Description

analyzed the problem of functional density in a modern
data center, considering traditional rack-mount discrete servers, new-generation blade servers,
and virtual servers on both Intel and System z mainframe platforms.
This paper presents the results of deploying each of these designs in a hypothetical urban-area
data center, owned by a single large enterprise or shared by multiple medium-sized enterprises (as
would be the case in a hosting provider). This scenario was selected to illuminate an emerging
constraint on Fortune 500 IT: the fundamental operational limits of existing high-value data
center space.