Power and cooling accounts for around 60 to 80 percent of data center costs, so these two issues are an it makes sense that those very issues make Roderick Strand, HP’s head of hosting and cloud global business development, at least a little hot under the collar.
In his Tuesday presentation, “Taking a holistic approach to power and cooling issue” at Parallels Summit 2010, Strand explained how HP is working to help companies run their infrastructure not harder, but smarter.
“It starts at a chip level, but you need to look… holistically across the entire data center,” he says.
HP helps companies manange their environement by, first of all, starting with efficient systems. Not only do they run efficiently, but HP’s blade systems have dynamic power capping capabilities with embedded hardware-based power capping.
A great example of HP’s commitment to efficiency is in its Proliant SL product, which fits two independent servers into a 2U chassis. “It’s a cross between a blade system and a rack system,” Strand says of the chassis, which uses shared cooling for hightened efficiency. He said it’s the most power efficient system HP has today.
With the reality being that many customers are overcooling their systems, Strand notes that HP also offers modular cooling, which focuses on cooling infrastructure areas that are hot, rather than chilling an entire room to below-optimal temperatures. What data managers get when they use this solution is a number of wireless sensors that take temperature, humidity, and air pressure readings, and software sends that data to a single pane of glass that shows the data visually.
On a more granular level, HP’s Thermal Logic technology provides realtime monitoring of hardware conditions, enabling enclosures to operate at optimum efficiency.
It all comes down to “maximizing performance per watt,” Strand says, which HP seems to be leading the industry in, dominating SPECpower with ProLiant SL2x170z G6. From an environmental standpoint, however,
There is, however, a healthy rivalry, which drives enery efficiency innovations that not only benefit businesses in terms of operating costs, but they also help reduce the toll on the planet — so this is an efficiency in which everyone benefits.
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