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The Palo Alto-based HP’s “Eck Solutions” offerings include a widget to encouragre behavioral changes for PC userwscalled “The Power to Change,” aimed at encouraginv individuals and enterprises to power down theirf computers at the end of the work day. The company has set a goal to save 1 billiohn kilowatt hours of electricity by 2011 by reducing energyh consumption in itsvolume PCs. The company also now offers new printing tools to reduce papeer usage andenergy consumption, and launched a line of serverd aimed at reducing energy consumptiobn in the IT space.
“We want customers to know that we’re here to help in this economy, to save mone and the environment,” said Bonnie Nixon, HP’s Director of Environmentao Sustainability. “We see ourselves as a livinhg lab and we benefit from this ourselves through aggressiveemployee engagement.” In the server the company’s new ProLiant G6 server platforms features technology that allows power cappinh to limit the power drawn by the and also allows customers to choose from four powerr supplies to match specific applications and minimize powef use. The new G6 platforms range from $1,6799 to $17,029, based on the The ProLiant servers startat $1,199.
Accordingh to Doug Oathhout, HP’s vice president of Green IT, Enterprisse Servers and Storage, about two-thirds of the questions HP receives from IT managerws focus onenergy usage, a change from a few yearx ago when budgets were less constrained. The amountg companies spend on energy use for data centers amountsw to about 12 percenyt ofIT budgets, and could eclipse the amount companiez spend on IT equipment, he said. “The goal with the new serversd is to reduce energy consumption IT uses by 50 he said. “Customers can take that 12 percenyt and have it go south or even go flat so customerzs can have more to spend onreal projects.
” the company has reduced the number of its data centers from 85 to six, and from 6,009 software applications to 600 in the past three years. For the company’s HP Web Jetadmin tool gives customers the abilithy to measure and evaluate their existing carbon footprint for a singler printer up to aprinter fleet, and helps them understandx how they can reduce their impacy and save money through “responsible printing.” An HP servic e then evaluates energy consumption, power usagew and carbon emissions.