After decades of IT buildout, server sprawl is escalating system management costs and outstripping available data center space, power and cooling capabilities. In a recent survey, 42 percent of data center owners said they would exceed power capacity within the next 12-24 months, and 39 percent said they would exceed cooling capacity in the data center.
Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem helps lower energy costs with automated energy-efficiency features that deliver a 5x improvement in power management capabilities from the first Intel quad-core server processors: 5x as many operating states, a 5x reduction in idle power, and 5x faster transitions to and from low-power states. Intel Intelligent Power Technology puts power management in all platform components: the processor, chipset, and memory, enabling operating systems to put processor power and memory into the lowest states needed to support current workloads without compromising performance and allowing individual cores to be idled independent of the others. This combination of features enables the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series to deliver up to 50 percent lower server idle power.
Intel Intelligent Power Technology makes power available for critical workloads while conserving power where there is less demand, delivering as much as 2.25x more performance in a similar power envelope and dramatically reducing idle power.