IBM "iDataPlex" Makes Data Centers More Energy Efficient
Web 2.0 Goes Green: IBM Pioneers New Server Design for Web-Based Organizations
IBM introduced an entirely new category of server uniquely designed to address the technology needs of companies that operate massive data centers with tens of thousands of servers, like online gaming, social networks and Search and Internet companies.
The IBM "iDataPlex" system leverages IBM's blade server heritage to build a completely new design point that:
-- More than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single rack,
-- Uses 40 percent less power while increasing the amount of computing
that can be done five times(1),
-- Can be outfitted with a liquid cooling wall on the back of the system
that enables it to run at "room temperature" -- no air conditioning
required,
-- Uses all industry standard components as well as open source software
such as Linux to lower costs.
Companies that operate massive scale-out data centers spend 10 to 30 times more on energy costs per square foot than a typical office building. The energy used powers both hundreds of thousands of servers and the air conditioning needed to cool them. IBM iDataPlex is a new rack system featuring design innovations in cooling and efficiency that will help it replace the inefficient "white-box" servers commonly used by such Internet companies.
Way to go, IBM.
Full news release here
IBM introduced an entirely new category of server uniquely designed to address the technology needs of companies that operate massive data centers with tens of thousands of servers, like online gaming, social networks and Search and Internet companies.
The IBM "iDataPlex" system leverages IBM's blade server heritage to build a completely new design point that:
-- More than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single rack,
-- Uses 40 percent less power while increasing the amount of computing
that can be done five times(1),
-- Can be outfitted with a liquid cooling wall on the back of the system
that enables it to run at "room temperature" -- no air conditioning
required,
-- Uses all industry standard components as well as open source software
such as Linux to lower costs.
Companies that operate massive scale-out data centers spend 10 to 30 times more on energy costs per square foot than a typical office building. The energy used powers both hundreds of thousands of servers and the air conditioning needed to cool them. IBM iDataPlex is a new rack system featuring design innovations in cooling and efficiency that will help it replace the inefficient "white-box" servers commonly used by such Internet companies.
Way to go, IBM.
Full news release here
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