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“It's not whether or not you'll save money – it's a matter of when.”

In 2000 a typical server only consumed 100W of power, today the average server consumes at least four times as much. Combined with rising energy costs and increased server density, the growth of server farm & data center energy spending could far outpace the rate at which IT budgets grow, leaving less budget for other vital IT initiatives and projects.

Don’t just take our word for it?

• The Gartner Group states that energy costs may increase from 10% of the IT budget today to over 50% in the next few years.

• Forrester says servers would use about 30% of their peak electricity consumption while sitting idle.

• IDC says the cost to power servers will exceed the cost of the servers by next year.

•  The U.S. Department of Energy states that data center energy usage can be 100 times higher than those for a typical commercial building.

• IDC calculates that the total power and cooling bill for servers in the US stands at a whopping $14 billion a year, and if the current trends persist, the bill is going to rise to $50 billion by the end of the decade.

So what is the solution?

• Virtualization

• Virtualized Environments

• Storage Virtualization

• Application Virtualization

Our solutions are built using Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization & the Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V operating system to help create virtual machines that can leverage available hardware, run multiple operating systems, and manage both virtual and physical resources using the same industry-standard tools.
With Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, CalidCo can deliver end-to-end virtualization from the data center to the desktop. This groundbreaking software dynamically assigns server resources and provisions workloads through streamlined processes. This helps improve business availability during planned and unplanned down-time events, helps ensure a robust disaster-recovery process, and drives optimal resource utilization. As a result, you’ll be able to help:

•  Control costs. You can simplify, automate, and centralize IT operations to optimize resource utilization. By consolidating workloads onto fewer servers; by simplifying server, application and desktop management; and by efficiently managing workload operations, you can help
  lower costs and increase IT productivity. Adding additional capacity to the existing infrastructure can be easily done without investing in new hardware, IT labor &  power consumption.

• Improve service levels. You can help maximize system uptime by utilizing management and security tools. Our virtualization solutions can also help you simplify disaster and recovery planning and more efficiently plan and manage server maintenance. It is much easier and more affordable to add redundant capacity to the infrastructure to improve disaster recovery and business continuity.

•  Drive agility. You can quickly adapt your IT infrastructure according to business needs that can help drive organizational agility. This includes rapidly deploying new applications and operating systems and efficiently supporting business-critical legacy applications.
   

CalidCo can deliver end-to-end virtualization solutions that strengthen business continuity and scale rapidly to meet your company’s demands. Microsoft offers a comprehensive set of technologies to empower you to realize the promise of virtualization for your company. And CalidCo provides the kind of delivery assurance that you expect from a Microsoft partner.