The United States is going green.  All businesses are making a strong push to save energy and become more environmentally friendly.  The Obama Administration is putting forth policies that require a 30% cut of energy by 2015.  Are you ready to do your part?  Do you know how you can "go green" AND save a ton of money?  Ask TechPower, we have the answers that can help.

Virtualization, with VMware, is one of the hottest technologies on the market right now.  All 100 of the Fortune 100 companies are currently using some form of VMware Virtualization.  One of the main purposes of virtualization is server consolidation.  Did you know that under-utilized servers produce over 80 million tons of Carbon Dioxide?  Server Consolidation with virtualization can help do the following:

• Reduce hardware & operating costs by 50%
• Reduce energy costs by 80%
• Achieve up to a 15:1 server consolidation ratio

TechPower offers a Virtualization Assessment.  This consulting service will give you clear visibility of server consolidation opportunities of your existing physical IT infrastructure onto VMware virtual infrastructure. We assess your current server landscape to determine your potential costs and realized savings.

Green IT Virtualization Energy Incentives: Fast Facts!  Take a look!

Have you thought about going to a blade architecture?  In a study by IDC, customers can see up to 69% reduction of energy over 3 years by switching to blades.  You can go green and save money, for some companies switching to a blade environment reduced CapEx Costs by 36%. 

Monitoring and understanding the power consumption of the datacenter are key components to look at when trying to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership over time.  HP's Thermal Logic Technology combines monitoring, reporting, and adaptive management functionality of power and cooling resources within the BladeSystem enclosure.  This capability is enabled through built-in thermal instrumentation that affords BladeSystem manual or policy-based control of power consumption and cooling to match demand without decreasing processor performance.  This innovative technology comes standard with all HP C-Class Blades. 

The easiest and quickest way to start thinking green is by replacing your desktops.  Have you looked into HP's Thin Clients?  Thin Clients are computing devices that function as an access device across a network.  There is no hard drive or moving parts in a Thin Client so the cost of ownership is far less than a tradional PC.

• 5-7 year lifecycle (2-3 years longer than a tradional PC)
• 48% lower Cost of Ownership than a tradional PC
• Extremely Energy Efficient.  Some companies are requiring all computers to be Energy Star approved.

Also, Thin Clients bring end-user security back to the data room level.  No applications or data are stored on the Thin Client so if the device is lost, stolen, or damaged it is very easy to replace.

With the fast growing trend of high density servers the importance of efficient power and cooling solutions is higher now than ever.  TechPower works with APC to design the most efficient power and cooling solution for your company. 

With Right Sizing, High Efficiency UPS modules, and industry leading cooling solutions, APC and TechPower work together to address your company's power and cooling problems.

TechPower offers a Power and Cooling assessment.  A TechPower - APC Authorized Datacenter Design Engineer will visit the site for part of one business day and collect data pertaining to electrical loads, wiring practices, power quality, existing power protection equipment and environmental conditions.