Gigantic Cloud Centers Deserve Mammoth Servers

Dell has been undergoing some serious rethinking lately as IT shops change their server and client hardware strategies. But high end server hardware is especially important in this new cloud era, as is drives fundamental services.

That is what we at MSP Today are sure is behind Dell PowerEdge C Series servers, which are helping MSP Carbon60 Networks become as efficient as possible.

Carbon60 is redoing its entire cloud infrastructure around the high-end Dell servers, and tying that computer horsepower to its insanely fast 40GB network.

Carbon60 serves a demanding group of clients in finance, media and public sector who need high performance and reliability.

The cloud may seem all virtual, but in reality is based on very real physical hardware. Cloud data centers have to be all about efficiency and here density matters. It often costs more to cool the data center than to run it.

Carbon60 gets it, and explains it all this way. “The rack-mounted PowerEdge C servers allow Carbon60 to maximize its computing power while helping minimize its footprint and power consumption. Carbon60 built its first ultra-dense, cluster cloud infrastructure using six rack-mounted Dell PowerEdge C6100 servers, each with eight Intel Xeon core X5670 processors,” the company said.

For providers in the competitive cloud space, economics are everything. “Total Cost of Ownership with our new ultra-dense, Dell cloud environment is extremely attractive. In coming months we plan to replace more legacy equipment with next generation Dell PowerEdge C Series servers to further improve our revenue to data-centre-cost ratio and in turn pass these cost savings on to our clients,” said Kelly Beardmore, CEO for Carbon60 Networks.