Some Cfengine Users
More efficient management of servers can save you both time and energy in your
datacenter. Lightweight automation not only reduces costs but opens the doorway to a
more agile system, ready to adapt to this week's business requirements. In
today's
virtualized environments every cycle of CPU capacity is a valuable commodity
that should be used to maximum effect.
Power is not only measured in Watts
The power to adapt need not come at the expense of a growing electricity bill -- Cfengine is designed to be efficient. Computers, on the other hand, are not efficient devices. About 70%-80% of a computer's power requirements come from just switching it on. The rest depends on its CPU and disk utilization. Add to that the cost of cooling your datacentre and you quickly see that, to minimize spiralling energy costs, you need to get the most out of every machine you own.
Cfengine software is small and lightweight, using
less than a third of the resources of our closest competitors, so you are not
wasting your capacity on overhead. Moreover, policies may be scheduled at
intervals so that you don't verify all promises all of the time -- trust in the
software saves energy too. That means better
system performance for IT services, more resources per machine for virtualization, and
more computing for lower power consumption. Many monitoring and management systems
are so heavy-weight that they account for an astonishing fraction of system utilization.
Cfengine's enterprise solutions, starting with Cfengine Nova, allow you to follow the history and performance of all systems as part of an integrated Knowledge Management solution. So not only will you run an efficient ship, you will have accurate information about its performance at all time.
Knowledge-enhanced automation drives business agility for a faster changing world, lending you the power to adapt limited resources to new challenges within a matter of minutes rather than months.
