news is that there is now a solution for organizations that want to do something about it.
Useful Work Analysis
NightWatchman Server Edition provides continual analysis for physical and virtualized environments and enables the IT decision maker to answer the question, “Are these servers being used for useful and productive work?” This information is the key to making data centers and servers more efficient, reducing redundant infrastructure and avoiding future spend on new hardware.
- Useful Work™ Analysis allows you to identify when your servers are being productive and when they are wasting energy
- Drowsy Server® continuously monitors activity and dynamically minimizes energy consumption when there is no Useful Work being performed without impacting the server availability
For the first time, IT managers can confidently make decisions about improving the efficiency of their servers. They can set policies and rules about when and how these devices are used, or even removed all together.
Displays wasted energy at a glance
Instant visibility and reporting
NightWatchman Server Edition goes way beyond IT energy consumption and power management; this solution will change the way organizations provision, manage and pay for server environments.
Supporting on-board instrumentation where available, or using a sophisticated power modelling algorithm, NightWatchman Server Edition gives you easy access to report on energy consumption, cost, efficiency and CO2 emissions. Available for all servers (physical, virtual, Windows(R) or Unix) and with many views (by hardware, location, department and more) some of the in-built reports include:
- Dashboard view
- Decommissioning analysis
- Virtual Utilization analysis
- Useful Work
- Busiest servers
- Waste and savings
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