NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 2, 2009 – InteliCloud, a developer and manufacturer of true next-generation data center (NGDC) equipment, today touted the substantial ‘green’ benefits, including a clear return-on-investment (ROI), for data centers with its InteliCloud 360 compared to traditional server solutions.
Announced earlier this year, the InteliCloud 360 re-imagines network infrastructure to tightly integrate off-the-shelf components with proprietary hardware and software into a single chassis, dramatically simplifying the operation, scalability and overall agility of the network.
According to Ken Hubbard, CEO of InteliCloud, “Most data center equipment providers today point to the power efficiencies of software virtualization and cooler-running processors as the focal point of their energy savings and green attributes. Both solutions have issues that can actually increase overall power usage. ”
“The InteliCloud 360 goes substantially further by facilitating the stacking of services such as voice, video, data and games onto a single network, enabling dramatic reductions in both energy and real estate costs,” Hubbard said. “Our green solution brings a tangible ROI for all types of Internet service providers, eliminating the ‘air-conditioned furnace’ that is most data centers.”
Designed from the ground up to deliver market-leading “green” benefits, the InteliCloud 360 architecture features a unique patent-pending blade frame input/output structure that removes the 1:1 relationship between services and hardware, enabling all the hardware in the network and/or data center to be available for all services. By virtualizing the network and storage interfaces, an application can move without interruption from blade to blade and chassis to chassis throughout the network.
The InteliCloud 360’s ability to remove the hardware bottleneck and enable SPx to stack multiple services saves more than 60 percent in hardware costs by eliminating idle redundant equipment. This also results in a 60 percent reduction in power and space requirements and a three-fold increase in the number of customers served per square foot compared to today’s blade and rack mount servers. The InteliCloud 360 also manages power consumption by turning off components that are not required and moving processes around to preserve efficiencies within the network.
According to the EPA, data center servers and related network infrastructure equipment represent 1.5 percent of all electricity used in the United States, a figure that has doubled from 2000-2005 and is expected to double again by 2011. Most of the electricity used is generated by coal-fired plants and other carbon-intensive methods that emit greenhouse gases connected to global warming.
In addition, due to the increasing energy demand, power failures and supply limitations will halt operations at some point in 90 percent of all data center operations, according to the EPA. Roughly half of all data centers today have insufficient power supplies, the EPA has said.
“These are stark numbers for SPx who wish to maintain uninterrupted service for their customers,” Hubbard said. “That’s why it makes good business sense to maximize the performance of data center equipment as much as possible. We believe the InteliCloud 360 can serve as a critical part of that solution.”
About InteliCloud
Founded in 2007, InteliCloud Technology is a developer and manufacturer of next-generation Internet network equipment. The company’s cutting-edge network solutions provide a next-generation Internet network solution that supplies the infrastructure, speed and bandwidth customers are demanding from their Internet service, telecommunications, cable, satellite, online gaming, wireless and entertainment providers. These solutions deliver a dramatic leap in technology advancement, reducing integration and operating costs by more than 60 percent. InteliCloud’s engineering team created this disruptive technology by combining voice, video and data functionality into one single server chassis, utilizing six distinct spheres of Intellectual Property (IP) and several patentable technologies in the areas of energy savings, management systems and chassis design for increased throughput. More information is available at http://www.intelicloud.com.
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