Name: Gearing Up for Sustainability: Circularity & Metrics
Start: 2021-12-28T16:00:00Z
End: 2021-12-28T16:00:46.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

ITRenew, the Circular Cloud leader, refuses to settle for a world that pits economic success against social good. ITRenew creates second lives and reuse pathways for the most advanced technology on the planet, bringing circular economic benefits to the data center and IT hardware industry. This approach to unprecedented data, application workload and infrastructure demands opens up billions in new financial opportunity, slashes e-waste and CO2 impact, and makes hyperscale hardware accessible to and affordable for all. Our products and services power cloud and enterprise data centers, edge infrastructure, AI/ML, embedded and industrial systems, which is why the world’s leading data center owners, service providers and enterprises choose ITRenew to revolutionize how their infrastructure is managed and deployed. ITRenew is headquartered in California with locations worldwide. To learn more, visit www.itrenew.com and follow ITRenew on LinkedIn and Twitter @ITRenewinc.

OCP members Asperitas and ITrenew have joined forces to integrate individual OCP accepted products. The Asperitas AIC24 is an immersion cooling tank solution compliant to the OCP immersion cooling requirement. 

In 2020 Asperitas submitted the immersion optimised cassette to OCP. Asperitas and ITrenew will be showcasing a fully integrated solution based on this standard and with the Sesame by ITrenew circular solutions. The solution will be listed on the Sustainability Solutions marketplace and is offering a very high energy efficiency, with minimal non-IT energy, to be warm water cooled and deliver a high output, making free cooling an option in any climate and heat reuse feasible. Integrated this solution will offer a high density environment with 72 nodes that can be cooled with 45 degrees Celsius in the facility without any fans or pumps. The presentation will include insight in the OCP qualification process, optimisation and test results.

The Circular Economy Meets Immersion Cooling: An Integrated Solution

Cloud-native applications have come of age. Most companies making the shift to hybrid clouds, containers and Kubernetes are seeking a range of productivity improvements, resource efficiency, portability and increased scalability. For years, the largest hyperscale cloud providers have been driving significantly better results and operational savings from both their hardware and software stacks by adopting open hardware architecture alongside open source software. Now these gains are readily available to enterprise and hybrid cloud computing customers everywhere. We will address how hardware-plus-software solutions using high- density and high-efficiency OCP hardware, software-defined storage and software-defined networking enable hybrid cloud Kubernetes clusters. With the addition of Azure ARC and Google Anthos, these solutions straddle public and private clouds in a flexible way, all managed from a coherent set of self-service dashboards.

Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Your Cloud-Native Workloads TODAY

OCP brings the best technology design ideas together to address growing infrastructure demands. Quarnot and ITRenew are collaborating to adapt OCP designs in ways that mitigate environmental impact and make the IT industry more sustainable.

Quarnot is a company that recovers and reuses the heat generated by servers to warm buildings. ITRenew is a global leader in data center circularity, transforming decommissioned hyperscale technology into efficient compute, storage and networking solutions that eliminate eWaste and pre-use phase carbon. There is an obvious synergy in the way both companies are turning potential sources of waste into valuable assets, and an opportunity to apply this collective expertise to the challenge of sustainably scaling OCP adoption

Quarnot and ITRenew collaboration on OCP ready heat recovery system solution

Sri and Jay will talk about the body of work that went into enabling the OCP Mono Lake high-density single-socket server platform transform it from a platform meant for hyperscaling to a general-purpose platform that opens possibilities in datacenter, edge, and so many others.

The effort to open the platform was not trivial. Sri and Jay will address the challenges of opening a platform which there are many areas of work to be done from the host firmware to coreboot and more. That look back will be followed with a conversation about what the platform can do today, including time to garner feedback and comments from the community.

Monolake Platform Enablement – Open All The Way Down

The computing industry is on track to represent almost 10% of global greenhouse gases by 2025, so more sustainable approaches to system design are critical to consider today. We see a Circular Economy approach to computing as a must-do imperative.

How effective is Circular Economy? This talk will first give a wide picture of the circular economy with a focus on server components and their carbon footprint. We introduce Cedaci tool to measure the circular economy for the datacenter industry. Our combined talk showcases the carbon reduction of the circular economy and proposes a tool to deliver it.

