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http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=17039

Borsa Italiana implemented a HP Cluster Platform – consisting of 130 HP BladeSystem BL series servers powered by AMD Opteron multi-core processors – at its data centres in Milan and Turin.

HP says the Cluster Platform provides the exchange with “a high level of space efficiency and a very low level of power consumption”. This reduces hardware acquisition costs, floor space rental, energy management, software installation and operations costs. In addition, says the vendor, the back-office overhaul has dramatically reduced IT maintenance and installation time at the exchange.

Since deploying the HP technology Borsa Italiana has halved power and cooling costs at the data centres, says HP, and reduced its total cost of ownership by 50%, representing EUR1 million savings.

Very interesting, power and cooling issues aside, air flow remains key, that you don’t have little pockets of heat around the blades; however, they do remain a great platform, but as with anything it needs to be set up for your corporate environment, your data center constraints, choosing 48 blades over 48 1u or 2u servers will be more efficient in terms of the integrated switches etc. Check it out, an interesting read.

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