HP launches new technologies for enhanced data center reliability

HP has unveiled new power management and cooling technology developments that the company claims can slash data center energy bills while increasing system reliability.

Designed to support HP's broad portfolio of enterprise servers and storage systems, the new technologies include:

* A modular cooling system that uses chilled water to triple the standard cooling capacity of a single server rack;

* A universal rack that standardizes efficiencies across all HP server and storage platforms; and

* A power distribution unit management module that monitors data center environments to provide customers with a more reliable power infrastructure.

HP's new solutions can deliver significant cost savings by dramatically reducing energy use and increasing data center utilization. At the same time, the technologies help prepare customers for future generations of increasingly powerful, and energy thirsty, IT systems.

"HP's power and cooling technologies are helping customers win the war on heat," said Paul Perez, vice president, storage, networking and infrastructure, Industry Standard Servers, HP. "In combination with HP's best practices to optimize data center operations, these solutions offer customers high-density IT resources that improve overall cost, performance and reliability."

HP's power and cooling technologies support the HP ProLiant, BladeSystem, Integrity, Integrity NonStop and HP 9000 server families as well as HP StorageWorks MSA, EVA and XP arrays.

More information at http://www.hp.com/go/infrastructure

•Date: 31st Jan 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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