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LiquidIq is the Green Data Center |
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Page 1 of 3 The movement toward power and space efficient data centers is underway and driven by the combination of consolidation via virtualization and improved power efficiencies in various components. Consolidation via virtualization provides the first order of improvement because it reduces the amount of physical resources required to support data center workloads. Power efficiencies provide a second order, but significant improvement by dramatically reducing inefficiencies throughout the data center.
Although technologies such as VMware™ allow IT organizations to achieve a measure of success in consolidation using traditional commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware, they do not address the issue of power inefficient hardware. Today’s blade systems address efficiency to some degree, but they do not take a comprehensive enough approach and have not adequately addressed thermal issues.
Liquid Computing’s LiquidIQ System, the world’s leading fabric computing architecture, was recognized by Gartner as the next generation of design because it addresses the need for deep virtualization.1 In addition, Liquid Computing’s roots in telecom system design provide LiquidIQ with the most power efficient x86 blade in the market, and industry leading thermal efficiency and physical density.
Liquid Computing, from its very beginning, has advanced power management utilizing both:
• virtualization and
• power & cooling efficiency.
Liquid Computing performed a detailed analysis with a major service provider and found that the above power management strategies reduced power consumption by 80% relative to their existing COTS infrastructure.2 Find out how this was achieved in the following paragraphs.
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