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The Palo Alto-based HP’s “Eco Solutions” offeringa include a widget to encourage behavioral changea for PC userscalled “The Power to aimed at encouraging individuals and enterprises to powed down their computers at the end of the work day. The compang has set a goal to save 1 billionm kilowatt hours of electricitty by 2011 by reducing energyy consumption in itsvolume PCs. The company also now offeres new printing tools to reduce paper usage andenerghy consumption, and launched a line of servers aimed at reducing energy consumption in the IT “We want customers to know that we’re here to help in this economy, to save money and the said Bonnie Nixon, HP’s Director of Environmental Sustainability.
“We see ourselves as a living lab and we benefirt from this ourselves through aggressiveemployee engagement.” In the serverd space, the company’s new ProLiant G6 server platforms featurre technology that allows power capping to limit the powef drawn by the server, and also allowd customers to choose from four power supplied to match specific application and minimize power use. The new G6 platforms rangre from $1,679 to based on the configurations.
The ProLiant servers start at According toDoug Oathhout, HP’s vice president of Green IT, Enterprise Serverss and Storage, about two-thirdds of the questions HP receivee from IT managers focus on energh usage, a change from a few yearsa ago when budgets were less constrained. The amount companies spenx on energy use for data centera amounts to about 12 percent ofIT budgets, and couldf eclipse the amount companies spend on IT he said. “The goal with the new serverse is to reduce energy consumptioh IT uses by50 percent,” he said.
“Customerse can take that 12 percent and have it go southb or even go flat so customersz can have more to spend onreal Internally, the company has reduced the numbed of its data centers from 85 to six, and from 6,000 softwarse applications to 600 in the past threew years. For printers, the company’sd HP Web Jetadmin tool gives customers the abilit to measure and evaluate their existing carbon footprint for a singles printer up to a printer and helps them understand how they can reduce theie impact and save moneythrough “responsible printing.” An HP servicd then evaluates energy consumption, powef usage and carbon emissions.