Viridity Saves IT Energy Costs

Veridity Software today released EnergyCheck, an application that measures server utilization and associated energy consumption.

According to Steve Keilen, vice president of marketing and inside sales for Viridity Software, the purpose of EnergyCheck is to simplfy the process of measuring energy consumption versus have to rely on a hodgepodge of tools. EnergyCheck installs in about seven minutes and after running for a week starts to identify opportunities for IT organizations to reduce energy consumption.

According to Keilen, customers that have deployed EnergyCheck have on average discovered that 30 percent of severs monitored had a utilization rate of less than 30 percent, 35 percent were between two and 10 percent, and only one server in every three servers had a utilization rate of over 10 percent.

The challenge, said Keilen, is helping IT organizations to identify which servers have low utilizaion rates, but also servers that are consuming too much energy trying to support workloads that may be too large for those server environments.