Data Center Computing

The ever-increasing needs for more compute power in order to remain competitive in the market place have placed a strain on data center facilities—especially power and cooling capacity. IT organizations demand more compute per watt of energy used and rising costs of both utilities and real estate have put a squeeze on it budgets. Newer server hardware sporting multiple CPU cores, blade servers for increased density and efficiency, I/O bus enhancements, improvements in operating systems including 64-bit computing, performance improvements, and power management improvements put pressure on organizations to get the greatest amount of compute out of the money they spend. Burton group provides guidance on strategies in compute density, server hardware, operating systems, and power and cooling to enable organizations to improve efficiency at minimal cost and extract the most amount of value per watt of energy consumed. Future proofing data center architectures to harness technical advances in hardware, operating systems and facilities infrastructure is addressed.

• Industry standard (x86/64) server hardware technology
• x86/64 Operating Systems
• Server energy efficiency
• Data Center Power and Cooling
• Blade Servers
• Multi-core CPUs

This topic relates to the Data Center coverage area - New and future data center technologies for server and storage virtualization, compute densities, server and storage management improvements, and data center physical and logical architectures.

Back to Research Home