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iMI Servers provide a powerful, high-density Server Platform to service your most intensive business applications and provide unparalleled virtualisation density.
Features and Benefits
- Greater Rack Density – 72 physical nodes
- Greater Flexibility
- Vertical Cooling Technology – provides increased power efficiency and environment reliability
- More processing power – server processor clock speeds are not throttled (unlike traditional blade systems)
- “Common Off The Shelf” server components allow for greater flexibility and reduced costs
- Capacity on demand – turn on more servers as you need them
- Storage, managed private IP connectivity, internet and security – all optional services providing a full turn-key solution
The iMI server platform provides businesses:
- A simple, yet scalable method to host your applications with dedicated server hardware
- Reduced colocation charges by only paying for space and power allocated per server
- Full server access and control, where customers retain full control of all software
- Monthly charges – no upfront costs
Technical Overview
Advantages and efficiencies gained by Vertical Cooling technology
The iMI servers are hosted within vertically cooled BladeRacks® (patented technology by Cirrascale Technologies), which create a high velocity stream of cool air driving away hot air created by high performance components and power supplies. Many high density (blade) installations utilise traditional front to back cooling, which creates hot and cold aisles in the data centre, as well as causing hot spots that lead to system failure and performance restrictions.
As hot air rises naturally, power and cooling efficiencies are gained allowing for higher density computing by having servers mounted at the front and the rear of the BladeRack®. Cooling with air flow is more effective than cooling with air temperature, which provides greater reliability and allows server processors to operate at full clock speed (un-throttled) - providing more computer power per server than traditional blade systems.
 
Server platforms
Cirrascale utilise “Common Off The Shelf Components” (COTS), which allows for great flexibility and affordability.
The full sized motherboards allow for more hardware density within each physical blade – more memory and network capacity, local hard drives and even CPU socket numbers when compared to other blade systems – reducing rack real estate and TCO.
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