Rackonomics 101

In modern data centers, rackonomics refers to the concept of designing, provisioning and replicating server compute, data network infrastructures and storage area networks (SANs) rack by rack to decrease the total cost of ownership of data center infrastructures, reduce IT complexity and enable incremental scalability.

Racks are a standard data center form factor that house blade and “pizza box” servers and/or storage systems, access/aggregation switches, and power supplies. Through rackonomics, data center architects can build and perfect a rack of equipment to meet application and business requirements. This standardized set of equipment then can be replicated uniformly and on demand rack by rack as needs require to provision massive Web 2.0 environments, high-performance clusters and virtualized data centers.

• The Rackonomic Data Center: It’s all about Racks, Rows and even Containers—CEO Blog
• Clabby Analytics—Product Brief—Overloaded Networks and the Evolution of “Rackonomics”
• Video—Rackonomics and Virtual, Cooler and Easier Networking

Learn about BLADE products to help you with Rackonomics:

• RackSwitch
• IBM BladeCenter
• HP BladeSystem
• NEC SIGMABlade