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Permalink Reply by Burt Klein on July 16, 2012 at 12:02pm

This has become one hot topics over the past several months... The focus on "green computing" has brought a fair amount of focus to Service Virtualization.  It is very important that you take a good look at this industry trend as it will show very positively on your organization as well as potential financial impacts.

There are multiple fronts where SV can assist in reducing the carbon footprint.

The major items that you need to keep in mind with SV is that it will help reduce overall hardware footprint thus saving on electrical output for power, cooling and other environmental factors.  The amount of savings will be dependent on how you leverage SV within your organization.  If you choose to use a blade solutions, internal cloud or external cloud you will increase your savings over the traditional hardware approach.

Measuring the carbon footprint can be difficult but coming up with a consistent format and formula is possible.  Please be sure to include all of your infrastructure teams when creating the approach and formulas as you want to include the server hardware, network components, facilities, etc...

Permalink Reply by Jayakrishnan sasikumar on July 19, 2012 at 6:17am

Thanks Burt. 

when we say the reduction in hardware footprint, need to consider the fact that VSE needs server which will be an addition to the HW footprint. Have we done any comparison of the same or case studies?
Burt Klein said:

This has become one hot topics over the past several months... The focus on "green computing" has brought a fair amount of focus to Service Virtualization.  It is very important that you take a good look at this industry trend as it will show very positively on your organization as well as potential financial impacts.

There are multiple fronts where SV can assist in reducing the carbon footprint.

The major items that you need to keep in mind with SV is that it will help reduce overall hardware footprint thus saving on electrical output for power, cooling and other environmental factors.  The amount of savings will be dependent on how you leverage SV within your organization.  If you choose to use a blade solutions, internal cloud or external cloud you will increase your savings over the traditional hardware approach.

Measuring the carbon footprint can be difficult but coming up with a consistent format and formula is possible.  Please be sure to include all of your infrastructure teams when creating the approach and formulas as you want to include the server hardware, network components, facilities, etc...

Permalink Reply by Burt Klein on July 20, 2012 at 7:54am

Your point is very valid. If you choose to look at the Green footprint, which is probably a good idea, you need to take a wholelistic approach. Of the companies that I have worked with there has always been a savings be it projected growth no longer being necessary or existing equipment being reduced due to SV.