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Found this presentation from Sept 22, 2008 by Oracle Chairman of the Board Jeff Henley and CIO Mark Sunday. The presentation has 66 slides, and here a few I found interesting.
I was able to drive by Oracle’s Green Data Center project yesterday which is on hold, but here are slides from the above presentation.
Reuters and Greenbiz have an article on a Green Data Center effort.
Cisco, EMC Team with MIT to Launch $100M Green Data Center
Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:05am EDT
By GreenerComputing Staff - GreenerComputing Staff
The city of Holyoke, with a ready source of cheap, relatively clean hydroelectic power, will host a new, energy efficient data center that will bring innovation and jobs to the city.
The data center will be managed and funded by the four main partners in the facility: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cisco Systems, the University of Massachusetts and EMC.
This data center is adopting a research approach to innovate.
While the project is just at the launch of a 120-day planning phase, there are big hopes for the facility. "The potential for breakthrough technologies and research is enormous, and both the center and collaboration will undoubtedly serve to lift up the City of Holyoke and regional economies throughout Western Massachusetts," governor Deval Patrick said.
I interviewed EDS’s Ed Kettler, EDS Fellow and green IT strategist, and have plenty of notes on our conversation, but not enough time right now to write about the interview.
So, for now here are pictures of EDS’s new Green Data Centers in Tulsa, OK and Wynyard, UK.
EDS reports a PUE of 1.5 – 1.7 for Tulsa, and 1.16 for Wynyard.
Some of the technology is in the cooling system and EDS has the following paper on Air Stream Containment.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Wynyard, UK
Tulsa Cooling system
More Cooling system in Tulsa
Wynyard HV switch
Server room in Tulsa
Server room in Tulsa
Notice how IBM, Dell, Rackable, and Dell’s high efficiency cloud infrastructure servers are not blade enclosures? Maybe it’s because HP’s data center design group who creates solutions like this
are figuring out how inefficient blades are for Cloud Computing. Quoting HP’s press release.
With the HP ProLiant SL portfolio, customers can cut acquisition costs by 10 percent and power draw by 28 percent, while doubling their compute density.(2)
“Customers with scale-out business models need solutions that make every dollar, watt and square foot in the data center count,” said Christine Reischl, senior vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP. “The HP ProLiant SL offers pioneering customers like these the most significant design innovation since the blade form factor, allowing them to achieve an economy of scale never before possible.”
And, HP includes an IDC quote.
“Businesses built on extreme scale-out environments, such as cloud, Web 2.0 and HPC, operate at maximum transaction volume and low margins,” said Michelle Bailey, research vice president, IDC. “These customers have very distinct and unique data center requirements, specifically around energy efficiency, cost and time to market. The introduction of technology solutions such as the ExSO portfolio from HP are specifically addressing customer requirements for optimizing capitol expenditures while lowering ongoing operating costs. As a result, these solutions are helping to redefine data center economics.”
The problem with blades is high density computing created hot spots with problems airflows. But, this behavior to use blades was driven by chargeback models that used rackspace occupied. Which artificially can bring down IT costs when in reality it increases costs. Just read the above quotes again, on how these latest servers are the most efficient.
Note in this picture how the removal of a Proliant SL is similiar to a what a blade removal picture would be.
One great thing about Sun, HP, Dell, and IBM all getting into the data center design business is these companies are learning what the impact is of their hardware.
Wow think about this. For the first time many Server OEMs are building data centers to host their hardware, and they need to build hardware that works best in their data centers. Whoever can create the most efficient systems has a competitive advantage.
This is what Google does.
There is a new competition in data centers, and has a higher probability of a green data center.
Hey this will make a great white paper/presentation.
Allstate has a Youtube page with its latest green data center video.
Official site of Allstate Insurance Company, Northbrook, IL
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The building is Gold or Silver LEED certified and on page 37 of this green grid PDF presentation by Brandi Landreth you can see how the points add up for LEED certification.
Note energy is 11%. water is 9%. And Indoor Environmental Quality for the people not the equipment is 38%.
Keep in mind LEED stands for
LEED-certified buildings:
- Lower operating costs and increased asset value.
- Reduce waste sent to landfills.
- Conserve energy and water.
- Healthier and safer for occupants.
- Reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
- Qualify for tax rebates, zoning allowances and other incentives in hundreds of cities.
- Demonstrate an owner's commitment to environmental stewardship and social responsibility.
