HP Makes Big Additions to Eco Solutions Program

greenercomputing.com (Jun 2 2009) Servers

1. At a meeting here today, Hewlett Packard executives unveiled several new additions to its Eco Solutions green IT program, including a new line of servers, printing hardware and software solutions, an upcoming "telepresence-lite" program and new company-wide environmental commitments. HP's Bonnie Nixon kicked off the announcements by highlighting how far the company has already come in improving the environmental performance of its products: Since 2005, she said, the company's desktop PCs have improved 40 percent in energy efficiency, and HP aims for another 40 percent improvement by 2011. That 40 percent goal -- which equals 1 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity savings, or enough to power a town of 90,000 people for a year, according to HP's Steve Hoffman -- will be achieved through a number of elements of HP's work, including designing energy-efficient hardware, expanding green data center practices, consumer behavior change, and enabling enterprise customers to ... (Read Full Article)

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