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| Fact: a standard server costing €2,000 will consume €350 worth of energy per year. If this situation is not addressed, data centre energy costs could easily exceed hardware costs. And power costs are one of most significant costs to any organization today. It is a stark warning to the industry that the majority of data centres will be unable to cope with future power consumption rates and the challenges of temperature regulation to maintain performance stability. |
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is taking the lead on driving best practice in the energy savings of data centres through a three pronged strategy: |
- Reduce consumption of power by integrating efficient components and using power saving functions
- Extend the capabilities of the data centre by optimizing cooling design and through consolidation
- Use automation and virtualization tools to maximise resources
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers is working with its partners to devise programmes to mitigate power use. With technology such as the Intel® Core™ micro architecture and the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor, processor power can be substantially reduced and performance per watt optimised. In addition, demand-based switching can be employed at the CPU level to reduce system power consumption. These help reduce power consumption for a cost-effective, clean data centre.
Thermal control is another critical aspect of data centre power management. The fact is hot components fail more quickly than others. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has addressed this issue through its PRIMERGY RX300 S3 server, a radical cool-safe™ design which cuts temperatures by ten percent; doubling lifetime and stabilizing performance. The PRIMERGY RX300 S3 features separate air tunnels, automatically controlled fans, energy efficient Intel® Xeon® processors and integrated blade server cooling, creating a highly efficient infrastructure.
Using properly configured and efficiently-designed data centre technology, businesses can save thousands of kilowatts of energy per year. For example, a quad core processor system could reduce power consumption by 41,200 kWh per year, resulting in a savings of €5,000 per year and a reduction in CO2 of 24.7 tonnes annually.
Turning off servers is also an option. Automation tools such as our ServerView Power Control monitors the status of servers and displays just which servers are in use and which not. When necessary, ServerView Power Control can turn on, or turn off, a server or group of servers. Through this type of automation power consumption can be radically reduced – by as much as 75%.
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Top five tips for energy savings (data center) |
- Align the data centre IT environment to be able to quickly react to changing business conditions
- Increase utilization of IT resources in the data center
- Identify the most reliable partner to design, implement, operate and maintain your infrastructure
- Deploy future-oriented solutions which will be supported for years to come
- Reduce power usage through centralization of power supply, cooling, drives and communication
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