UII UPDATE 42 | Q1 2020
Intelligence Update
Optimizing server refresh cycles with an aging Moore’s law
Hardware refresh is the process of replacing older, less efficient servers with newer, more efficient ones with more compute capacity.
However, there is a complication to the refresh cycle that is relatively recent: the slowing down of Moore’s law. There is still a very strong case for savings in energy when replacing servers that are up to nine years old. However, the case for refreshing more recent servers — say, up to three years old — may be far less clear, due to the stagnation witnessed in Moore’s law over the past few years.
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