A Sunny Outlook for Energy-Efficient Performance
Sunnybrook cuts costs and meets density and power requirements with Intel® Xeon® processors
As a Canadian leader that cares for 1 million patients annually, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre faced rising demand for services—but its main data center was reaching capacity. By virtualizing on Intel® Xeon® processors and upgrading the data center’s cooling technology, Sunnybrook doubled the number of racks its data center can support and significantly reduced energy consumption. Sunnybrook saves tens of thousands of dollars each year on electricity costs and earned a one-time Data Centre Incentive Program (DCIP) incentive award of CAD 33,360 from its utility provider, Toronto Hydro Electric System Ltd.
CHALLENGES
• Rising demand. One of Canada’s most prestigious healthcare institutions, Sunnybrook develops and deploys a wide range of new healthcare applications.
• Aging data center. Sunnybrook’s lead data center was 20 years old, bursting at the seams, and unable to support the institution’s growing IT requirements.
• Constrained budgets. Canadian healthcare budgets are “very, very tight,” according to Oliver Tsai, Sunnybrook IT director. He needed cost-effective solutions that could reduce operating costs.
SOLUTIONS
• Energy-efficient Intel Xeon processors. Sunnybrook virtualized on Dell PowerEdge* R710 servers powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 with 32 GB of RAM and VMware vSphere* 4. Now it is moving up to the six-core Intel® Xeon® processor X5670 and 96 GB of RAM.
• Power and cooling upgrade. Sunnybrook added another uninterruptible power supply (UPS), replaced its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit with American Power Conversion (APC) InRow Cooling* technology, and reorganized its equipment.
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A Sunny Outlook for Energy-Efficient Performance
Sunnybrook cuts costs and meets density and power requirements with Intel® Xeon® processors
As a Canadian leader that cares for 1 million patients annually, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre faced rising demand for services—but its main data center was reaching capacity. By virtualizing on Intel® Xeon® processors and upgrading the data center’s cooling technology, Sunnybrook doubled the number of racks its data center can support and significantly reduced energy consumption. Sunnybrook saves tens of thousands of dollars each year on electricity costs and earned a one-time Data Centre Incentive Program (DCIP) incentive award of CAD 33,360 from its utility provider, Toronto Hydro Electric System Ltd.
CHALLENGES
• Rising demand. One of Canada’s most prestigious healthcare institutions, Sunnybrook develops and deploys a wide range of new healthcare applications.
• Aging data center. Sunnybrook’s lead data center was 20 years old, bursting at the seams, and unable to support the institution’s growing IT requirements.
• Constrained budgets. Canadian healthcare budgets are “very, very tight,” according to Oliver Tsai, Sunnybrook IT director. He needed cost-effective solutions that could reduce operating costs.
SOLUTIONS
• Energy-efficient Intel Xeon processors. Sunnybrook virtualized on Dell PowerEdge* R710 servers powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 with 32 GB of RAM and VMware vSphere* 4. Now it is moving up to the six-core Intel® Xeon® processor X5670 and 96 GB of RAM.
• Power and cooling upgrade. Sunnybrook added another uninterruptible power supply (UPS), replaced its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit with American Power Conversion (APC) InRow Cooling* technology, and reorganized its equipment.
Read the full A Sunny Outlook for Energy-Efficient Performance.
