HP Labs continues the innovation in the data center

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HP’s research arm HP Labs has announced new sustainability research initiatives the company says will include an industry-first to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers by 75 percent; research to replace copper wiring in servers with laser light beams; and tools for measuring and managing the amount of energy used to develop products.

An average data center that consumes 5MW of electricity annually could power more than 4,300 homes in the United States for a year, the company says.

Check out this article talking about how HP has established a series of initiatives within the data center space, do check it out. The more we talk about the issues experienced, what process and technologies we’ve used to resolve them, the more we can reduce the operations costs, whilst delivering benefit or revenue for the end user. Whether we’re talking about energy efficient power supplies, decommissioning legacy systems or reducing the cooling within the data center, it’s big and small changes together that deliver benefit, and often those small changes made on a big scale that can have the greatest impact on your data center operation costs. Removing the redundant power supplies on the non-production servers, increasing the temperature of the data center from 20 degrees Celcius to 23 can significantly reduce your power and cooling costs without necessarily impacting system reliability - though this is something that you’d need to discuss with your support service provider/vendor.