By Connor Bray, Supermicro Product Controller at ETB Technologies
In a world where energy prices are always growing, and businesses are under constant pressure to reduce their waste and meet sustainability targets, choosing equipment that minimises power consumption while performing reliably is crucial. As well as staying green, many companies are focusing on tech that can keep up with the everchanging demand set by workloads such as:· AI deep learning
· Cloud-computing
· Visualisation
· Big data analytics
Businesses choose Supermicro for their ability to offer such a wide range of solutions, which makes them a crowd favourite. Everything they offer is either efficient, dense, or powerful; commonly a mix of the three. There is a system for every requirement, and more upgrades for each system than you could ever need.
Performance and Scalabilty
Supermicro pride themselves on their innovative first-to-market solutions so their customers can rely on them to deliver the highest performance infrastructure that will give them the edge in today’s market.
With a focus on modularity, whether it is the expandability optimised Ultra Series, with up to 24 DIMMs and swappable PCIe expansion risers or a Multi-Node Twin System, allowing up to 8 processors in a compact 2U space, Supermicro systems can help to exponentially scale up a DCs total computational output without compromising on costs.
Supermicro’s design ethic brings plug-and-play solutions that are high-end and low-cost straight out of the box. They also make it as easy as possible to upgrade already deployed equipment, whether it is CPUs, storage, RAM, I/O devices, or whole nodes.
Cost Efficiency
The growing demands in all fields are forcing data centres to think of new ways of optimising their total cost of ownership (TCO). A great way to increase productivity while keeping costs low is to increase density and efficiency.
Supermicro’s focus on redundancy and modularity allows customers to replace only components that need to be updated, reducing E-Waste while utilising the most efficient and latest components.
Because of this, Supermicro have cemented themselves as one of the global leaders of computational density, encompassing the idea of green computing. With SuperBlades, their groundbreaking GPU-Ready range or their Hyper Series, they have introduced product ranges that have raised the bar for data centre efficiency, in turn reducing the overall cost of deploying server and storage technology.
They follow up this density in their SuperStorage range, with server solutions that can also allow petabytes of storage. Coming in form factors such as the timeless CSE-847, a 4U 36-bay 3.5” SAS3 chassis that still has space for a Dual-CPU motherboard, boot drives and 7 low profile expansion slots, or cutting-edge all-flash SuperStorage servers that utilise the incredible EDSFF solid-state drives and PCIe Gen5 devices.
A Vast Catalogue of Products
Supermicro employ a “Global SKU Program” - a list of products that are proven to withstand today’s demands and are staples for any Supermicro customer. Including motherboards, chassis, expansion cards and even whole servers. These components, such as the chassis, can be used over several generations. Allowing engineering teams to provide familiar solutions with innovative technologies.
These common building blocks not only allow the Supermicro team to roll out hundreds of application optimised server models, giving Supermicro the broadest and deepest portfolio of products of the enterprise world, but also allows consumers to create their own solutions that are catered to the specific and everchanging demands the technology sector face. This benefits the refurbished market by letting consumers familiarise themselves with certain models and components - giving them a starting point when upgrading their servers to newer and more efficient generations.
The offerings of Supermicro servers and parts you can buy at ETB Technologies are no exception. If you’d like to find out more about how we can help you find the right Supermicro server for your business, then please do get in touch – we'd love to hear from you.
