Going Green with Virtualization Part 1: Virtual Tape
Monday, March 16th, 2009One of the hottest topics in IT these days is “Green”. When the term green is used in reference to IT, it usually means more than just being environmentally friendly. For Information Technology, green also means needing less money to pay the bills for power, cooling, datacenter floor space, and the gas needed to ship tapes back and forth between the datacenter and offsite storage or DR location.
So how is virtualization an enabling technology to “go green?” In this series, I will discuss a few of the ways virtualization can save money and do something nice for the planet at the same time.