Awesome Virtualization CO2 Savings Calculator
Virtualization February 12th, 2008I came across this today, the "Oriel Virtualization Calculator". It’s a snazzy flash web site that calculates approximate CO² offset from Virtualizing your servers.
It’s really cool. IT was done by the boys at Oriel, here in Australia. So the dollar values are most likely in AUD =)
So [based on the website] if we had 1200 servers to Virtualize (or were originally provisioned as Virtual Machines) you would save:
- 13,500 tonnes of CO²
- equivalent to planting 59,000 trees
- Offsetting the emissions of 3,000 Cars
- …and a whole bunch of $$$$
I thought this is an awesome and innovative new way to take a fresh look at Virtualization. …and made my day with a good chuckle. Anyway Go and check out the "Oriel Virtualization Calculator" for yourself.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Wow, that’s actually quite cool.
I wish Microsoft would do something along those lines for consolidating licenses :)
February 12th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
really, really cool and interesting !
February 12th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Of course this is also true with MS Virtual Server/Hyper-V and Dave Microsoft do allow consolidation of licenses when running in a virtual environment.