There sure is a lot of propeller-headed, pocket-protected computer geek language to be digested when you start researching consolidation and virtualization. Ironically, much of it all seems so, um, virtual.
But one case highlighted by Sun Microsystems is pretty convincing that, despite all the seemingly ephemeral talk about containers and partitioning and logical domains, there’s some Real World dollars and cents benefits to it all.
KnowledgeBase Marketing’s decision to use Sun virtualization resulted in cutting the company’s total cost of ownership by 40 percent. It reduced administration time by about 50 percent and it brought an 86 percent cut in transaction costs.
Man, they can throw out the percentages! Here are more: A 70 percent reduction in channel utilization; a 25 percent drop in tape costs; a 200 percent increase in tape capacity and (drum roll please) a 300 percent improvement in 1/0 throughput.
Blinding me with science! For more information, please visit www.electronicdatagirl.com
