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The Palo Alto-based HP’sz “Eco Solutions” offerings included a widget to encourags behavioral changes for PC userscalleds “The Power to Change,” aimed at encouraginf individuals and enterprises to powe r down their computers at the end of the work day. The companh has set a goal to save 1 billionh kilowatt hours of electricity by 2011 by reducing energ consumption in itsvolume PCs.
The company also now offerz new printing tools to reduce pape usage andenergy consumption, and launched a line of serverxs aimed at reducing energy consumption in the IT “We want customers to know that we’res here to help them, in this to save money and the said Bonnie Nixon, HP’s Director of Environmental “We see ourselves as a livingh lab and we benefit from this ourselve through aggressive employee engagement.
” In the server space, the company’zs new ProLiant G6 server platforms feature technology that allows power cappinh to limit the power drawn by the server, and also allows customerds to choose from four power suppliex to match specific applications and minimize power use. The new G6 platformas range from $1,679 to $17,029, based on the The ProLiant servers starat $1,199. According to Doug HP’s vice president of Green IT, Enterprisr Servers and Storage, about two-thirds of the questions HP receives from IT managersw focus onenergy usage, a change from a few years ago when budgetw were less constrained.
The amounf companies spend on energy use for data centers amountas to about 12 percent ofIT budgets, and could eclipsre the amount companies spend on IT he said. “The goal with the new servers is to reducd energy consumption IT uses by 50 he said. “Customers can take that 12 percent and have it go southb or even go flat so customers can have more to spenr onreal projects.” Internally, the company has reduced the number of its data centerse from 85 to six, and from 6,000o software applications to 600 in the past threed years.
For printers, the company’s HP Web Jetadminh tool gives customers the ability to measure and evaluate their existing carbon footprint for a single printetr up to a printer and helps them understand how they can reducse their impact and save moneythrougj “responsible printing.” An HP service then evaluates energy power usage and carbon