Good News Coming with Data Center Efficiency
This blog entry is not meant to get into all of the details. It is meant to initiate someone's further research into this area.
It seems like there are many favorable trends that could dramatically reduce the power consumption of data centers. These data centers consume more than 1.5% of the US total electric consumption. That means it is the equivalent to five nuclear power plants. It is also one of the fast growing demands on the grid. Google became interested in renewable energy because of the energy consumed by its server farms.
What is best about these trends, is that they not only reduce power consumption, but they also boost performance and lower costs. It is the dream for all energy saving endeavors.
Here are some of the key trends. First, there is excellent virtualization software that lets multiple users share a common server. It seems that most users only use a fraction of a the capacity of a computer. Sharing these servers does not degrade performance. For obvious reasons, it saves money.
ncomputing has a solution that seems to be extremely well thought out and borrows from mainframe computing. More than a million clients have been installed. It is proven technology and seems to work exceptionally well in the classroom environment. The solution combines hardware and software to uniquely configure independent terminals.
Another virtualization company, vmware, seems to be on a path to dominance. Its software only solution for servers works well and is widely used.
A storage technology, still somewhat in its infancy, has the potential to exponentially increase efficiency when combined with the virtualization and mainframe technologies described above. This storage technology is called Enterprise Solid State Disk (SSD). It is basically like a super flash drive that could grow to 1 terabyte capacity. They are super fast and reliable. And they conserve a tremendous amount of power. As a consequence, some of the redundancy and backup storage is not needed. Here is a "greenpaper" from fusionio.com that explains the advantages thoroughly.
This is good news!
It seems like there are many favorable trends that could dramatically reduce the power consumption of data centers. These data centers consume more than 1.5% of the US total electric consumption. That means it is the equivalent to five nuclear power plants. It is also one of the fast growing demands on the grid. Google became interested in renewable energy because of the energy consumed by its server farms.
What is best about these trends, is that they not only reduce power consumption, but they also boost performance and lower costs. It is the dream for all energy saving endeavors.
Here are some of the key trends. First, there is excellent virtualization software that lets multiple users share a common server. It seems that most users only use a fraction of a the capacity of a computer. Sharing these servers does not degrade performance. For obvious reasons, it saves money.ncomputing has a solution that seems to be extremely well thought out and borrows from mainframe computing. More than a million clients have been installed. It is proven technology and seems to work exceptionally well in the classroom environment. The solution combines hardware and software to uniquely configure independent terminals.
Another virtualization company, vmware, seems to be on a path to dominance. Its software only solution for servers works well and is widely used.
A storage technology, still somewhat in its infancy, has the potential to exponentially increase efficiency when combined with the virtualization and mainframe technologies described above. This storage technology is called Enterprise Solid State Disk (SSD). It is basically like a super flash drive that could grow to 1 terabyte capacity. They are super fast and reliable. And they conserve a tremendous amount of power. As a consequence, some of the redundancy and backup storage is not needed. Here is a "greenpaper" from fusionio.com that explains the advantages thoroughly.
This is good news!
Tags: computers, efficiency, storage
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Comment by AlternativeEnergy.com on March 3, 2009 at 9:07am -
myYearbook.com Selects Rackable Systems to Leverage Day One Advantage and Power Efficiency Benefits
Rackable Equips Third-Largest Online Social Networking Site With Innovative and Eco-Logical™ High Density Servers
FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rackable Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:RACK), a leading provider of Eco-Logical™ servers and storage products for medium- to large-scale data centers, today announced that myYearbook.com, the third largest social network in the U.S., has adopted Rackable Systems’ data center server solutions to support its fast-growing web infrastructure.
Founded by two New Jersey high school students, myYearbook boasts year-over-year growth of more than 250 percent, making the acquisition of scalable and economical data center solutions a top priority. myYearbook chose Rackable’s 44U cabinets populated with Rackable C1002 half-depth servers to support its web applications, which serve a user base of over 10 million.
“Rackable’s proven ability to ship a completely integrated data center solution, pre-racked and pre-wired, gave us an immediate competitive advantage; we saved more than 150 man-hours right there,” said Jeremy Stinson, vice president of Network Operations at myYearbook. “Yet the overriding reason we chose Rackable servers to run almost 100 percent of our web tier is their extreme high density and low power consumption.”
Rackable’s Day One Advantage paradigm and patented half-depth server configurations allowed myYearbook to quickly and easily double the number of build-to-order servers it uses while simultaneously cutting overall power consumption by half. According to Stinson, myYearbook also credits Rackable’s unrivalled thermal management efficiencies with reducing server temperatures by more than 20 percent, even given that the company can now employ twice the number of servers in the same physical space.
“myYearbook understands that cost savings from denser, lower power solutions can significantly bolster their bottom line as they scale for the future,” said Tony Carrozza, senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Rackable Systems. “Web leaders like myYearbook rely on Rackable’s innovative data center designs for their superior scalability, energy-efficiency and best-in-class density.”
About Rackable Systems
Rackable Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:RACK) is a leading provider of Eco-Logical™ servers and storage for medium- to large-scale data center deployments. The company’s products, available for purchase or lease, are designed to provide benefits in the areas of density, thermal efficiency, serviceability, power distribution, data center mobility and remote management. Founded in 1999 and based in Fremont, California, Rackable Systems is a founding member of The Green Grid and serves cloud computing and services, enterprise software, federal government, digital media, financial services, oil and gas exploration and HPC customers worldwide.
To learn more about Rackable Systems, visit www.rackable.com.
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Comment by AlternativeEnergy.com on February 26, 2009 at 12:38am
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