How to reduce energy consumption in large data center

The information brought by large data storms are transforming human life, work and thinking, opening up a major transformation of the times. With the wide application of large data in various fields, the demand of data center is increasing uniformly, and whether the data center is green has become the primary factor to be taken into account in the data center layout of major data centers all over the world.

According to authoritative statistics, power consumption in the data center has accounted for 8% of global energy and electricity consumption, which is expected to double the growth of electricity consumption. The huge demand for power in data center has become the bottleneck restricting the development of large data technology, which means that reducing energy consumption is the most serious challenge for the sustainable development of large data technology.

It is understood that in China, the annual 920,000 tons of standard coal resource consumption is sufficient to meet the China Unicom operator Data Center operation needs. According to authority forecasts, the global Data data center will consume 1.963 Trillion-kilowatt of its power resources by 2020, more than the total power consumed by France, Germany, Canada and Brazil today.

In the constant pursuit of faster computing speed, how to reduce energy consumption has become the IT industry has to face the problem. Internationally renowned internet companies have built data centers in the use and development of cloud computing, such as Facebook's Oregon State facility, which will operate on coal-fueled power plants, which are building data-storage systems in North Carolina, which relies heavily on coal-fired energy. Recently, Facebook also announced that its upcoming use of the Iowa Tweener Data Center will be full of green energy provided by China-US energy companies.

After investigation, 62% of the enterprises believe that their data centers face problems such as heat dissipation, power supply and cost, and 23% per cent of companies believe that their data centers are low in power and heat, limiting the expansion of IT infrastructure or making full use of high-density computing equipment; 19% of respondents believe that their data centers are too expensive to consume , the cost is too high, can not afford; another 17% of enterprises believe that the computer room temperature is too high, affecting the stable operation of computing equipment, resulting in a series of problems. Therefore, the most serious problem of data center facilities in most enterprises is that the increase of operation density leads to the rapid increase of power density, and the total cost of ownership of data center multiplies with the increase of server.

As we all know, servers, storage, network equipment ... The "buzzing" "big guy" in the data center is the most intuitive power-hungry facility. Now, in the green energy-saving wave, the major manufacturers have also been through various ways to improve product technology, reduce product energy consumption. At present, the Wave group, Tsinghua Tongfang and other domestic manufacturers have a Low-power server products launched. and HP and other international manufacturers also have a variety of Low-power server products sold in China. It is understood that cloud-created storage together with CETC32 Intel developed the world's first ultra-low power, high-density cloud storage products A8000 Ultra-low Power cloud storage system using the world's first 64-bit ultra-low power storage server, centralized power supply, centralized cooling, the system to achieve ultra-high density and ultra-low power optimization. The product can carry total storage capacity up to 1824TB, single storage node peak power consumption of less than 0.15KW, than traditional cloud storage products energy saving 3 times times. And the cloud to create storage independent research and development of Cstor cloud storage System has been successfully used in security, radio and television, transportation, telecommunications, government affairs and many other fields, performance excellence, performance, by the user's consistent high praise.

In the green storage has become an inevitable trend today, green energy conservation has been a major development direction of data centers, experts predict that by 2016, the Global Green data Center market will grow by three times times, to 45.5 billion U.S. dollars. How to build more efficient and greener data centers is both a new challenge and a business opportunity, and domestic companies should continue to explore upgrades and energy management software for hardware storage devices to conquer the data center Barroth.