Circularity - Planning for Carbon Reduction

Despite renewable energy progress, the data center industry’s carbon footprint keeps growing. We won’t “offset” our way out of this crisis. To reverse decades of damage, we need to take the fight to largest sources of CO2 and eWaste in IT and widen the lens through which decarbonization and sustainability are measured. Join ITRenew, who’s circular, sustainable infrastructure approach is eliminating the 75% of pre-use carbon tied to IT globally. And EcoDataCenter, the Swedish pioneers behind the world’s first climate positive data center. They’ll discuss new solutions turning once-aspirational targets into industry standards for companies like Green AI Cloud (how about net CO2 savings of 100+ grams of carbon/kWh?). This is the next step in carbon modeling: a holistic scope 1, 2, 3 approach that comprehends both hardware and the environment in which it exists. Marrying traditional metrics with building materials, power supplies, and how technology is designed, sourced and implemented.

Moving Carbon Action and Accounting Upstream

Improving sustainability is very much on the agenda of most enterprise IT teams. However, achieving this amidst a global pandemic, supply chain disruption, staff shortages, and tightened IT budgets can make this task seem impossible & costly.

In this webinar, Omdia Analyst Vlad Galabov, President of ITRenew, Ali Fenn, and Steve Helvie from the Open Compute Project will delve into recertified open compute solutions, available today, that offer IT buyers a practical way to increase sustainability AND remove supply chain and budget obstacles.

Join us as we discuss:
The benefits of open architecture
Comparisons of the CAPEX & OPEX gains of utilizing energy-efficient recertified equipment, and the time to market
The total cost of ownership advantages of building IT infrastructure with smart technology that is sustainably built

Sustainability & Cost Reduction: How You Can Have Both

OCP is no stranger to myths and misconceptions. It comes with the territory when the new and unknown threatens the status quo. Together we’ve worked to debunk fictions like Open can’t be as good, it’s impossible for anyone but hyperscalers to adopt, and it’s hard to deploy.  In this Talk, we’ll tackle a fresh round of myths – those surrounding recertified OCP hardware. Despite all the advantages circular economics brings to the data center – lower cost, better performance & resiliency, higher efficiency, time-to-value and sustainability – many who could benefit still hesitate. Hear from an experienced vanity HW and proprietary SW product manager who learned the truth, rejected long-held false beliefs and offers a fresh take on OCP acceleration through renewable IT infrastructure.  She’ll cover the tough questions, give you the facts, and share breakthrough concepts – like reimagined supply chains that smash current roadblocks to bits  – that will put any lingering objections to rest.

The Myths of Renewable Infrastructure

Join us for an overview of design adaptations made in collaboration with our customers and partners to increase the deployed density of OCP compute, storage, and GPU solutions. By using advanced cooling solutions, high-density and high-performance NVMe storage devices, and high-performance GPU modules, we can increase the delivered density of dual-socket OCP servers by several factors and achieve:
- ninety-six (96) dual-socket servers per rack (from 2,000 to nearly 4,000 CPU cores per rack)
- over 1.4 PB (petabytes) of >1m IOPS per node NVMe flash storage converged nodes per rack
- over 5.8 PB (petabytes) of >10m IOPs per node dense flash storage per rack
- over sixty-four (64) GPUs arranged in high-performance multi-GPU clusters per rack
All interconnected with 25G and 100G networking for high cluster-level throughput that can handle the most demanding customer workloads. Clusters are certified with various container and virtual machine software stacks, as well as AI computing frameworks.

Increasing Compute and Storage Density with OCP Designs

Demand for new Edge capabilities is relentless, yet efforts to make it easy to deploy and scale infrastructure have been stuck in low gear…until now. A group of industry leaders have created “Easy Edge” solutions based entirely on OCP hardware. Circular, open architecture solutions that build best-in-class hyperscale tech into the most cost-efficient and sustainable gear. Now OCP can enable smart everything: from campuses to cities, lamp posts to roadways, at scale. And help customers and partners reach ESG targets faster. OCP members ITRenew, the leader in data center circularity, and Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, have partnered with EDJX and VPS to enable broad, rapid deployment and monetization of non-traditional data center environments. Learn how all-in-one, integrated solutions - inclusive of power, cooling, heating, switching, compute, storage, networking and instant CDN – make “Easy Edge” reality for all.

