Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) shared this peek at 3 of its own data centers and four customer data centers that break the mold.
Shown here, HP's next generation Wynyard data center, located in northeast England, uses a progressive free-air cooling technology and an energy-efficient and sustainable design that incorporates recycled materials and harvested rainwater.
The facility is designed to operate without chillers for 98 percent of the year, and achieves an average annual PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness ) rating of less than 1.2.
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Data centers gobble up energy and generate heat, but here are some data centers that try to do it with their own flair.
Cisco and HP recently had separate but simultaneous rollouts of branch office products designed to accelerate application delivery and performance from the data center to the remote site.
Data centers are filled with power-hungry racks of storage and servers, but many products and services are capable of reducing the power usage of existing IT equipment. The five tools highlighted here will help data centers stop wasting energy.
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