The Rackonomic Data Center: It's all about Racks, Rows and Even Containers
The data center of the future will comprise replicated racks, rows and even containers with massive processing, I/O and storage capabilities.
We've coined the term Rackonomics to describe this datacenter of the future that comprises replicated racks of servers, storage and network elements, organized into rows and even containers.
Rackonomics can drastically reduce facilities and support costs and drive down total cost of ownership. It can also improve energy efficiency through high-density packaging and unique cooling designs that do not require the construction of a brand new data center facility. It is the way of the future.
Google pioneered the container data center concept with the intent to distribute Google data centers to every network peering point in self-contained shipping containers. Today, massive scale-out containers can house thousands of processors, tens of petabytes of disk storage, and hundreds of Gigabits of I/O, and can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. Google's idea is to place one of these containers anywhere Google owns access to fiber, primarily at one of the 300 major Internet peering points, in effect transforming the Internet into a massive processing and storage grid.
At BLADE, we are designing and building the top-of-rack and blade-based data center-class networking products that make the ideal, standardized networking components for the rack, row, and container-based data center. And we're partnering with companies like IBM, whose iDataPlex platform is amongst the most innovative solutions for building out the Rackonomic datacenter.
Rackonomic data centers have tremendous potential, for example, enabling Internet TV to scale to the same level as broadcast and cable TV with latency and system response as low as they can possibly be made for a networked application using Ethernet as its essential network backbone. We’re proud to be playing a leading role in an industry-wide effort to redefine how enterprises build out their datacenters.
We've coined the term Rackonomics to describe this datacenter of the future that comprises replicated racks of servers, storage and network elements, organized into rows and even containers.
Rackonomics can drastically reduce facilities and support costs and drive down total cost of ownership. It can also improve energy efficiency through high-density packaging and unique cooling designs that do not require the construction of a brand new data center facility. It is the way of the future.
Google pioneered the container data center concept with the intent to distribute Google data centers to every network peering point in self-contained shipping containers. Today, massive scale-out containers can house thousands of processors, tens of petabytes of disk storage, and hundreds of Gigabits of I/O, and can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. Google's idea is to place one of these containers anywhere Google owns access to fiber, primarily at one of the 300 major Internet peering points, in effect transforming the Internet into a massive processing and storage grid.
At BLADE, we are designing and building the top-of-rack and blade-based data center-class networking products that make the ideal, standardized networking components for the rack, row, and container-based data center. And we're partnering with companies like IBM, whose iDataPlex platform is amongst the most innovative solutions for building out the Rackonomic datacenter.
Rackonomic data centers have tremendous potential, for example, enabling Internet TV to scale to the same level as broadcast and cable TV with latency and system response as low as they can possibly be made for a networked application using Ethernet as its essential network backbone. We’re proud to be playing a leading role in an industry-wide effort to redefine how enterprises build out their datacenters.
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