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-- MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac) -- Importance: Normal Subject: iSeries and NT To: "AS400" <year2000@us.ibm.com> From: "Dan Hayden" <dlhayde@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:03:08 -0500 I thought this was worth passing on since I love the environment and the iSeries/AS400!! ISERIES: LEAN, GREEN, NT-BUSTING MACHINE Carson A. Soule, NEWS/400 Tech Editor http://www.as400network.com/nwn/story.cfm?ID=11243 NT loves company. Where you find one NT server, you'll usually find many. They tend to reproduce like rabbits, filling server rooms and racks at an astounding pace. This runaway overpopulation may have been fine when electricity was plentiful, but with the energy crisis that hit California earlier this year, the electricity consumption of all those NT servers -- not to mention the air conditioning required to keep them running comfortably -- became an issue. By one analysis, simply turning off all the NT server farms in California would have ended the electricity crisis immediately. Last year while campaigning for the presidency in Michigan, George W. Bush told the crowd, "today, the equipment needed to power the Internet consumes 8 percent of all the electricity produced in the United States.". We faced the same problem here on the East Coast, but it was narrowly averted by the sudden collapse of the dot-coms that host so many of the NT server farms. As the economy recovers, though, they're bound to return. What does this have to do with the iSeries, you ask? The answer is simple. Whether used for Web serving or Domino, a single iSeries server can replace tens, if not hundreds, of NT servers. A quick look at the power specs for the respective servers shows that this server consolidation can result in significant reductions in power consumption. The reductions in air conditioning bills, floor space, and staffing that go hand-in-hand with consolidation on the iSeries result in even more savings. In other words, consolidating servers onto the iSeries is energy-wise and environmentally friendly. Not only does the iSeries save power, but also the useful life of the average AS/400 is longer, reducing the recycling load of all those obsolete Intel boxes. True friends of the environment know that we must defend it on many fronts. Energy, overpopulation, and recycling are important, but so are disease and pollution control. If we look at the ecology of the Internet, it's easy to see that disease in the form of viruses and worms is rampant, and the pollution of spam, denial-of-service attacks, and Trojan horses is a menace to society. Windows is a major vector in the spread of both of these perfidious environmental problems. In fact, Windows is often compared to Swiss cheese because of the holes in its security and integrity. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that most people leave their systems on 24/7, even if they're not doing any productive work. Well, friends of the environment, there's finally a foolproof solution to the Windows security problem. Our security experts have conclusively demonstrated that if you simply turn off your Windows PC or server, it's 100 percent secure. So, with a single act of ecological terrorism, you can stop your Windows machines from contributing to the problems of energy consumption, Internet disease, and pollution. A Windows machine that's turned off can't be hijacked by a Trojan horse or implement a distributed denial of service attack. And viruses can't reproduce or spread when the system is turned off. It's definitely time to act! The iSeries, of course, suffers from none of these problems. Its robust security and liberal use of advanced technology make it a true friend of the environmentally conscious computing professional. Be proud of your midrange heritage; run your AS/400 confident in the knowledge that you're protecting the environment with every processing cycle. Talk to your friends and colleagues to see if you can raise their awareness of this important issue. If we all compute together on iSeries, we can make the difference in stopping global warming and protecting the earth for future generations. I am sure that Ralph Nader would support us -- if he only knew what an iSeries was. Clearly, this is another marketing opportunity IBM has missed. Rochester should be promoting the box as a true green machine, champion of the environment, and boon to civilization. Perhaps the iNation can recruit Al Gore to champion this important issue and bring it to the public's attention. (I understand he's looking for a comeback platform on which to base his next campaign.) _______________ Regards, Dan Dan Hayden 812 465-0587 IBM iSeries400 Server Specialist 812 465-0504 (Fax) 25 NW Riverside Drive Evansville, IN 47708
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