CUSTOMER
Founded in 1995, eBay connects a diverse and passionate community of individual buyers and sellers and small businesses. With more than 90 million active users globally, eBay is the world’s largest online marketplace, where practically anyone can buy and sell nearly anything.
CHALLENGES
With compute loads — and operating costs — on the rise, eBay created and began executing a four-year data center plan with an ambitious goal:
- To cut power costs in half
- To double compute performance
- To gain greater operational agility and increased reliability
SOLUTIONS
- Power Management
- Raritan PX intelligent rack PDUs
RESULTS
- eBay developed a model for its data centers that makes their IT operations both highly reliable and 50% less expensive to operate than the data centers they are decommissioning.
- In addition to minimizing faults and lowering operating costs, eBay’s South Jordan, Utah facility has achieved the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Gold ranking.
- Just as crucial as the LEED Gold efficiency ranking and Tier IV reliability is the flexibility designed into the eBay data center.“ The first time we used the Raritan PX rack power distribution units in a branch office, it paid for itself.”