Andy Patrizio of InternetNews reports on new gear from the company that allows data center operators to bunch more computing and storage capacity together without driving up power consumption.

The new designs deliver up to twice the density of existing Rackable Systems servers in the same physical footprint, while also reducing power consumption. Emphasis was placed on increasing local storage and compute density, rather than depending on attached storage or moving data around to process it.

Despite the increased density, Rackable specifically stressed power efficiencies as a major plus. "Our number one power claim is ecological," Geoff Noer, senior director of product marketing for Rackable told InternetNews.com. "It's leveraging everything we've learned and leveraging power efficiencies and a number of components across servers."

One of the standout new pieces of hardware is the Scale Out Blade ST2000 (pictured right).

In addition, there is the Scale Out Blade ST2000, a 9U rack and the highest-density rack the company has ever offered. It supports three power modules and 12 dual socket modules, for 21 cores per U and 11TB of storage per U.

21 cores, 11TB per U... not too shabby.