Government Technology - February 2008 - (Page 48) green government S TAT E | LO C A L | F E D E R A L Synopsis: Oregon consolidates 11 data centers, slashing power costs by 35 percent, reducing energy consumption and simplifying IT. j j Agency: Oregon Department of Administrative Services. Contact: Mark Reyer, state data center administrator, 503/378-2176, Mark. Reyer@das.state. or.us. Oregon Data Centers D FEB_08 Go Green ata centers devour more electricity than almost any other state government facility, but few states have implemented green data-center initiatives. Oregon, however, is now one of the first to do so. On Dec. 13, 2007, Oregon announced it consolidated 11 power-hungry data centers into the Oregon State Data Center (SDC), an energy-efficient facility located in Salem. Before switching to new equipment, project leaders moved the state’s existing data center equipment into the new central facility, cutting power bills by 35 percent, according to Mark Reyer, state data center administrator for Oregon. State government consolidates 11 data centers into one energy-efficient facility. you multiply that by 1,500 servers sitting in the data centers — you have a tremendous amount of capacity that is being underutilized, but can’t be allocated somewhere else,” Reyer said. The SAN pools all of the data, eliminating the problem of unused excess capacity. “This gives us incredible flexibility to have on-demand computing so we don’t have oversized and underutilized assets, such as servers waiting for peak periods,” Reyer said. “We can have the amount of capacity we need and be able to allocate it on an as-needed basis for Access Pool Among the new technologies used for this data center is a storage area network (SAN) installed to centralize data storage, rather than using hard disk drives on individual servers, which are major power drains. “If you have four or five 300-gigabyte hard drives on a server, and you’re using 50 percent of their capacity — and then 53 BY A N D Y O P S A H L | F E AT U R E S E D I T O R C O N T I N U E D O N PAG E 48 http://www.govtech.com
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