November 29, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REIVEW) -- IT equipment builder HP (hp.com) announced on Wednesday it has launched a new energy management system and key initiatives to help customers significantly reduce data center operating costs. Based on work conducted the past four years by HP Labs, the new energy management system, entitled HP Dynamic Smart Cooling, is designed to deliver 20 to 45 percent savings in cooling energy costs or enables additional equipment to be added to the data center while keeping net power costs constant.
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Dynamic Smart Cooling uses advanced software within an intelligent control node to continuously regulate air conditioning settings based on real-time air-temperature measurements from a network of sensors deployed on IT racks. The cooling system actively manages the environment to deliver cooling to the needed areas, helping operators save money.
"By bringing facilities and IT together, HP customers can now change energy from a fixed cost to a variable cost within the data center," says Paul Perez, VP of storage, networks and infrastructure for HP's enterprise servers and storage division. "HP's holistic approach breaks tradition to solve the conflict between energy efficiency and IT scalability. Customers can now treat data centers as systems to be as carefully managed as the hardware running within them."
The HP system will be adopted by the company's own IT organization for its six new consolidated data centers in three geographic zones in the United States. HP is also developing a new partner program where the company will work with architecture, engineering, equipment, technology, utility, real estate and service companies to accelerate adoption of energy efficiency solutions for data centers.
