Blade Servers, a Step towards Green Technologies

Contribution of the Blade Servers in Green Technology Brands contribution through Blade Servers to Green Technology

Watford, United Kingdom (prHWY.com) November 13, 2010 - Scaring general public with frightening figures and statistics is one of the only tasks of Environmentalist around the world but this pressure tactics keep companies investing in new technologies bringing environment friendly machines and devices. Blade Servers are becoming popular day by day as "Green Technology" because of their low energy consumption and compact size.

Blades are collection of thin modular electronic circuits into single chassis. These thin electronics modules are complete servers in themselves and are called "Server Blades. Usually all of these

are dedicated to single purpose, e.g. a "Website Hosting Server" will use all of their blades for web hosting only, and a all of the blades of "File Server" will be used only for file hosting. Blades are also very popular among webhosting companies who offer Virtual Private Servers (VPS), as they help to offer low price and top quality hosting services with high security.

All the blades within a blade servers are designed to share common high speed bus which reduce the cables required to connect to each other and their design emphasise on the less production of heat which reduce the consumption of energy to control the temperature using air conditioning systems. The compactness of a blade server not only reduce the space requirements but it also help to improve system management. A detailed study of blade server in data centres around the world revealed that blade server based systems can reduce the consumption of cables upto 85% as compared to conventional 1U or tower servers.

Comparison of Popular Blades

There are many big names in market claiming to be the best blade server providers, but a major portion of market is captured by HP (52.4%) and IBM blade servers are second highest popular (35.1%), while Dell, Sun MicroSystems and Cisco are among the other competitors. A quick summary IBM and HP Systems is given below.

IBM BladeCenter HX5

· Fifth-generation IBM X-Architecture Technology

· Up to Two Intel Xeon 6500 or 7500 Series Processors.

· Popular for Database and Virtualisation

· Maximum 640 GB DDR3 Memory Capacity

· Partition a Four-Processor Blade to Two, Two-Processor Blades without Physical Reconfiguration

HP ProLiant BL200c

· Latest 2 and 4 Core Processors and Memory

· Designed for High Performance Computing

· Maximum 2 Processors with 6, 4 or 2 Cores

· Maximum Upto 182 GB DDR3 Memory

Most of the modern data centres are now moving towards blades server technology that's why many web hosting companies are claiming to be environment friendly.

Author is Imperial College London Illimani and CEO of nitGreen Web Solutions, a company providing website hosting, web design, e-Commerce solutions and search engine optimization services ( SEO ).

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