(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hewlett-Packard (www.hp.com) announced on Wednesday it has repackaged its data center cooling management solution as the HP Data Center Environmental Edge (www.hp.com/go/edge).
Environmental Edge acts like a scaled-down version of cooling management solution Dynamic Smart Cooling, which HP first began selling in 2007.
The solution is designed to manage a data center’s air conditioning systems in relation to the servers’ temperatures changes.
The new solution will increase the visibility of customers’ data centers by using small sensors to offer 24-hour monitoring of power and cooling distribution, helping customers to reduce inefficiencies and energy consumption, and increase data center capacity.
The sensors then take these results and sends them back to HP’s Environmental Observer visualization software.
With the new solution, Dynamic Smart Cooling introduces an initial airflow analysis using computational fluid dynamics modeling.
It also lets the user automatically turn AC systems on or off as temperatures increase or decrease.
HP Data Center Environmental Edge is a key component of the new HP Extreme Scale-Out portfolio, which the company also announced on Wednesday.
The ExSO portfolio helps businesses that involve Web 2.0, cloud and high-performance computing to accelerate business growth, reduce cost and save time though an optimized portfolio of data center solutions, services and support.
The new tools also help customers to lower total data center energy usage by up to 18 percent, which can total up to $2.4 million a year in energy savings.
Customers will also be able to save up to 30 percent of cooling capacity, which will allow them to deploy more IT in existing data center space.
This gives customers the opportunity to reinvest these unused funds to extend their data center lifespan and drive business growth.
HP said it will begin offering its Environmental Edge beginning June 15, with prices starting at about $8 to 10 per square foot for a 5,000 square foot data center.
In November, HP’s Green Business Technology announced a new initiative where it would add power-capping server technologies and energy-efficiency services to its Thermal Logic portfolio to reduce operating costs and extend the life of data centers.
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