Innovation in Green data centre fabric can save millions of dollars per year

A survey of CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT executives who attended the 2008 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium by Voltaire, a company that designs and develops server and storage switching and software solutions has found that 90 percent of executives surveyed said they believe that greening their data centres will be crucial to meeting their companies’ business objectives in 2009, and 57 percent said they believe going green gives them a competitive advantage. Yet, 76 percent do not have a committed budget for a greening policy. Voltaire claims that a company with five data centres worldwide, and 3,000 servers per data centre, can save approximately USD 7,400,000 per year using the Voltaire unified fabric. Unified fabrics reduce power consumption by consolidating and virtualizing their data centre interconnects without sacrificing performance.