The growth in server shipments has continued unabated for the last 20 years. Moore’s law has held true, with server performance doubling every 18 months, while maintaining the same amount of electrical power used. But configuration complexities have robbed the servers of delivering on this performance curve. Complex and performance hungry applications are being starved and unable to access the inherent power of the servers due to misconfigurations and untuned components.
“Lack of optimization results in as much as an 80% loss of performance”
In order to make up for this lost performance, more and more servers are installed, with the result that datacenters are consuming an unprecedented amount of power. This density of power consumption has caught the attention of several government agencies. In 2008, the Environment Protection Agency created the Energy Star initiative for servers and on May 15, 2009 the Tier 1 specification was released.
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=prod_development.server_efficiency_benchmark
Tier 1 created a template for server manufacturers to create an energy efficient server. Tier 2, scheduled for release in 2010 is designed to evaluate the efficiency of active servers - while they are completing actual computing. A rating is being developed 
that will show actual server capacity per watt used. Tuning a server will improve this rating in the same way tuning a car improves the Miles Per Gallon.
10% more datacenter efficiency would reduce carbon emissions equivalent to the elimination of 753,820* cars. This efficiency would also save companies an estimated USD $6.2B in yearly capital and operational expense.
Veloxum’s iPTE helps curb this tremendous appetite for power hungry servers by optimizing the existing servers and putting them in concert with the infrastructure, increasing server capacity with no increase in power consumption. Veloxum is part of the EPA Energy Star initiative and actively involved in the creation of the SPECpower rating tool.
At Veloxum we are looking for IT shops that want to help us refine the details of how to measure and improve server capacity. You will benefit by generating more computing power, from your existing servers, while maintaining your same electrical power footprint. We automate the tuning process, you concentrate on how to use that increased capacity to add business value. You business unit managers will appreciate you, and Mother Earth will thank you.
* Source: www.TerraPass.com and “Estimating Regional Power Consumption By Servers: A Technical Note”, Jonathan G. Koomey, PHD, Dec 5th 2007To request a report showing actual performance results for customers who have used iPTE to improve the capacity of their existing server, while using the same amount of electricity fill out the form below: