Cadence Design Systems India : Consolidated Datacenter

A consolidation project of 12 small computer rooms into one which has achieved a PUE of 81% and around 100% uptime!

Monday, June 01, 2009

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Previously, the entire compute server infrastructure of Cadence was scattered across 12 small computer rooms across three buildings in their Noida Campus. The huge amount of efforts required to maintain and manage a scattered infrastructure needed the move to consolidate 12 small sized server rooms into one large data center. The inefficiencies existed not just in maintaining the rooms but also in cooling, effective utilization and cost of creating minimum n+1 resiliency.

Three key challenges in front of the team were ensuring uptime, scalability and energy efficiency. And after the deployment, the team was able to overcome all these challenges in a brilliant manner. As a result, the new datacenter is giving them around 100% of uptime since May 2007 and the energy efficiency or PUE (power usage effectiveness) of the datacenter is around 81%. And as far as the scalability is concerned , the modular approach of the power backup solution has ensured that they did not have to commission an entire UPS power backup capacity in the beginning.

 As the datacenter utilization is going up, they can accordingly add more UPS modules hence reducing upfront capital cost and wastage of unused resources. Not only this, but the deployment has also reduced the IT support cost as after the deployment there is around 30% of reduction in IT Trouble tickets. It also has reduced air-conditioning expenses and reduced network cabling due to consolidation. And finally, it is also benefiting the organization because of the ease of manageability.

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