The use of energy is one of the defining topics of our age. The personal expense of powering your server for the daily operation of your business can be quite significant. Also, the toll that all of this cumulative power takes on the power grid is quite sizable in some cities. Aside from the expense, there is also the potential for devastation in lost information, should something go terribly wrong.

Just such a focus has been endeavoured in the EU. A great model for the success of streamlining the efficiency of data servers is the German city of Bad Soden am Taunus. Bad Soden am Taunus is a small city of approximately 21.500 residents.

Some information needs are larger than others. The administration of large corporations and cities require immense amounts of information. The storage of that information can get costly and taxes our environment in energy usage.

consolidating and virtualizing the server’s infrastructure modernizing the city’s network the use of a virtual desktop infrastructure for the city employees consolidating the printer environment

There are products and techniques in use right now that are achieving great success in doing just that. Let’s have a look at one of them.

Memory options: Memory type- DDR-2 675 MHz (PC3200) registered DIMMs with ECC (128 bit plus ECC databus) Memory Capacity- 16 DDR2 DIMM slots (8 per processor)64GB maximum with 2 CPUS and 4GB DIMMs, standard 32GB

Hard Disk: Hard Disk Supported- 48 hot swappable, 3.5″ SATA II Disk RAID configurations- SW RAID enabled by RAID-Z in Solaris ZFS for RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and RAID z2 for RAID 6

Many more case studies can be viewed at efficient-servers.eu/ for more information and opportunities to support this project as we continue to develop technology toward a more energy efficient IT future.

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