July 6, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Live Earth, the 24-hour, 7-continent concert series occurring on July 7, 2007 to combat climate change, has chosen AISO.Net (http://www.aiso.net) to provide environmentally friendly web hosting for Live Earth’s website, it was announced recently. AISO.Net claim to be the “world's first and only solar-powered hosting company” and has custom designed a dedicated solution to power Live Earth's site “using energy efficient IBM BladeCenter servers with Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors”.
Live Earth will stage concerts in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg, and feature The Police, Genesis, Bon Jovi, Madonna, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Black Eyed Peas, and Jack Johnson.
"AISO is proud to support Live Earth, a groundbreaking event to support a vital cause. We are doing everything we can do to be totally responsible and be the industry leader in environmental web hosting," explained AISO.Net’s Technology Manager, Mr. Phil Nail. "We are very excited about Live Earth choosing AISO to host their website, showing the world that AISO.Net truly cares about our environment."
"AISO.Net chose IBM and AMD over the other major vendors because of success with IBM's hardware, the open and highly available design of BladeCenter and excellent customer service," added Mr. Nail. "We can run the Live Earth website on IBM BladeCenter and get great performance without having the power draw we would have had with rack servers."
To support Live Earth goal AISO.Net is making “additional green enhancements” to its data center. This includes recycled carpeting, replacing fluorescent light bulbs with LED lighting, repainting the building using only environmentally safe paint and “installing an underground grey water tank that will provide for outdoor landscaping”.
"Our technology partnership with IBM and collaboration with customers like AISO.Net is helping AMD honor our commitment to lead the world to energy-efficient processing," explained AMD’s Senior Strategist, Mr. Larry Vertal. "The industry-leading performance-per-watt capabilities of the AMD Opteron processor running the energy-efficient IBM BladeCenter servers will help enable AISO.Net to efficiently power Live Earth's Web site while minimizing their own power and cooling requirements."
