Server energy declines

Energy demand for new servers will grow faster in Asia-Pacific and Western Europe than in the US over the next three years, according to a study commissioned by AMD, says TG Daily.

Results presented by Jonathan Koomey, project scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a consulting professor at Stanford University, found the US share of the global energy use to power servers may actually be declining over the next three years.

Koomey based his forecast on server installation data provided by IDC and estimates that the average annual world growth rate in server electricity use for 2005 to 2010 will be about 12%, down from about 16% per year growth observed between 2000 and 2005.

VMware has released the latest version of VMware Infrastructure 3, including VMware ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5, reports CNN Money.

The release provides new capabilities for increased levels of automation, improved overall infrastructure availability and higher performance for mission-critical workloads.

Numerous performance optimisations in ESX Server 3.5 such, as support for paravirtualised Linux and large memory pages, help bring significant performance gains to many common workloads such as Java applications and Oracle databases.

Violin Memory, in an alliance with AMD, will combine memory appliances and the HyperTransport technology high-speed interconnect in order to meet the demands of ever-increasing dataset size and application performance, according to CNN Money.

Violin`s Memory Appliances enable terabyte-scale DRAM memory through the use of a unique switched memory technology.

A single 2U appliance can support 84 Violin Memory Modules (VIMMs). Each module supports 6GB of DRAM, which provides for total appliance capacity of 504GB.