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.(1) The energy powers both hundreds of thousands of servers and the air conditioning needed to cool them. The exponential growth of such data centers will continue as streaming video, online gaming and social networks spike Internet traffic, requiring companies to build ever vaster pools of computers that devour energy resources to operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The IBM "iDataPlex" system leverages IBM's blade server heritage to build a completely new design that:
More than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single IBM rack,
Uses 40 percent less power while increasing the amount of computing that can be done 5X, (2)
Can be outfitted with a liquid cooled 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 help lower costs.
Web 2.0 Expo -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced today an entirely new category of server uniquely designed to address the technology needs of companies that use Web 2.0-style computing to operate massive data centers with tens of thousands of servers.
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.(1) The energy powers both hundreds of thousands of servers and the air conditioning needed to cool them. The exponential growth of such data centers will continue as streaming video, online gaming and social networks spike Internet traffic, requiring companies to build ever vaster pools of computers that devour energy resources to operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The IBM "iDataPlex" system leverages IBM's blade server heritage to build a completely new design that:
More than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single IBM rack,
Uses 40 percent less power while increasing the amount of computing that can be done 5X, (2)
Can be outfitted with a liquid cooled 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 help lower costs.-IBM
