As organizations deploy virtualization and increase their use of virtualization throughout the data center, it is critical that they also look at a holistic plan and strategy for managing energy consumption and energy costs. Reducing energy consumption in the data center is one of the key reasons to virtualize in the first place and a properly designed energy solution will provide the greatest cost savings and the greatest opportunity to optimize IT resources.

This white paper will discuss:

• Measuring energy efficiency
• The impact of virtualization and consolidation
• Safeguarding the virtualized environment
• And more