Tagged to Utilize SGI Servers
SGI today announced that Tagged, Inc., is achieving significant power savings by leveraging SGI servers. In order to best serve its user base of over 300 million users worldwide, Tagged has replaced its aging and inefficient servers with SGI's power-efficient and extremely cost effective Intel Xeon processor E5-2670 servers.
SGI solutions allow Tagged, whose flagship product is a social network for meeting new people, to achieve huge power savings, enabling the company to purchase equipment for planned projects including storage for database standbys and future feature-based projects. Today, Tagged has a total of 1,167 operational servers powered by SGI, representing 70 percent of its total IT infrastructure.
Power consumption can become a hefty expense due to a multitude of servers. In order to improve performance and power ratios, companies often seek to replace aging, inefficient servers with newer, more efficient ones. By converting just one tier of older machines to SGI's new Intel Xeon processor E5-2670 servers, Tagged saved 50 kW of power. Tagged is also improving power capacity, space constraints and application usage within its San Francisco data center.
Tagged was originally a customer of Rackable Systems, a leading provider of servers and storage products for medium to large-scale data centers. Rackable Systems acquired SGI in April 2009, and changed the name of the combined company to Silicon Graphics International Corp.
