Comments on: IBM’s New Servers for Cloud Computing http://gigaom.com/2008/04/23/ibms-new-servers-for-cloud-computing/ The Business of Technology Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:14:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: HP Weds Cloud and High-performance Computing - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/04/23/ibms-new-servers-for-cloud-computing/#comment-880523 HP Weds Cloud and High-performance Computing - GigaOM Wed, 28 May 2008 11:45:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12249#comment-880523 [...] don’t know how important it is to build out scalable computing efforts with IBM’s iDataPlex or HP’s offerings rather than an array of commodity x86 boxes, but the merging of [...] [...] don’t know how important it is to build out scalable computing efforts with IBM’s iDataPlex or HP’s offerings rather than an array of commodity x86 boxes, but the merging of [...]

]]> By: The “cloud” in the spotlight : business|bytes|genes|molecules http://gigaom.com/2008/04/23/ibms-new-servers-for-cloud-computing/#comment-872694 The “cloud” in the spotlight : business|bytes|genes|molecules Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:51:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12249#comment-872694 <p>[...] Ray Ozzie about Live Mesh Bungee Labs evolves to compete with Salesforce, Oracle, & others IBM’s new servers for cloud computing Data center [...]</p> [...] Ray Ozzie about Live Mesh Bungee Labs evolves to compete with Salesforce, Oracle, & others IBM’s new servers for cloud computing Data center [...]

]]> By: Nortel Spinoff Blade Network Technologies Aims To Virtualize Datacenter Racks | Virtualization.com http://gigaom.com/2008/04/23/ibms-new-servers-for-cloud-computing/#comment-872684 Nortel Spinoff Blade Network Technologies Aims To Virtualize Datacenter Racks | Virtualization.com Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:26:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12249#comment-872684 <p>[...] innovations in cooling and efficiency to address Web 2.0-style computing (see iDataPlex coverage on GigaOM and Ars [...]</p> [...] innovations in cooling and efficiency to address Web 2.0-style computing (see iDataPlex coverage on GigaOM and Ars [...]

]]> By: Ken O http://gigaom.com/2008/04/23/ibms-new-servers-for-cloud-computing/#comment-872666 Ken O Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:06:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12249#comment-872666 <p>This signals a desperate attempt by IBM to create "specialized" hardware for cloud computing. The amusing contradiction is that a value proposition of cloud computing is to completely commoditize hardware. What firms should be focusing on is how to use <em>existing</em> commodity hardware (mutli-vendor, at that) to create their own "cloud" environments.</p> This signals a desperate attempt by IBM to create “specialized” hardware for cloud computing. The amusing contradiction is that a value proposition of cloud computing is to completely commoditize hardware. What firms should be focusing on is how to use existing commodity hardware (mutli-vendor, at that) to create their own “cloud” environments.

]]> By: Alan Wilensky http://gigaom.com/2008/04/23/ibms-new-servers-for-cloud-computing/#comment-872642 Alan Wilensky Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:36:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12249#comment-872642 <p>Getting rid of the Power Supply per Box is one step - although blades do this, its not a strategy made in heaven for commercial data centers. Centralized DC power distribution can eliminate up to 30% of the Hysteresis losses in a large server farm. A badly designed DC distribution layout can be a major drag on power, reliability and safety.</p> <p>I've been out the bi Iron business for a few years now; does anyone out there know if the current server offerings can have centralized DC? I know that Dell, HP, Sun probably so not, even very large configurations. I know that IBM's iron system (main frames) this is a default.</p> Getting rid of the Power Supply per Box is one step - although blades do this, its not a strategy made in heaven for commercial data centers. Centralized DC power distribution can eliminate up to 30% of the Hysteresis losses in a large server farm. A badly designed DC distribution layout can be a major drag on power, reliability and safety.

I’ve been out the bi Iron business for a few years now; does anyone out there know if the current server offerings can have centralized DC? I know that Dell, HP, Sun probably so not, even very large configurations. I know that IBM’s iron system (main frames) this is a default.

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