Easy Edge: It’s Open and It’s Everything

Erik Ridel our SVP of Engineering and Mike Capuano, CTO of Pluribus Networks come together to participate in the Tech Bytes podcast with hosts Drew Conry-Murray and Greg Farro to talk about how to get cloud agility on-premises. Listen in as we cover how both ITRenew and Pluribus Networks specialize in providing high-performance rack-level infrastructure,  and the approach we take to deliver gear for customers that are looking to build out private clouds. Learn how to achieve cloud agility and ease of use with on-prem performance and security; all with industry-leading TCO savings.

PODCAST TECH BYTES: CLOUD AGILITY, ON-PREM PERFORMANCE WITH PLURIBUS & ITRENEW

How immersion cooling integrates with high density compute to deliver sustainable, hyperscale technology to your data center 

In this presentation learn how ITRenew and Asperitas have partnered to deliver an integrated solution that increases data center efficiency and reduces waste and CO2 production. Achieving sustainability while meeting the demands of high-density compute in your data center doesn’t have to be difficult. In this video, you will hear from Erik Riedel, Senior Vice President of Engineering of ITRenew, and Andy Young, Chief Technology Officer of Asperitas.

Asperitas Immersion Cooling Solutions FAQ

Cloud-native applications have come of age. Most companies making the shift to Kubernetes are seeking productivity improvements, resource efficiency, portability, and increased scalability. The large hyperscaler cloud providers have been driving significantly better results from their hardware and software stacks by adopting open hardware architecture and open source software. But are these gains readily available to the average data center provider running cloud native workloads? And are the power and carbon footprint improvements over typical rack systems significant enough to warrant a change to open architecture? The answer to both is yes.

Reduce the carbon footprint of your cloud-native workloads now

Are you confident that you have the right data center architecture to support your business-critical applications?
 
Are you finding it difficult to manage your data center infrastructure when you need to make changes? Can you scale as your needs grow? Now is the time for you to modernize your data center with an architecture that's open and simple. Open architecture allows you to make your data center more efficient, flexible, and scalable.

Join us for a conversation on:
● How open architecture drives massively improved data center density and efficiency
●	How the Open Computer Project (OCP) fosters a collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to support your growing compute, storage, and networking demands
●	Delivering state-of-the-art performance and reliability without compromise.

How Can I Get All the Advantages of a Modern Data Center Architecture?

Tired of missing out on the most advanced IT hardware because you don’t have the fattest wallet? What would it mean for your business if you could scale your data center on demand and add capabilities without constraints like those massive “hyperscale” players that dominate the cloud services industry? Stop wondering. Now you can. 

Let us show you how to leverage the $120B that the largest data center operators in the world spend every year. Learn how easy it can be to step up your infrastructure game while getting more compute, storage and networking power from every dollar you plan to spend. This webcast will break down what works for hyperscalers and show you how to bridge the gap from their approach to your own data center needs. We will help you understand key competitive advantages and show you how to get there while growing your business and reducing time-to-value for you and your customers. Join us as we explain and share the benefits.

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Sesame’s breakthrough building block approach means you can finally have all the high-performance infrastructure you need, whenever you need it. We’re talking cost-effective, advanced infrastructure. Pre-configured for your demanding workloads and tuned to your needs. No long, expensive order cycles, racking and stacking, or data center redesign required.

Rack-scale Reimagined.

Technology leaders in the OCP community are committing to a series of net zero carbon goals, and the panel will discuss the emerging work to integrate sustainable design of OCP devices. A panel of 5 speakers will explain the work and how companies can get involved. The speakers will also share relevant metrics for measurement, consortiums, supplier considerations and challenges in each of the areas, portraying a holistic picture in an interesting and relatable way. 5 key phases of lifecycle and circularity of an OCP equipment (A Rack, A Server, A Switch, A router) will be used to tell the story on how to:  

design waste out 
select reusable and renewable materials.
manufacture with recyclability in mind, disclosure, certifications, and take back  
use in the most sustainable way with carbon calculation 
reuse with knowledge of all the above, downstream market, carbon value

Gearing Up for Sustainability: Circularity & Metrics

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