Create green and energy-efficient cloud computing data center

At present, data center development is in a dilemma, on the one hand, it faces the pressure of energy saving and emission reduction, on the other hand, it faces the pressure of cost control. How to reduce the energy consumption in the data center, without generating new infrastructure investment is the key to improve the existing energy consumption problem, in the process of building green data center, how to achieve the balance between energy consumption and cost?

IDC's statistics show that in the Asia-Pacific region, data Center server power consumption is increasing by 23% a year, compared with the world average growth rate of 16% per year, the growth rate of power consumption in the Asia-Pacific Data Center is much faster than the world average. "The energy demand for IT equipment has increased more than five times times over the past five years," Gartner's research shows. "At present, the domestic traditional data center in the physical environment is often the following problems: The overall layout is unreasonable; The refrigeration system can not be allocated according to the actual equipment needs; the overall energy waste is high and there is a problem of local overheating; the design and layout of the air conditioner in the room is unreasonable; the power cable cloth is very delicate, and there are significant safety problems. , because there is no security power, the equipment of the machine room can not be guaranteed. Because the traditional data center is generally according to the original communication Room specification planning and construction, there is widespread heat dissipation design extensive, heat dissipation ability and effect uneven, high energy consumption problems, the overall data center Pue generally in more than 2.0.

IDC Research found that data center managers are most concerned about the two issues are data center energy consumption problems and it resource optimization and management issues, and these two issues interact. The energy problem is also the biggest cost of data centers. The traditional data center's energy consumption, high cost, low efficiency, low availability, low continuity has caused more and more criticism.

In addition to investment in existing facilities, in the long run, infrastructure energy conservation is also a huge expense. In the United States, 3 years of pure energy cost consumption has been equated with the cost of equipment acquisition. In Europe, 3 years of pure energy costs have been twice times more than the cost of equipment acquisition. In the future, as the power and cooling problems will be more prominent, energy and data center space will become more and more scarce and expensive, under the heavy obstacles, large-scale cloud computing data center in the pursuit of TCO at the same time beyond the "green energy-saving" this hurdle, become a problem that managers need to solve.

A Gartner survey of CIOs found that 70% of respondents said electricity and refrigeration were the biggest problems facing their data centers. The proportion of energy spending in the IT budget has surged from 8% to 48% per cent. Many companies are suffering from a lot of energy consumption, many companies have been overwhelmed. Therefore, energy consumption reduction is not only the specific requirements of green data center, but also the future of the enterprise to reduce it maintenance costs of the important premise.

For businesses, the cost of purchasing infrastructure is only part of total cost of ownership (TCO), not all. It is not advisable to simply pursue low investment in purchasing and to give up the cost control of later facilities maintenance. The enterprise needs is the comprehensive purchase investment and the later maintenance cost, causes its overall to achieve the optimization. Cloud computing is also a new opportunity to create a green data center, the cloud computing model is the past isolation, lack of organic integration of the data center resources to integrate, to meet a wide range of business needs at the same time to achieve higher data center utilization. As the Cloud Computing Data Center (CDC) has been evolving toward an oversized trend, building a green CDC has become a widespread consensus. and building the green CDC itself is an effective way to achieve cost savings.

The green Sea of clouds SmartCloud

Tide Clouds Container data center SmartCloud internal components can be configured on demand according to the type of application, which can be used as the IT, refrigeration, power supply module of the data center, and can be used as a complete data center. The tide is dedicated to the sea of Clouds container data center developed high-density rack integrated server smartrack,smartrack is a rack integrated high-density server, centralized power supply, centralized cooling, centralized management, improve the overall energy link utilization efficiency, on the one hand, the server node has no power inside, Centralized power supply, power conversion efficiency from the current less than 80% to increase to more than 93%, on the other hand, the server node internal fan, the use of centralized fan wall heat dissipation, so that the heat dissipation from 15% to 37%, reduced to less than 12%. SmartCloud Wave Cloud Container Data Center Pue value is only 1.22, under the same computational power, energy consumption to save 50%.

Furthermore, Smartrack omission the space occupancy of auxiliary parts such as power supplies and fans within the server and can deploy more server nodes, with deployment densities up to 2-3 times higher than traditional ones. Smartrack can be used as a cloud Container Data center Computing module, but also fully compatible with the current data center deployment environment, the traditional data center can be deployed to solve the management, energy consumption, density and other practical problems, is the existing IDC to the CDC transformation of the feasible way.

In addition, the wave of clouds of the modular construction deployment to improve the construction deployment speed, reduce the upfront investment, the latter intelligent management greatly simplifies the operation of the cost and difficulty, from the construction management of the entire life cycle of total compression costs, and improve business security flexibility. Taking the building area as the 10000㎡ large data Center For example, using the Wave Cloud Container data center, the construction cycle is shortened only by the original 1/4-1/5, the basic construction investment is saved 45%, the density is increased twice times, and the management cost is reduced by 97%.

▲ Traditional data center and cloud Container Data center technology and energy consumption comparison

Summary

Building the CDC is a vital project in accelerating the evolution of cloud computing. Both operators and suppliers will increase the construction of the data center. But in the pursuit of its size, while paying attention to energy consumption and cost control is also an important guarantee for CDC development, to create a green CDC has become a broad consensus.