Marty Stephens of LexisNexis on Managing Data Center Energy with Viridity Software
Posted on Fri, Jul 23, 2010 @ 02:15 PM
Today, Michael Rowan, CTO & Co-Founder of Viridity Software, and Marty Stephens, Director of Information Technology of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, discussed how Viridity EnergyCenter software helped LexisNexis Risk Solutions improve energy efficiency and lowered their power bill.
Marty, who manages Critical Infrastructure for the LexisNexis RAIG Alpharetta Data Center, currently has a Tier III+ data center with plans to become a Tier IV data center by the end of 2010. His data center supports an annual revenue stream of over a billion dollars. Prior to using Viridity EnergyCenter software, LexisNexis Risk Solutions was able to cut $1 million by getting rid of useless servers in their data center – but that was by putting a team on project managers working extra hours on the project. “We could have done the whole project with the push of a button if we had started with Viridity EnergyCenter.” Marty went on to say that he can take the information he gets from using Viridity EnergyCenter in his data center, directly to other IT managers, Facility managers, and C-level executives to justify the immediate ROI of the software when he shows the power savings gained with a more efficiently run data center. “Every dollar saved in the data center is a dollar in the bank for my company,” he says.