The Economics of Energy Efficiency

The Economics of Energy EfficiencyRoger Bearpark

About Hillingdon
Second-largest London borough (250,000 residents)
Covers 42-square miles and includes 239 parks, Heathrow Airport and Brunel University
Supports schools, social services, waste collection and roads
Completing five-year programme to move from a basic utility provider to more innovative services

The Hillingdon Vision
“To be a Modern, well managed council Delivering Excellent Services”

Why We Do What We Do & Who We Do It For
It is not really that complicated:
Just do more
For less
Oh, and if you can, quicker, more reliably etc etc

Strategic Overview
Reasons driving virtualization
Rapid data growth (100% each year)
Cost concerns associated with government organizations
Desire to increase efficiency
Greener ICT strategy
Operating systems
Windows Server
Linux
Novell Netware
Key applications
Benefits assessment software
Novell GroupWise
Onyx CRM

The Road Well Travelled – Data Growth
Plans & maps
Documents
Photographic evidence
Statutory duties – retention of data:
7 days, a month, 12 months, 5 years, 30 years
Adoption Records, 100 years

Data Growth
# of TBs Consumed

The Investment
Time & Expertise
The Right Partners
The Right Feeling
The Right Return

Why Compellent?
Automated Tiered Storage provides significant savings without manual classification
Thin provisioning increases utilization
Simplified storage management saves staff time to work on more innovative progress
Scalability for future growth
Affordable replication solution allows increased recoverability
Better position to support our users and citizens

Innovation Comes in Different Ways

It’s Better Than Wheelbarrows

Compellent’s Energy-Saving SAN
Traditional
Compellent
20 TB system, RAID 10, 50% utilised
Might require 274 enterprise-class disk drives (10,000 RPM 146 GB drives)
Power consumed: 6,020 watts per year
Tiered Storage
14 enterprise-class disks (10,000 RPM 146 GB drives), RAID 10
7 SATA disks(7,200 RPM 750 GB), RAID 5
Power consumed: 429 watts
Savings of 5500 watts

Additional Energy-Saving Improvements
Replaced 2700 desktop CRT displays with TFT
Added power-down scripts and power-sensing blocks
Replaced 311 LaserJet and DeskJet printers
Added flexible and mobile work programmes
Dedicate collection/delivery days for equipment
Consider supplier location during selection
Redeploy equipment to schools, foster care, etc.
Decommission hardware and use as support stock
Provide remote support tools

The Payback – Energy Savings Alone
Data Progression saved up to $9,000 in power
Simply by using SATA disk
VMware integration saved $30,000 in power annually
Reduced consumption from 34 kWhr to 1.1 kWhr
Heat output for physical servers is 82155 Btu, compared to 11535 Btu for the virtual

Additional Savings
Reduced Novell GroupWise mailbox recovery from up to 36 hours to less than 30 minutes
Easy-to-manage SAN removed the need to hire an IT position (approximately $75,000)
Additional $28,500 services savings
Reduced accommodation from 3 rooms to 2
Calculated carbon footprint reduction 33 tonnes
Contributes to the overall saving of 175 tonnes comparing new to old working practice

Fame & Glory

It All Adds Up
Clever storage doesn't have to be technically difficult
But it can deliver much more than you might imagine
There can be economy only where there is efficiency. Benjamin Disraeli.

Thank You!
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The Economics of Energy Efficiency

by Compellent Technologies on Apr 22, 2010

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