We expect the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to operate efficiently. And indeed, the agency is making good on its mandate to achieve net-zero operations. According to this Energy.gov post, NREL saved $88,000 in its 2010 fiscal year by, in large part, taking a virtualization-heavy approach to IT. By consolidating servers and shifting to a [...]
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Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) makes a lot of sense on paper. Centralize management and maintenance by servers handle the brunt of the heavy lifting and let your employees interact with technologically lean, energy-efficient thin clients. In reality — and despite the claims of VDI vendors — companies have a couple of concerns, performance being chief [...]
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