Partner with SizingLounge.com
Software and Hardware vendors can gain an advantage with the proven SizingLounge™ platform which will build an exclusive Sizing Tool and TCO calculator specialised for individual needs.Your Individual Sizing Tool and TCO Calculator
Easy & Fast - We built SizingLounge™ with speed and ease of use in mind: So once your employees, partners and customers have chosen a software and specified their particular requirements, the sizing results appear immediately in the relevant order.
Transparent Comparison - With an exclusive SizingLounge™ Domain you can compare the cost-efficiency of system architectures and operating systems. This will result in a more efficient and transparent server selection process for your customers and employees.
Shorter Sales Cycles - Furthermore, specialized areas such as Server Virtualisation, High Availability, Grid Computing and Total Costs of Ownership considerations are incorporated in your exclusive SizingLounge™ Domain. This will shorten the sales cycle for solution architects.
Your Benefits
With your own individual SizingLounge™ Domain you benefit from:
- an exclusive Sizing Tool and TCO Calculator for your individual Software,
- extended sizing results with larger configurations,
- advanced features for Virtualisation, High Availability, Grid and Cloud Computing and
- detailed web statistics about your users
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Go Green with SizingLounge.com
We believe that energy efficiency in data centres is one of the most significant issue facing technology providers and customers today. Our SizingLounge™ engineers have combined years of server sizing experience with their innovative ServerRank™ technology to improve the energy efficiency of data centres.TCO Calculator - SizingLounge™ provides a TCO Calculator that considers High Availability, Grid Computing and Server Consolidation. You can quickly calculate the estimated additional costs for energy, labour, storage and software licenses. As a result of our TCO calculation, you can visualize the breakdown of all TCO cost categories.
Blade Servers - SizingLounge™ is also able to calculate configurations also with Blade Servers, which can reduce energy consumption by up 50 percent compared to typical rack optimised servers. You can compare initial costs of Blade Servers with those of traditional servers, and calculate energy and cost savings when using Blade environments.
Virtualisation - SizingLounge.com allows you to calculate server virtualisation and consolidated systems in order to increase system utilisation. This can significantly reduce energy consumption of your data centre.
Green IT initiatives from other resources
The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to promoting energy efficiency for data centres.
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of consumers, businesses and conservation organizations dedicated to promoting smart technologies that can improve the power efficiency and reduce the energy consumption of computers.
EPA is working with all interested parties in order to identify ways in which energy efficiency can be measured, documented, and implemented into data centres and the equipment that they house, especially servers.
Efficient Servers is a project conducted within the EU-program Intelligent Energy Europe. It aims at demonstrating the high potential for energy savings and cost reductions for servers in practise and at supporting the market development for energy efficient servers.
SPECpower_ssj2008 is a benchmark designed to improve efficiency by comparing performance with power across different servers.
Sizing Tool Promotes the Use of Energy Efficient Servers
Freiburg/Birmingham, April 14th, 2008 -- SizingLounge Ltd. has released a new version of its online sizing tool for servers. The new version now includes energy efficiency criteria variables for TCO calculations and can now also calculate IT energy consumption. Furthermore, the criteria allows users to define the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) factor for data centres. The PUE has been researched and defined by The Green Grid™ in 2007. Sizinglounge.com has expanded to include innovative options for optimising energy efficiency in data centres. These include a unique server virtualisation feature as well as comparative data for Blade servers. IT experts can confidently use SizingLounge.com as a vendor-independent up-to-date procurement tool that promotes efficient servers.
SizingLounge.com is easy to use: Once the user has chosen a software, the number of users and then clicked the size button, the results for Dell, HP, IBM and Sun servers appear ordered by total costs. With these results, SizingLounge.com then allows to compare the cost-efficiency of different system architectures and operating systems such as UNIX, Linux or Microsoft Windows. SizingLounge.com users can compare the total costs of a Central System with a High Availability Configuration or a Grid Environment. The Sizinglounge.com software portfolio includes a wide range of Databases, Application Servers and Enterprise Applications, such as Apache Web Server, Oracle Database, Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and SAP Business Suite.
SizingLounge Ltd. launched its web portal in 2006 to enable organisations to independently size, compare and select Green IT and efficient servers according to their specific business requirements. Since its inception more than 40,000 users from over 160 countries have used SizingLounge to size and select energy efficient servers for their data centres.
NOTE: All trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
SizingLounge.com is easy to use: Once the user has chosen a software, the number of users and then clicked the size button, the results for Dell, HP, IBM and Sun servers appear ordered by total costs. With these results, SizingLounge.com then allows to compare the cost-efficiency of different system architectures and operating systems such as UNIX, Linux or Microsoft Windows. SizingLounge.com users can compare the total costs of a Central System with a High Availability Configuration or a Grid Environment. The Sizinglounge.com software portfolio includes a wide range of Databases, Application Servers and Enterprise Applications, such as Apache Web Server, Oracle Database, Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and SAP Business Suite.
SizingLounge Ltd. launched its web portal in 2006 to enable organisations to independently size, compare and select Green IT and efficient servers according to their specific business requirements. Since its inception more than 40,000 users from over 160 countries have used SizingLounge to size and select energy efficient servers for their data centres.
NOTE: All trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
Server Sizing for Oracle and SAP - easy and independent
Freiburg/Birmingham, July 2nd, 2007 -- SizingLounge Ltd. successfully launched a web portal (sizinglounge.com) six months ago to enable companies and individuals to independently size, compare and select their IT infrastructure and servers according to their specific business requirements. Since its inception, more than 2,000 users from over 100 countries have experienced the benefits of SizingLounge - those being its independence and ease of use. Among these customers are small-to-medium businesses, global enterprises and system integrators. The total retail value of server sizings done using sizinglounge.com during this time exceeded $1.8 billion.
The clean and logical design of www.sizinglounge.com makes it clear how to proceed. Once you have chosen your software, the number of users and then clicked the size button, the sizing results for Dell, HP, IBM and Sun servers appear - ordered by relevance. With these results, sizinglounge.com then allows you to compare the cost-efficiency of different system architectures and operating systems. You can compare the total server costs of a central system with a grid environment or the server costs depending on the operating system: UNIX, Linux or Microsoft Windows.
The software portfolio contains the full range of databases, application servers and applications, such as Apache Web Server, Oracle Database, Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and SAP Business Suite.
NOTE: All trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
The clean and logical design of www.sizinglounge.com makes it clear how to proceed. Once you have chosen your software, the number of users and then clicked the size button, the sizing results for Dell, HP, IBM and Sun servers appear - ordered by relevance. With these results, sizinglounge.com then allows you to compare the cost-efficiency of different system architectures and operating systems. You can compare the total server costs of a central system with a grid environment or the server costs depending on the operating system: UNIX, Linux or Microsoft Windows.
The software portfolio contains the full range of databases, application servers and applications, such as Apache Web Server, Oracle Database, Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and SAP Business Suite.
NOTE: All trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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