New Frontiers in Efficiency Optimization of American Server Data Center
US server New frontier of data center efficiency optimization
For a long time, IT equipment and software supporting data center infrastructure have been the basic tools for monitoring data centers and managing energy efficiency. Data center operators must always pay attention to financial pressure, data specification, corporate social responsibility and other reasons to improve efficiency. These tools are becoming increasingly important.
Make management smarter
In addition to the IT load of the data center, the equipment with the largest power consumption is its cooling system. Cooling IT equipment is a complex task. The company spends a lot of energy to improve efficiency. It needs to consider not only the requirements of various components of the cooling system, but also the method to comprehensively reduce the data center, and use integrated software tools to monitor all aspects of the IT load of infrastructure and surrounding environment, To provide technical support.
For a long time, software tools have helped to manage all aspects of data center operations. Different software tools have different functions.
The system management software allows employees to monitor server performance, disk utilization, and network traffic congestion, and warn, notify, and update the embedded processing plan of each device to warn of potential failures.
Unlike system management software, data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools help manage and support infrastructure such as cooling and standby power systems.
Facility management software such as Building and Energy Management System (BMS) can help monitor the level of buildings or sites, including air conditioning and power supply.
At present, energy management is becoming more and more important. These systems must cooperate more closely, because the management of these systems is very complex. Self learning systems or artificial intelligence (AI) need to pursue higher efficiency.
Load distribution
Some companies are using smart machines to optimize the distribution of IT loads themselves for optimal cooling. Load balancing system is a common feature of system management software. Its goal is to maximize IT capacity and achieve fair allocation of resources. The latest generation of software tools considers the impact of load on cooling requirements and the impact of energy on decision-making
In addition, there are other innovative ways to help reduce power consumption in the data center. It includes research on new basic element calculation of replacing silicon chip. According to the famous Moore's Law, the calculation performance of silicon chip is more powerful and will reach the physical limit. Other technologies under research such as quantum computing, superconducting cold logic and optical computing will still build servers and data centers around silicon chips before they are developed.
Of course, the effective management of these complex systems is also crucial. The integration of management software and artificial intelligence will be the key to ensuring the performance and energy efficiency of the data center.
