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Totally agree on the desktop question
Back in 2001, during the California Energy rolling blackouts, I was working with a very very large company faced with a suddenly skyrocketing electric bill. We decided to do an analysis of all the desktops that were left on when everyone went home at night, and discovered we could save $20K a month in just one building alone if everyone would just kindly turn off their machines before going home.

Fat chance, even today, getting users to cooperate on that one!

Virtualization is a key to helping reduce energy consumption in the server room. Personally, I work with XENsource products, while many of you work with VMWare products. I am still amazed, even today, at how much capacity our servers can support multiple OSes and barely take a hit on the physical server's performance. Pushing to consolidate more servers into virtualized environments makes absolute sense.

An interesting note: PG&E of the west coast, recently offered a special rebate program. For every server you remove from your company (and essentially virtualize it if you need to keep that server), PG&E offers a $300 rebate. When you combine the savings from a rebate + decreased energy consumption + savings on warranty support per physical server from the manufacturer, the average customer would reap $1,300 in the first year alone.

Virtualization makes absolute sense in the data center. Now back to those stubborn desktop users!
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