Cisco joins EMC to build new energy efficient data center

After Cisco announced its foray into the server sector, people finally saw its specific moves, and recently news came that Cisco will be combining MIT, Massachusetts State University and EMC to build a new energy-efficient data center in Holyoke City (Holyoke), which will be funded and managed by the above quartet, The city of Holyoke is known for its rich and cheap hydroelectric resources.

In the background of the financial crisis, the data center as the core part of enterprise it is facing more pressure, on the one hand, the enterprise keeps compressing it expenses and cost, on the other hand the business change is speeding up, which puts forward higher request to the data center.

Before the financial crisis, many businesses were expanding rapidly, expanding their IT systems, adding servers and storage devices, expanding data centers and infrastructure to meet business development needs. After the crisis, the enterprise on the one hand began to compress all it expenses and costs, on the other hand, the business changes speed up to meet market demand, which is the important support of the business IT system has put forward higher requirements, as the enterprise it core components of the data center is facing great pressure.

All parties welcomed the completion of the data center, which, in addition to being the local community development Project (Community-redevelopment) center, will also be a high-performance computing environment, It is very helpful to develop local enterprise and company development ability.

The Green data center with high efficiency and energy consumption is now becoming more and more popular.

The project was followed by public-private partnerships at IBM's Green Data Center project in the Syracuse University community. It is understood that the green data center can cut power by 50% compared to a standardized data center on an equal scale. Water and electricity has always been an attractive factor in large science and technology projects. Google's large data center project, "Project 02," settled in Oregon State Dallas is a cheap and electricity-rich hydroelectric power plant. Last year Microsoft also chose the location of its own data center project near Quincy West, Washington, for the same reason.

"The establishment of a green data center is to reduce the data center of energy consumption and management costs, improve the utilization of data center equipment, at the same time to improve the efficiency of the premise, have a better return on investment." "Therefore, it is important to have a rational and profound understanding of the energy consumption and cost content of the green data center," said Shevigang, marketing manager at APC's Greater China region. ”

The data show that the cost of powering and cooling becomes the second largest source of cost consumption in the datacenter as it budgets are compressed. At present, more and more enterprises are plagued by the huge energy consumption of data centers, the increasingly severe heat dissipation problem and the high electricity tariffs, which reduce energy consumption and simplify management, which has become the core problem of enterprise Information system infrastructure.

For the core applications of the data center-servers, according to relevant information, in the Asia-Pacific (including Japan) region, the server power consumption of the annual growth rate of 23%, higher than the world average annual growth rate of 16% levels. In storage devices, the hard disk consumes a large amount of energy consumption, Seagate Asia Technology marketing manager Zhu Qiunan that in some storage systems, hard drives consume even more than 60% of the storage energy consumption, and for large data centers with tens of thousands of hard drives, Using energy-efficient hard drives can save a few megawatts of it energy consumption.

In addition to servers and storage devices that directly host it application load, a large amount of energy is needed to service cabinet-type chassis computers, networks and power supplies, as well as cooling systems, air-conditioning and condensers. Huawei Storage Network Security Co., Ltd. Global marketing chief engineer Kang Tianlu said that the typical data center of the computer room power consumption composition, the real load consumption of about 40%, the corresponding power transmission loss and load consumption is equivalent, the other 20% is refrigeration consumption.

In fact, data centers need to involve management/operations and security controls in addition to the energy costs of server storage, networks, and other facilities. But, in reality, many data centers for each of their own facilities, on the one hand, there is no easy access to equipment details of the tools, on the other hand, a large number of data scattered in different tool software, can not be in the same view to obtain all the data center information, data correlation management can not automatically complete, a large number of It is difficult to build a unified information management platform, thus increasing the operating cost of the data center. Tishoven, manager of Avocent China Technology, said that data is difficult to share, lack of consistency management, unable to provide customized reports, can not meet the planning needs of large data centers, and naturally greatly increase the cost of the data center.

Future data centers also have a larger cost of spending from virtualization and data center high-density server consolidation, Shevigang says that if you still build, design, operate, and manage data centers in a traditional way, it will be difficult to further ensure the availability or reliability of your entire it, and that it availability and reliability are not guaranteed, Normal business operations are not guaranteed.