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The company said the move was prompted by traditional data center strategies which see customers invest millions in capital expenditures to create a redundant power infrastructure that maximizes uptime. Additionally, to ensure power availability, IT administrators overprovision server energy.
HP Dynamic Power Capping helps customers reallocate power and cooling resources in the data center by dynamically setting or "capping the power drawn by the servers. This eliminates the need for overprovisioning by precisely identifying how much power is actually required to run each server and setting a limit based on that usage. As a result, companies reclaim their overprovisioned energy to improve the capacity of their data center. To expand the data center, companies can increase the number of servers threefold, using the same power allocation and infrastructure. This allows them to recover up to $16 million in capital expenditures for a 1-megawatt data center. At the same time, it can also reduce ongoing energy consumption by up to 25 percent and save nearly $300,000 a year.
"With these new solutions from HP, customers are able to drive down data center costs by reducing energy consumption and, at the same time, minimize environmental impact, said Peter Gross, chief executive officer, EYP Mission Critical Facilities, an HP company. "HP's Green Business Technology initiative is built on decades of innovation and experience in data center design and deployment, resulting in solutions that empower CIOs to turn energy efficiency into business benefits that impact the bottom line.
Better use of power and cooling resources HP Thermal Logic is a set of technologies embedded in HP products and services to deliver a more efficient data center. It combines measurement and control of power and cooling resources with industry-leading, energy-efficient product and solution design. HP Dynamic Power Capping, part of the HP Thermal Logic portfolio, is the industry's first solution to offer a threefold increase in data center capacity. This is accomplished with hardware-based control of system power, which places a limit on, or "caps, the power that is used by the equipment without compromising performance. Additionally, HP Insight Control Environment software provides accurate measurement of power consumption, allowing administrators to gain insight into actual power and cooling usage via thermal dashboards.
The company said the move was prompted by traditional data center strategies which see customers invest millions in capital expenditures to create a redundant power infrastructure that maximizes uptime. Additionally, to ensure power availability, IT administrators overprovision server energy.
HP Dynamic Power Capping helps customers reallocate power and cooling resources in the data center by dynamically setting or "capping the power drawn by the servers. This eliminates the need for overprovisioning by precisely identifying how much power is actually required to run each server and setting a limit based on that usage. As a result, companies reclaim their overprovisioned energy to improve the capacity of their data center. To expand the data center, companies can increase the number of servers threefold, using the same power allocation and infrastructure. This allows them to recover up to $16 million in capital expenditures for a 1-megawatt data center. At the same time, it can also reduce ongoing energy consumption by up to 25 percent and save nearly $300,000 a year.
"With these new solutions from HP, customers are able to drive down data center costs by reducing energy consumption and, at the same time, minimize environmental impact, said Peter Gross, chief executive officer, EYP Mission Critical Facilities, an HP company. "HP's Green Business Technology initiative is built on decades of innovation and experience in data center design and deployment, resulting in solutions that empower CIOs to turn energy efficiency into business benefits that impact the bottom line.
Better use of power and cooling resources HP Thermal Logic is a set of technologies embedded in HP products and services to deliver a more efficient data center. It combines measurement and control of power and cooling resources with industry-leading, energy-efficient product and solution design. HP Dynamic Power Capping, part of the HP Thermal Logic portfolio, is the industry's first solution to offer a threefold increase in data center capacity. This is accomplished with hardware-based control of system power, which places a limit on, or "caps, the power that is used by the equipment without compromising performance. Additionally, HP Insight Control Environment software provides accurate measurement of power consumption, allowing administrators to gain insight into actual power and cooling usage via thermal dashboards.