Saving Energy in the EU
Posted by Kazu Oda on June 29th, 2009
Are you aware that the energy consumption by data servers in the EU is comparable to the energy required to operate 8 nuclear power plants? In this day and age in which we seek to reduce the human footprint on the globe, this amount of energy is mind boggling. A necessary focus of our technology and effort should be to reduce this consumption through developing methods of maximizing the efficiency of data servers in high demand networks.
The time has come for business owners and city administrators to move forward; take a proactive step into the new realities of the world we live in. The time has arrived for a viable solution to the storage space we need for our information goods. Enter Sun Software.
Some information needs are larger than others. The administration of large corporations and cities require immense amounts of information. The storage of that information can get costly and taxes our environment in energy usage.
consolidating and virtualizing the server’s infrastructure modernizing the city’s network the use of a virtual desktop infrastructure for the city employees consolidating the printer environment
Processor options: Processor- Two Quad-core AMD Opteron Processors, (Model 2356 Rev F2.3 GHz) Cache - 128K L1, 512K L2 each core and 2MB L3 shared by all four cores
Another success story is from Europe’s second largest web host, STRATO AG. With over 1 million clients being offered their own home pages, on-line shops, and server lease, the need for efficiency is obvious. Over 100 old servers were replaced with 14 Sun X4200 and 28 Sun T2000 systems.
Hard Disk: Hard Disk Supported- 48 hot swappable, 3.5″ SATA II Disk RAID configurations- SW RAID enabled by RAID-Z in Solaris ZFS for RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and RAID z2 for RAID 6
Standard/Integrated Interfaces : Network - 4 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet ports, RJ45 connector Serial - 1 TIA/EIA-232-F asynchronous RJ45 connector Network Management - 1 dedicated 10/100Base-T Ethernet port, RJ45 connector Serial - 1 TIA/EIA-232-F asynchronous RJ45 connector All these features and many more make the Sun Fire X4540 servers the absolute best choice for compact design and efficiency.
