4S Information Technologies Corporate Technology Advisor Ökkeş Özdemir draws attention that Turkish public sector can save annual 3 billion kW electricity by only desktop virtualization.
4S Information Technologies participated into two events about virtualization on June 06 and June 19. After the event, we have evaluated desktop virtualization and data back up in virtualization subjects with 4S Information Technologies Vice General Manager Burç Ertürk and Corporate Technology Advisor Ökkeş Özdemir.
4S Information Technologies Vice General Manager Burç Ertürk said that desktop virtualization is an important segment of virtualization ecosystem and leading countries in virtualization technologies should be followed. Ertürk: “Technology leading countries virtualize their desktops. Why? You have to replace your computer every three years. Technology changes or fails. It is very hard to perform public works with 5 year-old computers. Any failure on the computer used to cause system out-of-order. In addition to that, you are modifying a structure. Sometimes you may need to update or change your software version. Let’s think that you are a public organization having various locations. System changes used to take enormous amount of time on each computer.” Ertürk continued that “Desktop virtualization was born in order to eliminate these disadvantages.“ It is a situation in which a disk on your computer is inserted into central servers. Operating system and user data is not stored in user’s computer; they are stored in central servers. You can use thin clients here and manage them easily. You can provide support quickly, you can save more and it is more effective.”
Energy saving at 1/15 rate
4S Information Technologies Corporate Technology Advisor Ökkeş Özdemir mentioned that Ministry of Development grants very significant incentives for desktop virtualization and thin clients. However, public sector does not show sufficient interest on this subject. Özdemir continues: “Turkish public sector ignores that a computer consumes 150 Watt electricity today whereas a thin client consumes 10 Watt electricity. Developed countries focus on power consumption very much. According to 2011 data in Turkey, 100 thousand computers have been sold to public sector. With a very simple mathematics, a computer runs 220 days all year round. Entire desktop computers consume 3.3 billion Watt energy annually in the public sector. However if public had used same number of thin client and desktop virtualization, energy consumption would have been 2 hundred 20 million Watt.”
Özdemir told that he uses desktop virtualization himself and he continues: “As 4S, we say that your desktop is wherever you are. Today, my desktop is virtual. I can access my desktop via my tablet, my mobile phone or my office device. It gives me spatial independency.
Public could not have discovered desktop virtualization
4S Information Technologies Corporate Technology Advisor Ökkeş Özdemir draws attention that Turkish public sector can save annual 3 billion kW electricity by only desktop virtualization.
4S Information Technologies participated into two events about virtualization on June 06 and June 19. After the event, we have evaluated desktop virtualization and data back up in virtualization subjects with 4S Information Technologies Vice General Manager Burç Ertürk and Corporate Technology Advisor Ökkeş Özdemir.
4S Information Technologies Vice General Manager Burç Ertürk said that desktop virtualization is an important segment of virtualization ecosystem and leading countries in virtualization technologies should be followed. Ertürk: “Technology leading countries virtualize their desktops. Why? You have to replace your computer every three years. Technology changes or fails. It is very hard to perform public works with 5 year-old computers. Any failure on the computer used to cause system out-of-order. In addition to that, you are modifying a structure. Sometimes you may need to update or change your software version. Let’s think that you are a public organization having various locations. System changes used to take enormous amount of time on each computer.” Ertürk continued that “Desktop virtualization was born in order to eliminate these disadvantages.“ It is a situation in which a disk on your computer is inserted into central servers. Operating system and user data is not stored in user’s computer; they are stored in central servers. You can use thin clients here and manage them easily. You can provide support quickly, you can save more and it is more effective.”
Energy saving at 1/15 rate
4S Information Technologies Corporate Technology Advisor Ökkeş Özdemir mentioned that Ministry of Development grants very significant incentives for desktop virtualization and thin clients. However, public sector does not show sufficient interest on this subject. Özdemir continues: “Turkish public sector ignores that a computer consumes 150 Watt electricity today whereas a thin client consumes 10 Watt electricity. Developed countries focus on power consumption very much. According to 2011 data in Turkey, 100 thousand computers have been sold to public sector. With a very simple mathematics, a computer runs 220 days all year round. Entire desktop computers consume 3.3 billion Watt energy annually in the public sector. However if public had used same number of thin client and desktop virtualization, energy consumption would have been 2 hundred 20 million Watt.”
Özdemir told that he uses desktop virtualization himself and he continues: “As 4S, we say that your desktop is wherever you are. Today, my desktop is virtual. I can access my desktop via my tablet, my mobile phone or my office device. It gives me spatial independency.