(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — HP Labs (www.hpl.hp.com) announced last week it has opened a new research facility in Singapore, which will focus on developing data center architecture, cloud computing services and sustainable practices.
This is the company’s third research facility in the Asia Pacific region and seventh worldwide. The center will help advance HP Labs’ goals as well as HP’s overall business objectives.
Along with HP Labs’ Service Automation and Integration Lab in Silicon Valley and the Automated Infrastructure Lab in England, the new facility will work on Cirious, HP’s vision for creating an enterprise cloud computing platform.
The lab will focus on researching the advancement of data center design through using multiple energy sources, such as solar, biofuel, and electric grid.
More specifically, the facility will work towards lowering the total cost of ownership by 75 percent in data centers and reduce the carbon footprint by 50 percent, says HP Labs director Prith Banerjee.
“As a research organization, our goal at HP Labs is to address the most complex challenges facing our customers and society in the next decade,” says Chris Whitney, director of HP Labs Singapore. “By collaborating with our long-standing customers in the Asia Pacific region, HP Labs Singapore will help extend HP’s global strategy of accelerating the pace of technology transfer from R&D into the hands of our customers.”
Singapore is an ideal location for HP’s research and design because the market is greatly open to international trade and investment, and is a hub for many of the company’s largest customer accounts.
The country is also home to HP’s business headquarters for the Asia Pacific region.
