Server Expectation And Challenges
The volumes of data that most organizations amass will grow exponentially with each passing year. Thus, the threat of running out of data space, high power utilization, thermal energy consumption, and rising energy cost will emerge as the main concerns. From a CIO’s perspective and from a compute standpoint, there are two requirements — maximizing power in servers while keeping them cool, and minimizing power usage cost. CIOs will look at servers that can get more work done in a shorter amount of time, using less power.
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