By Gemma Simpson, 25 May 2007 16:24
IBM has unveiled a data centre which it claims uses up to 15 per cent less power than a traditional data centre.
The modular data centre can be designed in eight to 12 weeks with 210 blade servers sitting in each rack.
John Moseley, IBM's UK site and facilities business manager, said the steel infrastructure of the data centre comes in "flat pack boxes" and can be put up anywhere.
Pictured is IBM's demo data centre, housed in its Southbank offices in London. The glass panelling allows potential buyers to get a full view of the set-up.
Photo credit: Gemma Simpson
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1. Paul Shrimpton
Is anyone else reminded of the corridor to the turbolift in Star Trek?
2. anonymous
How does the 210 in a rack number come about? The racks in the photos seem to show 5 BladeCenter chassis, with 14 per chassis, that only equals 70 blades, potentially that's 140 physical processors or 560 processor cores,. But i still don't see how you get to 210. Unless they're only populating 1 in 3 racks (quite possible given the blanking plates visible) and counting processor cores!