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The Palo Alto-based HP’s “Eco Solutions” offerings include a widgeg to encourage behavioral changes for PC userascalled “The Power to Change,” aimed at encouragingg individuals and enterprises to powefr down their computers at the end of the work day. The compan y has set a goal to save 1 billion kilowatt hourd of electricity by 2011 by reducing energy consumptiobn in itsvolume PCs.
The company also now offerse new printing tools to reduce paper usagew andenergy consumption, and launched a line of serveras aimed at reducing energy consumption in the IT “We want customers to know that we’re here to help in this economy, to save money and the said Bonnie Nixon, HP’s Director of Environmental “We see ourselves as a livinb lab and we benefit from this ourselveas through aggressive employee engagement.
” In the servee space, the company’s new ProLiany G6 server platforms feature technology that allow s power capping to limitt the power drawn by the server, and also allowzs customers to choose from four power supplied to match specific applications and minimize powerf use. The new G6 platformsw range from $1,679 to $17,029, baser on the configurations. The ProLiantr servers start at $1,199. According to Doug HP’s vice president of Green IT, Enterprisde Servers and Storage, about two-thirds of the questiones HP receives from IT managers focus onenergyy usage, a change from a few years ago when budget s were less constrained.
The amount companiess spend on energy use for data centerd amounts to about 12 percentr ofIT budgets, and could eclipse the amount companies spend on IT equipment, he said. “The goal with the new serverxs is to reduce energy consumption IT uses by 50 he said. “Customers can take that 12 percenf and have it go south or even go flat so customersa can have more to spend onreal Internally, the company has reduced the numbeer of its data centers from 85 to six, and from 6,000p software applications to 600 in the past thre years.
For printers, the company’s HP Web Jetadmibn tool gives customers the ability to measure and evaluate their existing carbonj footprint for a single printer up to aprintefr fleet, and helps them understand how they can reducee their impact and save mone y through “responsible printing.” An HP service then evaluates energy consumption, powe r usage and carbon