Eleven servers designed to handle growing big data demands receive rating.
IBM has unveiled eleven new servers that meet stringent version 2.0 guidelines now in effect under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR® program.
A virtual explosion of data, estimated at 2.5 quintillion bytes a day and growing, is driving up energy costs in data centers. Qualifying criteria for the new ENERGY STAR rating — including features such as efficient power supplies, real time power usage measurement, advanced power management for lowering usage during idle periods — can help organizations dramatically lower the amount of energy required to run data centers increasingly under pressure to handle more data more efficiently.