IBM aims to drive cloud data centres with energy-efficient mainframe

BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM has announced that it has built an energy-efficient mainframe that could portend future data centers that consume less power.

IBM has deployed these technologies with its latest generation zEC12 mainframe system that is being run on solar power, water cooling and high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technologies – completely off the electric grid.

"We are constantly exploring ways in which we can make our data centers more energy efficient and help reduce the electric cost. We have created the first highly energy efficient data center by integrating solar energy together with water cooling and HVDC solutions. This integration has opened up new possibilities in the area of energy efficiencies and is the latest investments made at the India lab to design an efficient and smarter data center," said Sandesh Bhat, VP, India software labs, IBM India/South Asia.

Engineers at IBM India have now integrated solar energy together with water cooling and HVDC solutions to create energy-efficient data center.

Arvind Krishna, general manager of development & manufacturing at IBM, said,"We have been working to make our data centers less energy "hungry" and adapt more green technologies. As we have added each piece of the energy-savings puzzle -- integrating solar energy, water cooling and HVDC -- we now see a set of technologies that could completely transform the way data centers are designed."