LAS VEGAS, Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- During Gartner's
Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference,
Baidu US's Chief Architect, Ali
Heydari, talked about Baidu's standing partnership with
Inspur, their collaborative drive for innovation in the hyperscale
data center space, and how both companies want to bring their years
of experience and success to the US.
Heydari shared a successful case study on their current
partnership with Inspur in reducing TCO for hyperscale data
centers. "Baidu servers and racks are co-designed and built
by Inspur. Because of their unique design of shared rack cooling
and power infrastructure along with their extremely low data center
PUEs, this renders very low operational costs and high reliability.
The uptime with relatively low cost of rack builds have shown 30-40
percent total cost of ownership reduction compared to conventional
OEM servers," said Heydari. To improve data center power and
cooling efficiency, deployment efficiency, density and
manageability, Inspur's Rack Scale Server SR is deployed as the
most widely used search storage server platform – for Baidu, and
other search and big data-heavy companies.
Improving Data Center Performance and Efficiency
Heydari shared partnership highlights between Baidu and Inspur
on the Project Scorpio/Open Data Center Committee (ODCC) -- an Open
Data Center initiative started by Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent since 2010 to collaboratively develop
shared technology to reduce TCO and improve data center performance
and efficiency, much like the OCP (Open Compute Project) started by
Facebook. Baidu has been closely working with Inspur to deploy Open
Data Center (ODC)/Scorpio designs throughout their data centers
since 2012. Heydari emphasized that Inspur's energy-saving and
reliable products are not only cost-saving and environmentally
responsible solutions for Baidu, they are a fundamental contributor
to Baidu's operational stability and overall success. Heydari also
introduced next generation rack scale designs for high efficiency
48V power distribution architecture, liquid cooling and indirect
evaporative cooling technology that Baidu and Inspur are working on
together.
Heydari summarized the major Open Data Center Projects currently
available and predicted that the Open Source community shall
converge on a common rack level design. "Inspur is working together
with the ODCC and OCP communities to drive to a common open
platform for rack scale", said Dolly
Wu, Vice GM of American Region, "our engineers are working
hard at designing the next generation open rack scale architectures
to help our hyperscale customers reduce TCO and deploy
infrastructure quickly to support the huge growth in ecommerce
business."
About Inspur
Inspur is a leading global IT total solutions and services
provider founded in 1945 with
approximately 26,300 employees
worldwide. Inspur is ranked by Gartner as the Top5 largest server
manufacturer in the world and Top1 in China. Inspur provides our global customers
with data center servers and storage solutions which are Tier1
quality and performance, energy efficient, cost effective and built
specific to actual workloads and data center environments. Inspur
is the majority server vendor for Alibaba and Baidu worldwide
datacenters. As a leader in cloud computing and big data solutions,
Inspur can provide total solutions at IaaS, PaaS and SaaS level
with high-end servers, mass storage systems, cloud operating system
and information security technology. For more information,
visit http://www.inspursystems.com.
About Baidu
Baidu, Inc is founded since 2000 and is the first Chinese
company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index. As the
leading Chinese web services company, Baidu offers many services,
including a Chinese search engine for websites (with over 80% of
China market share), audio files
and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including
Baidu Baike (an online, collaboratively built encyclopedia) and a
searchable, keyword-based discussion forum. Baidu offers multimedia
content including MP3 music, and movies, and is the first in
China to offer Wireless
Application Protocol (WAP) and personal digital assistant
(PDA)-based mobile search. The company hosts a music service,
called Baidu Music, that has more than 150 million monthly active
users.
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