Virtual Linux Could Be Answer To Costly Data Centers
Forget the new-product hype. The biggest buzz at last week's LinuxWorld conference was the potential of Linux in the data center.
Lenovo and Novell showed off the first Linux ThinkPad, and Hewlett-Packard pledged its support for Debian Linux. Yet despite the show of big-name vendor support at last week's LinuxWorld conference, the biggest buzz involved the prospect of Linux virtualization taking over more of the data center.
Guru Vasudeva, enterprise chief architect at Nationwide Mutual Insurance, said during one presentation that his company plans to consolidate 600 Linux servers as virtual machines on two IBM mainframes by year's end.
The move will cut electricity use, data center space, and server costs, amounting to projected savings of $15 million in the next three years, Vasudeva said. Approximately 350 of those servers already have been consolidated. Before the project began, 78% of the company's 5,000 servers were using 10% or less of their capacity, he said.
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