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Smartbunker’s IBM BladeCenter Servers
“To deliver guaranteed high performance with reduced environmental impact to our customers, Smartbunker’s choice of servers was critical. Smartbunker selected IBM as our technology partner due to their record in the development of some of the world’s most advanced IT systems. IBM’s BladeCenter™ servers deliver the same application performance as higher wattage traditional servers but consume up to 60% less power.”
IBM require no introduction. Quite simply they are leaders in the invention, development and manufacture of the most advanced IT systems in the world, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics.
Which is good enough reason in itself to select IBM as technology partners.
But there’s more to the story. As the UK’s first ever purpose-built, low energy, high performance data centre, our choice of servers was critical.
Power consumption and thermal loads are increasing every day, which calls for some radical new thinking about how we combine hardware, software and processors. Smartbunker’s IBM BladeCenter™* servers deliver the same application performance as higher wattage traditional servers but consume up to 60% less power. †
The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that it costs almost £200,000 annually to power a traditional 1000-volume
server-unit data centre.
In fact some data centre and IT managers have reported the money they spend on electricity and cooling for their IT equipment has now eclipsed the amount of money they spend on the actual IT equipment itself, which consumes the power and cooling. Even over the short term, it’s cheaper to build and equip a new data centre rather than attempt to power and cool the existing generation of servers. And as there is a causal relationship between high temperatures and efficiency, (cooler equipment lasts longer and is more reliable) IBM BladeCenter™ servers had to be the natural choice for Smartbunker – 90% energy efficient at zero additional cost to you, the end user.
Technical comparison of IBM BladeCenter servers vs in-house assembled servers. BladeCenter server advanatges.
* IBM HS21 Dual Processor / Dual disk capable with Xeon Dual Core 5148 2.33 GHz low power processor.
† Compared to currently available equivalent individual 1U servers.
