IT@Intel Data Center Blog: Intel IT Data Center Efficiency Initiative

Like most other companies these days, Intel is facing a growing demand for computing resources. As a result, our computing costs are going up along with that demand. All of these issues prompted us to take a hard look at our data center strategy, to see where we could make it more efficient.

Therefore, we’ve launched into a significant undertaking. We’ve started the process to End of Life (EOL) or consolidate our data centers down to just eight strategic locations. This effort is planned to take us eight years, but we’re working to pull this in sooner. This initiative enables us to reduce costs, improve server and storage utilization, create higher density & more energy efficient data centers, and allows us to keep pace with our company’s rapid rate of innovation. The effort could deliver up to $750M in Net Present Value. View my video blog for more information.

I would be interested to hear your comments, questions and have you share with us what your company is doing to drive efficiency within your data centers.

Tags: virtualization, server, data_center, xeon, 45nm, it@intel, data_center_efficiency, green, server_consolidation, multicore

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Oct 31, 2007 3:23 PM

Ricky Chan says:

Hi Mr. Davis,

Your initiative using virtualization (DOME) etc. to reduce costs, improve server and storage utilization, create higher density & more energy efficient data centers and to save from 750m to 1.8 billion over years please the finance people.

We would like to add that if you can use our new 10Gig/per second High Speed/ High Density/ Tooless 48 port patch panel, you can cut another 50% of your rack space and perhaps 90% of your labor cost and other associated costs (cooling/ electricity/ cabling) in your 2 global hubs. If interested, I will be pleased to send your more information.

B.Rgds.

Ricky

rchan@rj-enterprises.com

Nov 1, 2007 8:48 AM

Raphael Bauduin says:

Hi,

Would you be interested to share your experience on virtualisation during a talk at Profoss ( http://www.profoss.eu ) in january? The january edition will focus on virtualisation. You can contact me by email: info at profoss dot eu.

Thanks

Raph

Nov 1, 2007 8:58 AM

Brently Davis says in response to Ricky Chan:

Ricky,

Thanks for the note, and whenever you mention Net Present Value, finance people are happy. We're always interested in saving more money and getting greener, therefore if you forward some info, I'll ensure it gets to the proper division focusing on efficiency. We have a very good Global Engineering group who investigates all types of opportunities.

My email address is brently.davis@intel.com

Rgds,

Brently

Nov 1, 2007 9:04 AM

Brently Davis says in response to Raphael Bauduin:

Raph,

You'd probably want to speak with the individual on our team(s) directly responsible for Virtualization. If you send me a formal request, I'll forward the info to those teams which can answer their availability.

Brently (brently.davis@intel.com)

Nov 8, 2007 2:09 PM

Doug Eichner says:

Brently,

Is it possible to get more information on the actual consolidation approach or multiple approaches if that's the case?

Doug

Jul 3, 2008 1:34 AM

Forex trading says in response to Brently Davis:

For IT managers in small to mid sized enterprises, the concept of a green data center is partly environmental, partly financial. Certainly, there’s a cumulative effect when more and more SMEs join the crusade for environmental computing, and that’s the ultimate motivation.

Apr 12, 2009 3:23 AM

Tom Benley says:

Brently, a very informative post, thx for it! I like those with videofiles, it helps a lot to understand the matter.

Regards, David.

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