Data center compute resources are rapidly changing. In the 1990s, corporations tended to purchase large monolithic servers with many CPUs and proprietary operating systems and software platforms. These products had a high cost and a high failure rate. This was the “scale-up” era.
In the early 2000s, the “scale-out” era introduced commoditized servers—using fewer CPUs and built on an X86 platform—with a commoditized OS typically running a single application per server. These servers were underutilized and demanded an inordinate amount of power and cooling.
Today is the “scale-in” era. Ahead helps clients transition to high-density blade servers that leverage multi-core CPUs on an X86 platform and commoditized applications in virtual machines.
Ahead has considerable expertise in:
- implementing highly consolidated scale-in server architectures
- transitioning applications from legacy RISC platforms to Intel x86 architectures
- building a scalable management strategy for data center compute infrastructures
Our clients have achieved significant benefits in manageability, reduction in power and total floor space, and increase of overall compute resources within the data center.
