Samsung Paves the Way for More Energy Efficient Data Centers with Green DDR3 Enterprise SSD

Data center administrators around the globe are looking for more energy efficient technologies, which will help extend the life of the data centers, all the while keeping the operating costs at the minimum.

Samsung (News - Alert) Electronics' Green DDR3 DRAM memory can play a crucial role in checking the global energy drain from the data centers.

 

One of the key players in advanced semiconductor technology, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd has announced at HP Tech Forum 2010 that its 1.35 Volt, 1333 Mbps Green DDR3 DRAM memory, and Enterprise SSDs, have been chosen for use in HP ProLiant G6 and G7 servers using AMD (News - Alert) Opteron 6100 Series and Intel Xeon 5600 processors. Samsung has ctegorized its storage and memory solutions as the latest generation x86 class servers. According to the company, these products can be used in virtualized environments where energy efficiency and performance optimization are dual objectives of IT managers.

 

"The global energy drain from data centers is huge and it's worsening wherever IT managers have yet to embrace a green philosophy for their computing environments. By adding Samsung DDR3 and SSD's to HP's energy efficient ProLiant servers, the green IT solution becomes even more compelling," Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing and product planning at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. explained.

 

The company officials informed that Samsung's Green DDR3 uses advanced 40nm-class 1.35V 2Gb-based DRAM technology to improve the energy efficiency and performance of servers.

According to Samsung, the Green DDR3, consumes 73 percent less power than DDR2 and features bandwidth up to 1333 Mbps.

The company said at the Forum that the product is available in dual-in-line memory modules (DIMMs) from 4GB to 32GBs with the HP G7 and select G6 servers offering densities of 4GB (both registered and unregistered with error correction code (ECC), and 8GB registered DIMMs with ECC. As a result, the total power consumption of these servers is markedly less than that of previous generations.

 

The data centers and server farms which are using the new generations of HP ProLiant servers can especially benefit from Samsung Green DDR3 and SSDs. According to their makers, these energy efficient memory and storage solutions can free up to 27 percent of physical space for future capacity expansion.

 

Samsung 60GB and 120GB Enterprise SSDs make high performance options to conventional hard disk drives as they help provide a small footprint by facilitating faster data processing and lowering data center cooling costs.

 

"Clients need to maximize the performance of their virtualized infrastructure with energy-efficient technology that reduces operating costs and extends the life of their data centers. By integrating Samsung's Green DDR3 memory and Enterprise SSD components into its industry-leading ProLiant servers, HP is enabling customers to achieve faster data processing and higher performance with their computing infrastructure," Jim Ganthier, vice president of marketing, Industry Standard Servers at HP noted.