Comments on: Pizza Boxes Are Power Hogs

By: With a New Server, Cisco Pushes “Comm-puting” Strategy

With a New Server, Cisco Pushes “Comm-puting” Strategy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:36:27 +0000

[...] Cisco’s move is well timed. The demand for servers inside the data centers is on an upswing — about 50 percent of the 8 million servers sold every year end up in data centers, according to a BusinessWeek report. Similarl,y more devices inside the data center means more power consumption, which shoots up the operational costs of the data centers. According to Intel, nearly 25 percent of the costs associated with running big data centers can be traced back to power consumption. As we reported earlier, much of the power is drawn by pizza box style servers. [...]

By: Blade Watch » What will the demand be for 1u servers in 2008?

Blade Watch » What will the demand be for 1u servers in 2008? — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:06:23 +0000

[...] http://gigaom.com/2007/12/18/pizza-boxes-are-power-hogs As everyone knows, you get what you pay for. That maxim certainly holds true for Internet infrastructure, especially when it comes to servers. Over the past few years there has been an explosion of low-cost appliance servers – also known as pizza box servers — and they now account for a formidable portion of the Internet infrastructure. And though cheap in price, they are turning out to be power hogs. [...]

By: michaelportent

michaelportent — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:22:40 +0000

The government should implement a tax break for companies that convert from pizza box servers to more power-efficient models.

You listening in, congress? Get to work on that! =P

By: Erich

Erich — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:56:09 +0000

Statistics like 20% utilization are kind of misleading, as that's an average over an entire day (right?). That 20% gives you 80% headroom for spikes of usage, which might be during the evenings or even just 9-5, whatever it is. If instead of 5 pizza boxes at 20%, you set up 1 pizza box with 5x the apps/OSes loaded so that it was pegged at 100% used, well gee, you're screwed as soon as any more demand comes in.

It certainly is a good idea to think about how to save power, but not at the expense of not being able to actually serve up customer load.

By: neoTactics » GigaOm’s Pizza Boxes Need New Toppings

neoTactics » GigaOm’s Pizza Boxes Need New Toppings — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:49:40 +0000

[...] beloved GigaOm ponders on pizza box servers and their possible replacement by Big IronTM in a new [...]

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Top Posts « WordPress.com — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:02:56 +0000

[...] Pizza Boxes Are Power Hogs As everyone knows, you get what you pay for. That maxim certainly holds true for Internet infrastructure, especially […] [...]

By: Pete Steege

Pete Steege — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:17:18 +0000

See my post on how the industry is responding to this need. Maybe we should call them Storvers instead of Servers.

http://storageeffect.com/2007/12/19/a-third-way-for-internet-infrastructure/

By: A third way for internet infrastructure « Storage Effect

A third way for internet infrastructure « Storage Effect — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:13:11 +0000

[...] 19, 2007 · No Comments Om Malik poses a question: Will the inefficiency of “pizza box” servers push the internet [...]

By: A.T.

A.T. — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:54:18 +0000

ahem... big iron? one point of failure? well, certainly, there is always chance to forgot lessons of past ;)

By: Pete Steege

Pete Steege — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:46:58 +0000

Not Big Iron or pizza boxes. The future is a new class of servers focused on this market. Optimized for scale, but still cheap, with tons of storage.

Verrari and Rackable are leading the way, but the solutions are just beginning to evolve.