GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK. Whether the impetus is to reduce data center operational costs—a large proportion of which are energy-related—or to help save the planet, today’s IT managers are increasingly seeking suppliers of high performance, cost-effective, and energy-efficient Green IT products. They should look first to Supermicro.

With its Resource-Saving Architecture, Supermicro, the global supplier of computing server and storage systems, continues to lead the market with Green IT innovation that helps the environment as well as provides total cost of ownership (TCO) savings for customers.

Supermicro’s architecture optimizes data center power, cooling, shared resources, and refresh cycles. This modern approach focuses on reusing system enclosures—enabling the modular refresh of subsystems—and using optimized extended life subsystems, including networking, storage, cool-ing, fans, and power supplies.

Supermicro’s BigTwin, the industry’s highest performing twin multinode system, exemplifies the benefits of the Resource-Saving Architecture. With BigTwin, organizations can realize up to 50 per-cent power/cooling cost reduction.

Leading the WayToday’s IT leaders increasingly regard TCO as a measure of operational efficiency for their data centers. However, Supermicro found in a recent survey that 50 percent of the data center management do not know their PUE, and 12 percent do not recycle their outdated systems, which adds to the increase in e-waste when 47 percent of data centers are refreshing their systems every one to three years.

Supermicro is encouraging organizations to look more broadly at their strategy and start measuring their data center efficiency with a new metric: Total Cost to the Environment (TCE).

There are two ways to measure and improve TCE: improved data center power efficiency and reduc-ing e-waste. With Supermicro’s Resource-Saving Architecture, Supermicro customers can achieve both of those goals.

Going Green with SupermicroSupermicro’s Resource-Saving Architecture optimizes data center power, cooling, shared resources, and refresh cycles, reducing total cost of ownership.

For more information, go to www.supermicro.com/resource-savings-architecture.

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Stepping Up

At this year’s inaugural Global

Climate Action Summit in San

Francisco, Supermicro joined

21 innovative companies in the

Step Up Declaration, a new al-

liance dedicated to harnessing

the power of the fourth indus-

trial revolution to help reduce

greenhouse gas emissions

across all economic sectors.

With a focus on innovative tech-

nology advancements and data

center TCE, Supermicro urges

industry leaders to incorporate

disaggregated Resource-Saving

Solutions into their data center

plans, with a goal to lower the

average data center PUE and

reduce e-waste by 2025. The

health of our environment, our

planet, and our citizens may

depend on it.

Disaggregated server architecture. Server subsystems such as compute, memory, fans, power supplies, and chassis can be refreshed at different rates based on their independent lifecycle, reaping 45 to 60 percent savings in hardware refresh costs. A modular refresh of subsystems reduces e-waste as well.

Free air cooling. Achieves up to 30 percent improvement in Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a metric decision makers use to calculate efficient energy usage.

Pooled resources. With dynamic alloca-tion and configuration of critical data center resources organization can save up to 60 percent in HVAC costs

Rack scale design. Based on open industry standard rack scale management. Disag-gregated rack scale design delivers higher performance and more efficient servers at lower costs than a traditional rip-and replace model by allowing data centers to independently optimize adoption of new and improved technologies.

Resource-Saving Architecture Features