Servers

& Blades

CNS offers enterprise class servers and blades as infrastructure based solutions from Data Center based ERP solutions to the office  based application solutions. Form factors range from desk side server units to rack mounted blades to floor standing super computers such as the HP Superdome or Sun M9000.

Our mini computer background still gives us advantage in understanding the complex and mission critical requirements of server and blade based technologies. We design, implement and manage projects from email servers to grids for high performance computing to application & data base servers for HA requirements.

Blades:

Blade servers were developed in response to a growing need in the Data Center  to increase server performance and availability without dramatically increasing the size, cost and management complexity. To keep up with user demand and because of the space and power demands of traditional tower and rackmount servers, data centers are being forced to expand their physical plant at an alarming rate.

Blades consolidate power and system level functions into a single, integrated chassis and enable the addition of servers and other components such as communications and peripheral connections via easy to install blades. Blade server technology greatly increases server density, lowers power and cooling costs, eases server expansion and simplifies Data center management.

Servers:

Design and specification requirements vary depending on the application. Absolute CPU speed is not usually as critical to a server as it is to a desktop PC or workstation. Servers provide applications to many users over the  network which  leads to different requirements like fast giga bit network connections and high disk  I/O throughput.

Chips

There are proprietary and commodity chip based server and blade designs. Proprietary  being RISC based and commodity Intel/AMD.
Intel is trying to challenge with the Nehalem server chip the proprietary environments such as SPARC or POWER RISC-systems. However organizations buy large IBM POWER, Sun SPARC and HP Itanium servers for their reliability, scalability, the software they run, etc.  However Intel and AMD are really designed for desktop, low end servers.

  

Electricity use in Data Centers is a huge cost that is increasing for most organizations, creating environmental concerns and generating negative publicity for government and private organizations in the UAE and beyond. With IRENA HQ moving to Abu Dhabi there will be more focus on renewable energy. Going green means looking to other technologies like virtualization, energy-efficient servers and blades, thin client designs, etc.,