Case Study: Teradata Saves 2 Million KWh with Intel
"How often do you get to cut costs and do something better?” asks Scott Gnau, chief development offcer for Teradata R&D. Gnau led a recent project that consolidated 319 aging servers onto a private cloud based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. Gnau says the project saves enough energy to run more than 200 homes—and enough money to pay for itself within one year. The project also helped Teradata earn an energy incentive rebate of USD 250,000 from its local utility company, and enables Gnau’s IT team to better serve its internal customers.
Challenges
Aging Infrastructure.
Over 300 servers in the R&D test environment ran on single-core Intel® Xeon® processor technology, raising energy and management costs and limiting IT’s ability to respond to Teradata’s fast-changing R&D needs.
Solutions
Virtualize with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series.
With the power and energy-efficiency of the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, Teradata saw an opportunity to consolidate its R&D servers onto an internal cloud. Teradata deployed dual-socket quad-core servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series and Intel® Ethernet 10GB Dual-Port Server Adapters X520.
Read the full Server Refresh Yields Quarter-Million-Dollar Rebate Case Study.
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Case Study: Teradata Saves 2 Million KWh with Intel
"How often do you get to cut costs and do something better?” asks Scott Gnau, chief development offcer for Teradata R&D. Gnau led a recent project that consolidated 319 aging servers onto a private cloud based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. Gnau says the project saves enough energy to run more than 200 homes—and enough money to pay for itself within one year. The project also helped Teradata earn an energy incentive rebate of USD 250,000 from its local utility company, and enables Gnau’s IT team to better serve its internal customers.
Challenges
Aging Infrastructure.
Over 300 servers in the R&D test environment ran on single-core Intel® Xeon® processor technology, raising energy and management costs and limiting IT’s ability to respond to Teradata’s fast-changing R&D needs.
Solutions
Virtualize with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series.
With the power and energy-efficiency of the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, Teradata saw an opportunity to consolidate its R&D servers onto an internal cloud. Teradata deployed dual-socket quad-core servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series and Intel® Ethernet 10GB Dual-Port Server Adapters X520.
Read the full Server Refresh Yields Quarter-Million-Dollar Rebate Case Study.
