Accelerate Your Migration to Green IT
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With Microsoft products and solutions, organizations can reduce the energy consumption of technology. By taking advantage of built-in power management features, increasing server utilization through virtualization technology, and managing IT infrastructure for efficiency, organizations can radically decrease energy consumption by their computing resources and supporting IT infrastructure (e.g., data center cooling infrastructure).
Benefits of Energy Efficient Computing
Reduced energy consumption helps organizations achieve significant cost savings, especially in data centers. Energy efficient computing also helps organizations minimize their direct and indirect carbon footprint.
Did You Know?
- U.S. enterprise data centers can spend up to 15–20 percent of their operating costs on electricity alone.
- Industry analysts estimate the annual cost of powering a server will soon exceed its acquisition cost.
The MAP Toolkit and Energy Efficient Computing
Organizations can use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit to quickly obtain comprehensive planning knowledge for migration to energy efficient computing technologies. MAP’s automated inventory and readiness assessment reports generate specific upgrade recommendations for migration to power-saving Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems. MAP also identifies suitable candidates for virtualization and makes recommendations on how physical servers might be placed in a Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized environment.
What Is the MAP Toolkit?
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations and virtualization without the use of any software agents. This versatile toolkit:
- Quickly discovers clients, servers, and applications across your IT environment.
- Conducts migration and virtualization assessments for your IT projects.
- Auto-generates reports and proposals.
- Scales well to small businesses as well as large enterprises.
Get Reports and Proposals for Migration to Green IT
By consolidating underutilized servers with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V hypervisor technology, you will run and cool your data centers using much less power. In addition, by streaming applications on demand to desktops and laptops with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), you will realize additional power and hardware efficiencies.
Virtualization not only “greens” your IT infrastructure by reducing carbon dioxide emissions, it saves you IT dollars.
Start uncovering “green” client and server infrastructure benefits by assessing your IT environment and getting the following proposals and reports from MAP:
- Power Savings Calculator and Proposal. Uncovers potential electricity and carbon dioxide savings for your desktops and servers, including the benefits of virtualization via Hyper-V.
- Server Migration Reports and Proposals. Windows Server 2008 and “virtualized guests by hosts” reporting.
- Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Migration Proposals and Reports. Prepare recommendations for application virtualization using App-V.
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