HP is releasing a new line of "green" storage products that, according to the company, will require half the power and cooling of its current systems.HP, which made the claims at three conferences in Las Vegas this week, has offered few details on how the massive energy saving would be achieved.
Boston-based Boston Power will provide Sonata lithium-ion batteries for some new HP laptops. And those batteries will be made in Taiwan, by GP Batteries.
In 1983 three former Texas Instruments executives launched the first IBM PC compatible computer that was the beginning of the mobile PC industry. The Compaq Portable demonstrated that mobile computers were the wave of the future.
Hewlett-Packard's move to consolidate and modernise its enterprise datacentres will bring about standardised, effective service offerings that may win over customers particularly in Asia, according to a company executive.
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The slew of value-oriented offerings is also designed to give HPs various global channel partners a new horse to ride into town on as the SMBs look beyond recession-reckoning for how to grow their operations while becoming more productive.
Keeping virtualized servers that support mission-critical applications and databases at top levels of performance 24 x 7 is a much different problem than for maintaining physical servers in traditional configurations.
Oracle is under investigation by the Feds for bribery in its West Africa business dealings. The region is a tough place to do business and poverty causes corruption just as corruption causes poverty. But the entire sector is vulnerable to the problem and along with Oracle HP and IBM also have become entangled.
As promised, I'm back this morning from the airport with a couple more thoughts about Hewlett-Packard's green tech introductions this week, specifically some notes on its latest blade server, the HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Blade.Here are the energy-related vitals on the product:- Uses 44 watts per blade less than its predecessor model, which translates into a potential savings of 704 watts in a fully loaded rack configuration.
Hewlett-Packard has set a goal of doubling its purchases of alternative energy to 8 percent by 2012, but the company has yet to put a stake in the ground regarding carbon neutrality. And, honestly, I find that rather realistic and refreshing of them.
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