The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA International) has reduced its physical and carbon footprint by transitioning its data center infrastructure into a virtualized environment.
The consolidation cut AFCEA’s data center from 12 servers to two principal servers and two backup servers. The streamlined operations reduced both energy consumption and space requirements, cutting the nonprofit organization’s power and cooling costs by 50 percent.
The virtualized environment increased server utilization from 10 to 60 percent per server, further reducing the need for additional physical servers. It also allows the organization to set up new servers on demand and permits operations to automatically failover, which has substantially reduced downtime, says HP.
e from Environmental Leader.
