The concept of information system

Real World Class 3

Case Study Question

1. What business benefits are driving the trend toward rack-mounted servers ?
2. What potential problems can you foresee with a move to such servers?  What are some possible solution ?
3. Do you believe that rack-mounted servers are going to replace large servers or mainframes ? Why or why not ?

answer

1. Business benefits are driving the trend toward rack-mounted servers?

• lower acquisition cost including san/lan integration
• lower service costs for deployment and troubleshooting and repair.
• lower power, cooling, and space requirements.
• reliability improved
• manageability improvements

2.       Because had to ramp up servers support, and he had only one 8,000 square foot facility in college station, Texas to do it.

some possible solution is :

1. 1U server is allowed AMS to maximize the number of servers per square foot of valuable data center area.
2. Not require more network storage systems.
3. Data facility has adequate power supply to support the server rack.

3.      yes, I believe because The next greatest innovation, changing the future of blade servers may be credited to Lightfleet. Lightfleet is a corporation that was founded in 2003 to “deliver simplified solutions in the increasingly complex world of computing.” (Lightfleet) This corporation’s latest technology will provide an alternative to the cabling and switching which are used to connect and transfer data between server nodes that are found in businesses today. (Fried 2010) The alternative is the use of light which will not only affect the serve’s speed, but it will also affect how much power the server will require, the amount of heat the server will produce, along with any bottlenecking problems. Lightfleet’s new technology attempts to improve and overcome these events through the use of light and mirrors (as displayed in the Lightfleet Diagram). “The receivers work a bit like a tiny video camera, capturing all of the light signals that come in so that something known as a demultiplexer can then translate the signals into a bunch of ones and zeroes.” This reveals how one transmitter can potentially transmit to up to 32 nodes at once. A node may also transfer and talk to several nodes at the same time.