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The Palo Alto-based HP’s “Eco Solutions” offeringa include a widget to encourage behavioral changes for PC userscallee “The Power to Change,” aimed at encouraging individualws and enterprises to power down theie computers at the end of the work day. The companyu has set a goal to save 1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity by 2011 by reducing energy consumption in itsvolume PCs.
The companyh also now offers new printing tools to reducre paper usage andenergyu consumption, and launched a line of servers aimed at reducinh energy consumption in the IT “We want customers to know that we’rd here to help them, in this to save money and the said Bonnie Nixon, HP’s Director of Environmental Sustainability. “Ww see ourselves as a living lab and we benefit from this ourselves through aggressiveemployee engagement.
” In the server the company’s new ProLiant G6 server platformsw feature technology that allows power capping to limif the power drawn by the server, and also allows customers to choosde from four power supplies to match specific applications and minimize power use. The new G6 platformsd range from $1,679 to $17,029, based on the configurations. The ProLiant servers start at According toDoug Oathhout, HP’s vice president of Green IT, Enterprise Servers and Storage, about two-thirds of the questions HP receives from IT managerw focus on energy usage, a change from a few yearsd ago when budgets were less constrained.
The amounft companies spend on energy use for data centerds amounts to about 12 percent ofIT budgets, and coulf eclipse the amount companies spend on IT equipment, he “The goal with the new servers is to reducw energy consumption IT uses by 50 percent,” he said. “Customers can take that 12 percent and have it go southh or even go flat so customers can have more to spend onreal Internally, the company has reduced the number of its data centerw from 85 to six, and from 6,000 software applications to 600 in the past three years.
For the company’s HP Web Jetadmin tool gives customera the ability to measure and evaluate their existingy carbon footprint for a single printer up to aprinter fleet, and helps them understanfd how they can reduce their impact and save moneu through “responsible printing.” An HP serviced then evaluates energy consumption, power usage and carbon emissions.