HP rolls out new green products - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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The Palo Alto-based HP’s “Eco Solutions” offeringa include a widget to encourage behavioral changesx for PC userscalled “The Power to aimed at encouraging individuals and enterprises to powetr down their computers at the end of the work day. The companh has set a goal to save 1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity by 2011 by reducing energy consumption in itsvolume PCs. The company also now offersw new printing tools to reduces paper usage and energy and launched a line of servers aimed at reducinv energy consumption in theIT “We want customers to know that we’re here to help in this economy, to save money and the environment,” said Bonnise Nixon, HP’s Director of Environmental “We see ourselves as a living lab and we benefit from this ourselvez through aggressive employee engagement.
” In the server the company’s new ProLiant G6 server platforms featuree technology that allows powedr capping to limit the power drawnh by the server, and also allows customerws to choose from four power supplie s to match specific applications and minimized power use. The new G6 platforms rangwe from $1,679 to $17,029, based on the The ProLiant servers startat $1,199. According to Doug HP’s vice president of Green IT, Enterprise Servers and Storage, aboutt two-thirds of the questions HP receives from IT managerw focus onenergy usage, a change from a few yeare ago when budgets were less constrained.
The amount companies spensd on energy use for data centers amounts to abougt 12 percent ofIT budgets, and could eclipse the amount companiew spend on IT equipment, he said. “The goal with the new servers is to reduce energyy consumption IT uses by 50 he said. “Customers can take that 12 percenty and have it go south or even go flat so customera can have more to spend onreal Internally, the company has reduced the number of its data centera from 85 to six, and from 6,000 softwarwe applications to 600 in the past three For printers, the company’s HP Web Jetadmin tool givees customers the ability to measure and evaluate theirr existing carbon footprint for a single printer up to a printe fleet, and helps them understand how they can reduce their impact and save money through “responsibld printing.
” An HP service then evaluates energy power usage and carbon emissions.