Baidu Shared Inspur Partnership Success at Gartner Data Center Conference

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- During Gartner's Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference, Baidu US's Chief Architect, Ali Heydari, talked about Baidu's standing partnership with Inspur, their collaborative drive for innovation in the hyperscale data center space, and how both companies want to bring their years of experience and success to the US.

Heydari shared a successful case study on their current partnership with Inspur in reducing TCO for hyperscale data centers.  "Baidu servers and racks are co-designed and built by Inspur. Because of their unique design of shared rack cooling and power infrastructure along with their extremely low data center PUEs, this renders very low operational costs and high reliability. The uptime with relatively low cost of rack builds have shown 30-40 percent total cost of ownership reduction compared to conventional OEM servers," said Heydari. To improve data center power and cooling efficiency, deployment efficiency, density and manageability, Inspur's Rack Scale Server SR is deployed as the most widely used search storage server platform – for Baidu, and other search and big data-heavy companies.

Improving Data Center Performance and Efficiency

Heydari shared partnership highlights between Baidu and Inspur on the Project Scorpio/Open Data Center Committee (ODCC) -- an Open Data Center initiative started by Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent since 2010 to collaboratively develop shared technology to reduce TCO and improve data center performance and efficiency, much like the OCP (Open Compute Project) started by Facebook. Baidu has been closely working with Inspur to deploy Open Data Center (ODC)/Scorpio designs throughout their data centers since 2012. Heydari emphasized that Inspur's energy-saving and reliable products are not only cost-saving and environmentally responsible solutions for Baidu, they are a fundamental contributor to Baidu's operational stability and overall success. Heydari also introduced next generation rack scale designs for high efficiency 48V power distribution architecture, liquid cooling and indirect evaporative cooling technology that Baidu and Inspur are working on together. 

Heydari summarized the major Open Data Center Projects currently available and predicted that the Open Source community shall converge on a common rack level design. "Inspur is working together with the ODCC and OCP communities to drive to a common open platform for rack scale", said Dolly Wu, Vice GM of American Region, "our engineers are working hard at designing the next generation open rack scale architectures to help our hyperscale customers reduce TCO and deploy infrastructure quickly to support the huge growth in ecommerce business."

About Inspur

Inspur is a leading global IT total solutions and services provider founded in 1945 with approximately 26,300 employees worldwide. Inspur is ranked by Gartner as the Top5 largest server manufacturer in the world and Top1 in China. Inspur provides our global customers with data center servers and storage solutions which are Tier1 quality and performance, energy efficient, cost effective and built specific to actual workloads and data center environments. Inspur is the majority server vendor for Alibaba and Baidu worldwide datacenters. As a leader in cloud computing and big data solutions, Inspur can provide total solutions at IaaS, PaaS and SaaS level with high-end servers, mass storage systems, cloud operating system and information security technology. For more information, visit http://www.inspursystems.com.

About Baidu

Baidu, Inc is founded since 2000 and is the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index.  As the leading Chinese web services company, Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese search engine for websites (with over 80% of China market share), audio files and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike (an online, collaboratively built encyclopedia) and a searchable, keyword-based discussion forum. Baidu offers multimedia content including MP3 music, and movies, and is the first in China to offer Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and personal digital assistant (PDA)-based mobile search.  The company hosts a music service, called Baidu Music, that has more than 150 million monthly active users.

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