Hewlett Packard's Data Center Smart Grid: Two Trends in One Name

seekingalpha.com (Nov 9 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

1. Hewlett Packard (HPQ) has connected the dots between the trendy term "smart grid" and its work to make data centers more efficient. Witness the HP Data Center Smart Grid line of products and services. Essentially, HP has integrated power and temperature sensors with displays and controls to help data center operators track and manage those variables. It's all part of the race to integrate all the disparate data center efficiency systems, from more efficient cooling systems and less power-hungry servers to new sensor and control networks. The competition includes giants like IBM, BMC and CA as well as startups like SynapSense, Arch Rock, Sentilla, Power Assure and others (see Data Center Efficiency: Pulling it All Together and The Race for the Data Center's Brain). (Read Full Article)

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