Innovative Enclosure Maximizes Power Usage and Provides 99 Percent
Power Distribution Efficiency with Power XE™
Rackable
Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:RACK), a leading provider of Eco-Logical™
servers and storage products for medium- to large-scale data centers,
today announced the immediate availability of CloudRack™ C2, a
unified cabinet which delivers dramatic bottom-line savings to data
centers by assuring maximum power and cooling efficiency. CloudRack C2
provides staggering server densities with up to 1,280 cores per cabinet
and 99 percent energy efficiencies.
Innovative Power Distribution
CloudRack C2 is the first of many Rackable products to utilize Power XE™
- a cabinet-level power distribution technology designed to:
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Virtually eliminate the data center “stranded power” problem (a data
center’s power capacity which is paid for, but ultimately unused) and
provides nearly perfect phase balancing
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Significantly improve power delivery efficiency by converting incoming
AC power to 99 percent efficient 12V DC power via hot-pluggable, N+1
redundant rectifiers
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Eliminate server-level power supplies and cooling fans for improved
reliability
Dramatic Thermal Efficiency
CloudRack C2 is thermally optimized to allow data centers to operate at
much higher temperatures, up to 40° C (104° F). Benefits include:
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Higher system temperature tolerance, which means significantly reduced
power consumption by Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units,
which in turn means radically reduced operating costs
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Thermally-managed airflow via hot-swappable, easily-serviceable,
cabinet-level N+1 redundant fan arrays for better enclosure reliability
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Auto-adjustable fan speed based on ambient room temperature, resulting
in more than 80 percent reduction of fan power compared to
conventional AC enclosures
“The CloudRack C2 is a landmark achievement for Rackable Systems. Most
notably, it solves the problem of stranded power,” said Mark J.
Barrenechea, president and CEO of Rackable Systems. “Data centers can
now also reduce power consumption by simply turning up the thermostat
while using CloudRack C2.
