These slides were presented at Cal Net Technology Group's 2010 Open House co-hosted by Microsoft. The event awarded attendees with the opportunity to take an inside look at 2010 IT trends, cost savings, and “greening” techniques.

4. Presented by Zachary Schuler

5. Virtualization technology is a way of making one physical computer function as if it were two or more computers Today’s computers are so much more powerful that even just a few years ago that many machines are underutilized

8. Have you ever wanted to have a copy or copies of your production systems for testing? Cal Net Example: 4 accounting servers into 1. In summary, virtual environments are easy to make isolated copies of systems for testing

11. In the before picture you have several servers not working all that hard but each is consuming electricity In the after example one server is powering all three servers workloads but consuming the electricity of just one machine

12. Have heat issues in your computer/server room? Heat is the #1 killer of electronic equipment, reducing its lifespan and causing outages With less servers, cooling needs are reduced.