It was my pleasure to receive the Uptime Green Enterprise IT Award for eBay's modular data center deployment in Phoenix.
During my career I have been in a never-ending march towards cleaner technology solutions. For this deployment we worked with Dell to conceptualize the server and modular data center deployments to ensure we could attain extremely high efficiency, optimal costs, and rapid deployment.
It was great to have the efforts recognized by the Green Enterprise IT Awards, hosted by the Uptime Institute.
The annual awards, which recognize outstanding effort in the field of data center energy efficiency, are not ones that are easily received, and we had to meet a number of impressive criteria in order to be declared a winner.
In partnership with Dell, I received the “Modular Data Center Deployment” award for eBay's highly innovative Project Mercury.
One of my favorite photos from the deployment where we were lifting a little under 2,000 servers about three stories high over power lines to the rooftop.
Centered in Phoenix, Arizona, Project Mercury was an exploration into data center density—the building, packed with nearly 2,000 servers, uses “standardized racks of gear on the floor and…high-efficiency data center modules on the roof”. The setup is so unique, so innovative, that as modules are added to the building, its energy-efficiency actually improves.
The honor of being recognized by the Uptime Institute with other industry peers, such as Facebook, is a great validate of our approach on data center modularity and efficiency.