{"id":678471,"date":"2023-04-05T14:45:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=678471"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:45:15","slug":"moores-law-turns-to-highlighting-power-savings-in-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/678471\/moores-law-turns-to-highlighting-power-savings-in-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore\u2019s Law turns to highlighting power savings in data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Craig Parker, Head of Hybrid Cloud Europe at Fujitsu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the past year, the focus on power consumption and running costs in data center infrastructure has reached unprecedented levels.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cocre8.africa\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=April+2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click for more information about CoCre8 Technology Solutions.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Power efficiency has become a crucial factor that most customers prioritize when selecting new systems.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing most customers ask me about today is the power efficiency of our latest systems.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the answer to the power efficiency challenge is linked to Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n<p>This is the prediction made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors on a microchip would double every two years while the cost per transistor would halve.<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s Law has been remarkably accurate for over five decades and has shown clear benefits in terms of energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Moore\u2019s Law is also showing clear benefits in terms of energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>By way of example, the performance of our newest generation PRIMEFLEX integrated systems has doubled over just 12 months, while power consumption has actually reduced.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Power efficiency has long been a focus for Fujitsu<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Fujitsu has long been committed to optimizing energy consumption in data center infrastructure development.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, the company joined the Green Grid and highlighted the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) factor for data center equipment.<\/p>\n<p>By the early 2010s, the number of Operations per Watt came into focus when the main issue was the physical impossibility of increasing supplies to on-premises data centers.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud computing and the continuation of Moore\u2019s Law changed that over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>Servers and storage have become radically more power efficient.<\/p>\n<p>That brings us to today, where the latest generation of Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX integrated systems continue to drive down power consumption.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Double the performance and 12.5% savings on power and cooling costs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I was recently amazed to see incredible advances by the new-generation PRIMERGY M7 over its predecessor model, the M6, introduced just a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>With the new model, everything has increased except for the device\u2019s physical size.<\/p>\n<p>A PRIMERGY M7 still fits into a 2U chassis for rack-mounting in a data center. Inside, a quiet revolution has taken place.<\/p>\n<p>The PRIMERGY M7 is more than twice as powerful as its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>That means just one M7 replaces two M6 models \u2013 and will still use 12.5% less power <u>overall<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just a comparison on paper when systems are idling.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s based on power consumption while systems run at 70% utilization, which is a realistic everyday scenario, and calculates combined power and cooling.<\/p>\n<p>A Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX environment also creates a hyper-converged infrastructure with enormous consolidation potential.<\/p>\n<p>So, with the latest PRIMERGY M7 server generation in the PRIMEFLEX family, customers make even greater efficiency gains.<\/p>\n<p>And the consolidation of cores brings further savings.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of a 2:1 consolidation ratio from the M6 to M7, there is a 43% price advantage per core.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>A compelling reason not to artificially extend equipment lifecycles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The past few months have brought intense scrutiny on IT spending.<\/p>\n<p>Some organizations may consider delaying a replacement of their IT infrastructure beyond the standard three-year cycle to save costs during an economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>However, the advances in power efficiency alone are a compelling reason to stick to regular replacement cycles.<\/p>\n<p>As outlined above, the performance and efficiency advances in just 12 months have been such that just one machine can replace two of the previous generation.<\/p>\n<p>This spotlights that artificially extending equipment lifecycles is, simply put, a false economy.<\/p>\n<p>Upgrading also saves on the physical space needed within a data center for an organization to maintain the level of performance \u2013 and provides plenty of room to expand computing power without needing to grow the physical size of a data center.<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s more, a state-of-the-art on-premises system makes good economic sense as cloud computing providers pass on higher overheads to customers by raising prices.<\/p>\n<p>If you hadn\u2019t realized the extent to which data center infrastructure continues to involve, then now is a good time to explore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cocre8.africa\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=April+2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click for more information about CoCre8 Technology Solutions.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past year, the focus on power consumption and running costs in data center infrastructure has reached unprecedented levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":678531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[16021],"class_list":["post-678471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-cocre8-technology-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678543,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678471\/revisions\/678543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}