HP Has First Energy Star Servers

Data Center Knowledge (Jun 4 2009) Emissions , Servers

1. HP has become the first company to have its servers earn the Energy Star Seal. The EPA launched the Energy Star for Enterprise Servers program on May 15 after two years of development. The program just published its first list of servers that qualified for Energy star as of June 1, which features four HP Proliant servers, including the DL360 G6 1U model and three configurations of the 2U DL360 G6. The Energy Star effort hopes to offer buyers an independent “apples to apples” method for comparing the energy efficiency of servers from major vendor. For companies with large server farms, energy efficiency improvements at the server level can add up to large gains across a data center, as noted this week by Ken Brill of The Uptime Institue in his column for Forbes. Brill noted the impact of saving 50 watts in energy consumtpion per server. “Fifty watts may ... (Read Full Article)

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