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Halo Virtual collaboration System (VCS) — bringing people together without travel |
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HP's Halo Virtual collaboration System is a network of precisely designed rooms that allows business colleagues to meet from the other side of the world, as if they were together in the same room. The Halo studio—designed by DreamWorks Animation in partnership with HP—provides life-size, real-time, eye-to-eye conferencing with outstanding audio and no delay.
Connecting organizations in a way that's never been possible before, the Halo studio brings people together frequently and spontaneously to collaborate in the most natural way. Halo allows for interactivity between teams and enhances business productivity by fostering social connections that help drive quick and effective decision-making, while reducing the need for travel.
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Dynamic Smart Cooling — Keeping IT cool in the data center |
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As the number of servers around throughout the AJP region that need to be kept cool has grown, so to have the costs of energy. Today, lowering the cost of running a data center is about getting the right power and cooling, to the right places, at the right times.
A recent study by HP and the Uptime Institute suggests that for many of the world’s data centers, 63 percent of the power is associated with cooling the IT equipment.1
The first solution of its type, Dynamic Smart Cooling delivers significant cost-savings with space and energy-efficient solutions for the data center. Leveraging HP Thermal Logic technology, Dynamic Smart Cooling enables data centers to pack servers more densely while maintaining energy costs.
Dynamic Smart Cooling combines sensors with control nodes that monitor the temperatures in parts of the data center. These nodes control the computer room air conditioners for better control of the whole IT environment, so you don’t have to cool a whole room for a few racks in one area. For example, using HP’s Dynamic Smart Cooling, HP Labs reduced the power to cool a data center by anywhere from 30 to 60 percent, depending on facility infrastructure.2
1- Christopher Malone, Ph.D, Christian Belady, P.E., "Metrics to Characterize Data Center & IT Equipment Energy Use," Digital Power Forum, Richardson, TX (September, 2006).
2- HP Labs demonstration using HP's Dynamic Smart Cooling HP labs was able to reduce the power to cool the datacenter from 45.8 kW using a standard industry set up to just 13.5 kW.
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HP's energy efficient products — conquering workloads while conserving power |
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As the number of servers around throughout the AJP region that need to be kept cool has grown, so to have the costs of energy. Today, lowering the cost of running a data center is about getting the right power and cooling, to the right places, at the right times.
HP is committed to offering products and services that help customers save money, conserve energy and improve the quality of our environment. The more energy we can save through energy efficiency, the more we reduce greenhouse gases and the risks of climate change.
HP's leadership in reducing the environmental impact of its technology products has resulted in numerous qualifications that recognize our design and technological innovations. For example:
ENERGY STAR® is a voluntary energy efficiency program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which has recently been adopted in APJ countries including Australia, Japan and Korea. Today, over 1000 models of HP office products are ENERGY STAR® qualified. Products that are ENERGY STAR® qualified use less energy, reducing your energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gas emissions by meeting strict energy efficiency guidelines (set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy).
HP ENERGY STAR qualified products produce less heat and reduce cooling loads by about 15 percent (and up to 30 percent in warmer climates), use about half as much electricity — saving half in utility costs and automatically go into "sleep" mode after periods of inactivity.
ENERGY STAR® qualified products include:
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China Energy Conservation Program (CECP) is an energy efficiency program that aims to stimulate production of more resource-efficient products.
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China State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) is a standard to promote the use of energy saving products and protect the environment during production, use and disposition.
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EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) is a procurement tool to help institutional purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on their environmental attributes.
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GREENGUARD™ is a certification for low-emission products. Most HP printers meet these standards.
Japan PC Green Label indicates that the product manufacturer and the product meet general and specific environmental product design and manufacturing, recycling and reuse criteria.
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Korea Eco-Label indicates that a product meets conservation of resources and pollution prevention criteria.
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Taiwan Green Mark is a Taiwanese eco-label program launched in August 1992 to promote recycling, pollution reduction, resource conservation and guide consumers in purchasing 'green' products.
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HP gets green with power |
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HP's commitment to energy efficiency is reflected in its day-to-day business practices. HP manages its energy impact by calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by our operations and use of electricity. Our goal is to reduce CO2 emissions by 15 percent by 2010. |
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