By John Pickett

We hear from data center managers about their growing concerns about energy in the data center.  According to US Environmental Protection Agency, data center energy consumption has doubled from 2000 to 2006, and expected to double again by 2010.   

Some may think the only option for increasing compute capacity is to build another data center to support the growing power needs of their servers … or is it the only option?

Since the IBM z10 mainframe and HP Integrity Superdome are both large centralized servers and can run a large number of applications, you may be interested to know the HP Integrity Superdome requires 42% less energy than the IBM z10 mainframe, with both servers maximally configured.

Putting the energy savings in to perspective, the 8 kwatts savings for using the HP Superdome instead of the z10 mainframe, is enough to light 80 homes for 1 year.