Elastra Makes Its Cloud Even Greener
Elastra has incorporated energy efficiency intelligence into its Cloud Server solution, allowing customers to define which efficiency metrics are important to them and then rely on the software to route each application to the optimal resources with their internal cloud environments. Elastra’s efforts are just the latest in a growing trend toward saving data center costs by using the least possible amount of power to accomplish any given task. Especially in the internal cloud space, power management capabilities are becoming a must-have , with vendors from Appistry to VMware offering tools to migrate workloads dynamically and power down unneeded servers. What sets apart Elastra’s approach is its focus on application needs as opposed to just server utilization rates. After Elastra’s ECML and EDML markup languages determine application and resource properties, respectively…
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