The widening reach of digital technology and increasing AI workloads are helping to increase global carbon emissions, with predictions that electricity use in data centres alone will double between 2022 and 2026.
With the technology industry facing various legislation ordering it to tackle its emissions, France-headquartered EasyVirt is offering companies an “easy-to-use” platform to look into their systems. It says it can help them make those systems more efficient and cheaper to run, and cut their carbon emissions at the same time.
Its DC Scope software focusing on data centre infrastructure, its DC NetScope offering concentrating on network deployment and interconnectivity efficiencies, and environment-focused CO2 Scope have enabled the firm to sign up over 100 customers (some of them pictured above), and generate sales of over €1m.
François Machacek, EasyVirt business developer and green IT ambassador, says up to 80% of virtual machine deployments, for instance, are “oversized”, and that 5 to 10% of VMs are “useless”. Speaking at last week’s IT Press Tour in Valletta, Malta, Machacek explained how his firm’s technology had stripped out both resource and energy waste.
Among various case studies, French insurance firm Groupama was able to switch off two VMware ESX systems at a regional operation, thanks to EasyVirt software, saving it €15,000 a year on ESX costs alone. And at television firm TV5 Monde, 15 out of 300 VMware VMs were removed using the software.
In response to a big demand, EasyVirt is already developing the measurement of carbon use from GPU AI workloads. And next year, it won’t just be measuring carbon either, as it plans to enhance its offering to measure water use, and minerals and metals use too. In addition, it plans to include the automatic carbon weight of applications used at a company, and a new regulations dashboard as well.
Existing EasyVirt partners include Dell, Capgemini and CGI, along with a number of international managed service providers, including Sigma. It now plans to ramp up this channel to drive sales further, as companies look to comply with ever widening environmental legislation.
As for software pricing, users can either purchase products with a yearly maintenance deal, or pay for a yearly subscription. Also, there is volume-indexed pricing, or a monthly subscription targeted at service providers.
Machacek said: “The further development of a partner network is key for us to truly scale up.”
