RESEARCH PAPER: Sustainable Performance in the Datacenter

By Matt Kimball, Patrick Moorhead - January 8, 2025

There is tension between a business’s need to maximize the value of AI across the organization and its need to drive down its energy consumption. On one side is the need for performance—powerful (and power-hungry) GPUs attached to highly performant storage. On the other side is a power budget that is expensive—in terms of carbon and datacenter footprint. Both sides contribute to significant financial costs.

While many datacenter professionals look to GPUs and CPUs as the key contributors, they often overlook the role of storage in this power consumption equation. This Moor Insights & Strategy (MI&S) pulse brief will explore this power challenge and how Solidigm’s new D5-P5336 SSD with a capacity of 122.88 TB helps datacenter operators solve for both performance and power consumption.

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Sustainable Performance in the Datacenter

 

Table of Contents

  • Summary
  • Sizing the Sustainability Challenge
  • The Storage Performance Tax
  • Solidigm Drives Sustainable Performance and Capacity
  • Call to Action

Companies Cited:

  • Solidigm
  • International Energy Agency
  • Dell Technologies
  • HPE
  • Lenovo
Matt Kimball
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Matt Kimball is a Moor Insights & Strategy senior datacenter analyst covering servers and storage. Matt’s 25 plus years of real-world experience in high tech spans from hardware to software as a product manager, product marketer, engineer and enterprise IT practitioner.  This experience has led to a firm conviction that the success of an offering lies, of course, in a profitable, unique and targeted offering, but most importantly in the ability to position and communicate it effectively to the target audience.

Patrick Moorhead

Patrick founded the firm based on his real-world world technology experiences with the understanding of what he wasn’t getting from analysts and consultants. Ten years later, Patrick is ranked #1 among technology industry analysts in terms of “power” (ARInsights)  in “press citations” (Apollo Research). Moorhead is a contributor at Forbes and frequently appears on CNBC. He is a broad-based analyst covering a wide variety of topics including the cloud, enterprise SaaS, collaboration, client computing, and semiconductors. He has 30 years of experience including 15 years of executive experience at high tech companies (NCR, AT&T, Compaq, now HP, and AMD) leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing, including three industry board appointments.