Isra-Mart srl : HP to lower carbon footprint emissions by half

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Hewlett Packard Monday introduced a newly designed data center that significantly decreases the emissions of carbon footprint by half.

The patent-pending HP Flexible Data Center (HP Flexible DC) offers a standardized, modular approach to designing and building data centres that allows clients to replace traditional data centre designs with a flexible solution that can be expanded as needed while conserving resources.

Backed up with HP Critical Facilities Services - which provides consulting, and design engineering and architecture services, HP will collaborate with clients to evaluate their needs and to help with the planning and implementation of all aspects of their data centre infrastructures.

According to Mr. Ken Mbwaya, Managing Director, East Africa, clients such as financial service providers, government entities, and cloud and collocation hosts, will find the scalable and modular nature of HP Flexible DC a compelling option.

Mr. Mbwaya said the pressure to save on capital and operating expenditures is one of the most critical issues facing enterprises today and when building new data centres, clients need to consider options that support business growth, while also saving time and costs:

"Financial institutions create an enormous volume of data, which means they need to be able to quickly add capacity to their data center without disrupting business. HP Flexible DC is a promising new approach to the way organisations can meet computing demands efficiently while addressing capital-intensive data centre costs."

HP Flexible DC is based on a "butterfly" design featuring four prefabricated quadrants, or modules, that stem off a central administrative section.

The offering uses industrial components to improve cost efficiencies as well as a streamlined building process with a variety of options for power and cooling distribution.

The modular design also extends clients' ability to increase scalable capacity while retaining specified levels of reliability and redundancy while specific configurations also optimise the use of power and cooling resources to lower energy and water use, enabling clients to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and a facility's carbon footprint.

"Besides, the abovementioned benefits, the newly designed HP data center is air-cooled, rather than water-cooled, mechanical systems save clients power and potentially millions of gallons of water annually," said Mr. Ken Mbwaya.