Your business can save electricity and money by using our Virtualised Servers!

Using a single server running multiple virtual machines is far more energy efficient than running many single servers!

Independent testing shows a range of power consumption characteristics for servers and but a conservative estimate might be around 70W draw averaged across a 24 hour period, for a server with several modern disk drives and power optimisation settings active.

In 1 year that amounts to (24 hours x 365 days x 70W = 613 KWh  / year)

Simply by running an optimised KVM server, you can get far more out of one single hardware system, by replacing multiple physical systems and , despite a slightly higher average power consumption for a virtualised server, there the more VMs you run instead of physical systems, the more the net savings.

Each system you replace with a virtual machine can save on average around 70W, average over a 24 hour period, amounting to around 613 KWh / year (for a server permanently left on).

Where a Virtual server is replacing even just 6 physical servers, the electricity savings could amount to around £1000 per year, but our server platforms can run a many more servers than this.

A range of figures for server power consumption are available in many independent studies, available at various websites, and we advise interested parties to conduct their own research.