Geek Central: Virtualisation
The economy is fast becoming digitised – photos, music, newspapers, movies, books, shopping, networking. This is a good thing from a dematerialisation point of view, but it is creating a vast world of energy intensive server farms. And, it turns out that each server spends the cast majority of its day idle, wasting energy on its own innards and cooling.
The big new thing is ‘virtualisation’ which maximises the use of each server, slashing the number of servers required and thus the amount of energy required to run the new economy. For those who want to know more, the clever young man in the video will explain…