I B M To Save Energy

IBM announces $1 billion plan to save energy. How are they going to do it? They plan to make corporate computing centers more energy efficient. IBM executive announced that they will reoutfit the data centers it operates and help its customers redo their own with multiple power-saving approaches. This sounds like a good thing. Data centers are humming banks of servers that process transactions, serve up Web pages and store information. Data Centers can be energy hogs due to all the electricity their computers need. One of the ways IBM expects to make data centers greener is through heavier use of "virtualization" technologies. This would let one computer handle the operations of multiple machines. They also plan to deploy more "provisioning software" that increases the time that servers switch to power-saving standby mode. Good idea, huh>