SWsoft, a leading provider of virtualization and automation software, reports on the energy-saving possibilities behind virtualization for hosting companies

Aug. 10, 2007 - (TopHosts News Brief) - SWsoft announced that their customers are realizing the energy-saving potential of virtualization with Virtuozzo.

While electric power costs mount, there’s more pressure to reduce energy consumption. An increasing amount of Web hosting providers and IT organizations worldwide are utilizing Virtuozzo virtualization software from SWsoft in an effort to “go green.”

“Virtuozzo delivers the highest density available in a virtualization solution, enabling hundreds of virtual environments on a single physical server, and so it offers the greatest potential for energy savings,” Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft, said in a company press release. “By using Virtuozzo to achieve their green computing goals, hosting providers can significantly reduce their energy usage while also realizing greater efficiency in their datacenter.”

Various SWsoft customers report they see the green potential of virtualization, including ServInt Internet Services, a hosting company, which estimates green efforts and savings of as much as 85 percent in electricity usage. Host Europe is another hosting company based in Germany, which estimates their virtualized hosting customers use 63 percent less electric power. And ikoula, a hosting company based in France, estimates they can save as much as 60 percent on electricity by moving customers from dedicated to virtualized servers.

As hosting companies run data centers with thousands of servers to supply website services, hosted applications and software-as-a-service (SaaS), they consume large amounts of computing resources. A 50,000-square-foot data center uses approximately 4 megawatts of power, the equivalent of 57 barrels of oil a day. Gartner Research reported recently that energy costs could soon account for more than 50 percent of the total information technology budget for a typical data center.

SWsoft Virtuozzo operating system virtualization software utilizes patented technology to create multiple, isolated virtual environments - or virtual private servers - on a single physical server and operating system. This makes it a very efficient use of hardware, software and other resources.

For more information, visit www.swsoft.com.