Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : green IT

Time to connect datacenter IT with facilities and unleash their trapped energy capacity

C Purcell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:55:00 GMT

Written by Doug Oathout , VP of Green IT Enterprise Storage and Servers IT organizations have been building infrastructure in silos for twenty years; the network administrator builds the interconnects, the storage administrator makes sure the data is...(read more)

Applications Matter - What Affects Server Power Consumption: Part 2

Tony Harvey — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:21:00 GMT

How does the application you are using and what it is doing affect the power consumption of system. The first thing that everyone looks at when talking about power consumption is CPU utilization. Unfortunately CPU utilization is not a good proxy for power...(read more)

Thermal Logic – The coolest ideas for your hottest problems

Gary Thome — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:46:00 GMT

Today we are announcing some significant Thermal Logic innovations. I'm sure if you're reading this first, you are thinking "wait, here comes another vendor claim that they are most energy efficient!" I'd hate to disappoint you, but we do believe that addressing power and cooling challenges is much more than just a server that takes less power. Okay we do have a new energy efficient blade server. In fact we have a portfolio of energy efficient blades servers. But wait, there is more! Really! ...(read more)

Green servers and ham

newtonja — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:21:00 GMT

I didn't know what I would eat for breakfast today, so thanks to Larry Dignan for the V8 slap up against the head this morning. After watching his video blog, "green servers and ham" doesn't sound so good anymore.

We know a lot of businesses wrestle with mandates to be "green". But at the same time many more are struggling to find any way to lower energy costs and to eek out more capacity from their facilities.

We agree with Larry that energy efficiency should not be an exercise in marketing. It's a serious business concern with a real-world engineering answer. That’s why we build Thermal Logic technology into every HP blade server to save power and cooling. That means energy efficient design married with energy efficient control - across the board. No special models, no “plant a tree” promotions, just common sense energy design + control with savings that you see on your electric bill every month and in the long life of your data center.

You decide if you want to take it to the bank or plant a tree with it.

Jason