November 2010
by kfeichtner on November 29, 2010
Green House Data Newsletter – November 2010
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Get Burstable! |
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We're Growing! |
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Customer Spotlight |
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Green Tip: Move to a Cloud Platform |
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Cloud Servers Offer Burstability
Burstability is a cloud server's ability to quickly expand or "burst" to accommodate periodic traffic surges, such as seasonal traffic or sudden viral traffic. Once the high traffic period ends, the company simply retracts to their usual server capacity. This is not possible on a physical server or vps platform.
Before cloud servers, a growing business would utilize a larger, more expensive server to accommodate these traffic surges that only occurred a small percentage of time. Cloud servers offer a cost savings benefit because you only pay for the amount of resources that you actually use. If you need more CPU or RAM power, you can quickly access it.
Here's an example of seasonal traffic: Australian Open (Alexa)
 You can see how traffic surges to australianopen.com for their January tournament. Should they be paying for for a high priced dedicated server all year long to be ready for these visitors? A better choice would be a cloud server to service the small traffic they get most of the year, then they can burst in January to accommodate their visitors, resulting in a tremendous cost savings. Read more about cloud servers and burstability in our recent blog post.
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Customer Spotlight
Systemation is a corporate training company offering both onsite and virtual courses in project management, business analysis and agile development. For over 50 years, they've been helping companies succeed.
They chose Green House Data for the customized hybrid IT infrastructure solution combining both colocation and cloud hosting. This allowed them to embrace leading edge cloud technology while simultaneously integrating older generation hardware which supported their legacy systems. Additionally, they appreciated the level of control they were able to maintain over their infrastructure, thus making an easier transition to an office data center.
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We're Growing!
With our use of renewable energy, energy efficient practices and affordable pricing, we are happy to announce that Green House Data has just recently begun our search for our next green data center. We have visited potential properties in San Jose, Chicago and Dallas areas with plans to visit other facilities in Virginia, Illinois and Ohio.
This next data center will employ the same high energy efficiency standards as our Rocky Mountain location. It will also offer a second 100% green colocation opportunity for primary and secondary services to other locations in the US. Stay tuned! |
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Green Tip: Move from Physical Servers to a Cloud Server Platform
Server virtualization is one of the best and greenest technologies that could have happened to the IT world. Moving from a dedicated server environment to a cloud server platform can reduce energy usage by as much as 80% by giving companies the ability to consolidate their servers at a 15:1 rate. This can drastically reduce IT budgets because there are fewer servers to purchase, maintain, cool and power.
According to VMware, for every one server virtualized the following benefits occur:
- There is an energy savings of 7000kWh or about $700 annually.
- 4 tons of CO2 emissions are eliminated
- Improves server utilization rates from 5-15% to 60-80%. Running fewer,
highly utilized servers frees up space and power.
Contact us today to learn how you can save money and be greener at the same time by utilizing a Cloud Server platform.
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Green House Data
304 Progress Circle, Suite B
Cheyenne, WY 82007
info@greenhousedata.com
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