Multi-Billion Dollar Business Deploys Viridity DCIM Software – Saves Over $1M

2011 Green Enterprise IT Award Winner Outstanding IT Product in a User Deployment Viridity Software and Client (confidential)

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In this session, the winner of the 2011 Green Enterprise IT Award in the Outstanding IT Product in a User Deployment category will present their Award-winning case study profiling an IT product that improved data center energy efficiency in a client installation.

A Viridity Software customer, a well-known and highly respected multi-billion dollar business, recently constructed a new data center.  Within just three years, through consolidation, acquisition and organic growth, floor space consumption was growing dangerously high and the Viridity customer recognized that something must be done.  They recognized that here were numerous servers on the floor that were underutilized and/or not being used for business critical activity (if at all).  However, at the time, there was no easy tool to identify which was which.  The customer’s data center team embarked upon a project to tag servers with red, yellow or green tags.  Red signified the server was a prime candidate to be virtualized, consolidated or eliminated all together.  Yellow indicated it would take some work, but the server could be consolidated.  Green meant the server’s utilization was fully optimized with business critical applications and could be left alone.  Needless to say, a key element of this process was working with business-line management to help to identify applications and data that were still highly critical vs. applications and data that could be consolidated, archived, or purged.  When the process was complete, the project lead at the customer felt his data center “had a bad case of the measles” – red tags dominated the floor and were dealt with right away (took about three months).

The next step was to address the yellow-tagged servers.  This involved crafting a business case that they could present to the CFO, in order to obtain the funding required to embark on a virtualization initiative for the next round of consolidation.  Again, this process was highly necessary and the ROI substantial, but it took an inordinate amount of time and resource away from IT activity that could have more directly affected the bottom-line.

The project lead then discovered a relatively new company Viridity Software and its recently announced EnergyCenter – data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software.  Within just a few hours of deployment, EnergyCenter could do exactly what it took his company numerous months to complete – at just the press of a button!  EnergyCenter was able to provide the customer with a fast and easy means by which to inventory data center assets, as well as understand the connection between the physical infrastructure, IT equipment and applications.  Once these connections were fully understood, actionable strategies were also provided that would help the customer to maintain a more efficient, less expensive, highly optimized, eco-friendly, sustainable data center moving forward. 

After the project was complete the customer was able to demonstrate over a million dollars of savings across the board in power, software licensing, maintenance, etc