{"id":26183,"date":"2021-09-08T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/new-ibm-power-e1080-server-promises-dramatic-increases-in-energy-efficiency-power.html"},"modified":"2021-09-08T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:10:23","slug":"new-ibm-power-e1080-server-promises-dramatic-increases-in-energy-efficiency-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/new-ibm-power-e1080-server-promises-dramatic-increases-in-energy-efficiency-power.html","title":{"rendered":"New IBM Power E1080 server promises dramatic increases in energy efficiency, power"},"content":{"rendered":"

We know that large data centers running powerful servers use vast amounts of electricity. Anything that can reduce consumption would be a welcome change, especially in a time of climate upheaval<\/a>. That\u2019s where the new IBM Power E1080 server<\/a>, which is powered by the latest Power10 processors, comes into play.<\/p>\n

IBM claims it can consolidate the work of 126 competitive servers down to just two E1080s, saving 80% in energy costs, by the company\u2019s estimation. What\u2019s more, the company says, \u201cThe new server has set a new world record in a SAP benchmark that measures performance for key SAP applications, needing only half the resources used by x86 competitive servers to beat them by 40%.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrick Moorhead, founder and principal analyst at Moor Insight Strategy, who closely follows the chip industry, says that the company\u2019s bold claims about what these systems can achieve make sense from a hardware design perspective. \u201cThe company\u2019s claims on SAP, Oracle and OpenShift workloads pass initial muster with me as it simply requires less sockets and physical processors to achieve the same performance. These figures were compared to Intel\u2019s Cascade Lake<\/a> that will be replaced with Sapphire Rapids<\/a> (in the future),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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IBM breaks latest revenue losing streak as cloud revenue shows modest growth<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Steve Sibley, vice president and business line executive in the Power Systems Group at IBM, says that the new server (and the Power10 chip running it) have been designed for customers looking for a combination of speed, power, efficiency and security. \u201cIf you look at what we deliver here with scale and performance, it gives customers even more agility to respond quickly to scale to their highest demands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

To give customers options, they can buy E1080 servers outright and install them in a company data center. They can buy server access as a service from the IBM cloud (and possibly competitor clouds) or they can rent the servers and install them in their data centers and pay by the minute to help mitigate the cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur systems are a little bit more expensive on what I call a base cost of acquisition standpoint, but we allow customers to actually purchase [E1080 servers] on an as-a-service basis with a by-the-minute level of granularity of what they\u2019re paying for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, this server, which is the first to be released based on the Power10 chip, is designed to run Red Hat software under the hood, giving the company another outlet for its 2018 $34 billion acquisition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBringing Red Hat\u2019s platform to this platform is a key way to modernize applications, both from just a RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) operating system environment, as well as OpenShift (the company\u2019s container platform). The other place that has been key with our Red Hat acquisition and our capitalizing on it is that we\u2019re leveraging their Ansible projects and products to drive management and automation on our platform, as well,\u201d Sibley explained.<\/p>\n

Since Arvind Krishna took over as CEO at IBM<\/a> in April 2020, he has been trying to shift the focus of the company to hybrid computing<\/a>, where some computing exists in the cloud and some on prem, which is the state many companies will find themselves in for many years to come. IBM hopes to leverage Red Hat as a management plane for a hybrid environment, while offering a variety of hardware and software tools and services.<\/p>\n

While Red Hat continues to operate as a standalone entity<\/a> inside IBM, and wants to remain a neutral company for customers, Big Blue is still trying to find ways to take advantage of its offerings whenever possible and using it to run its own systems, and the E1080 provides a key avenue for doing that.<\/p>\n

The company says that it is taking orders for the new servers starting immediately and expects to begin shipping systems at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

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