Compact, Shipped-to-order DCs
HP has announced a container-based circle6 Supporting a wide variety of HP and circle6 Providing HP POD Infrastructure
data center offering that enables third-party technology, providing Services, including assessment,
customers around the globe to rapidly customers with more freedom to preparation and deployment
expand their data center capacity in match their technology services, as well as data center
support of their IT and business environments. design and planning through EYP
growth. circle6 Providing customers with more Mission Critical Facilities, a
density than competitive offerings by company of HP.
Keeping pace with the demands of supporting more than 3,500
technology growth in the data center compute nodes, or 12,000 Large “With HP PODs, customers have more
and rising energy costs is a constant Form Factor hard drives, in a 12-foot flexibility to balance their capital
challenge as companies seek to deploy shipping container. expenditures and operating expenses
the latest technologies. The extended circle6 Delivering the equivalent of 371 plus while quickly and seamlessly meeting
time and significant costs required to square meters of typical data center their needs for additional capacity,”
update or expand data centers make capacity that ships within six weeks said Christine Martino, vice president
these challenges even more complex. of the customer’s order. and general manager, Scalable
As the first offering of its kind circle6 Offering flexible configurations Computing and Infrastructure
designed specifically to provide a wide optimized for power or density, Organization, HP. “HP’s innovative POD
range of industry-standard technology, which enables customers to quickly approach allows customers to deploy
the HP Performance Optimized Data upgrade or extend the capacity of world-class, scalable, highly power-
Center (HP POD) addresses these their physical infrastructures to efficient data center resources quickly
challenges by: meet their specific business needs. and ships in just six weeks.”
Cisco aims to reduce greenhouse gases
Cisco has set a goal of reducing “Every corporation has a responsibility centres, which account for a
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from to help address climate change and to significant percentage of Cisco’s
its worldwide operations by 25 percent minimize the impact of its operations energy use, the company will deploy a
over the next four years, reaching its on the environment,” Chambers said. variety of techniques. These include
goal in absolute terms by 2012. The “Cisco is approaching this challenge taking detailed measurements of
company will deploy a multi-prong not only by curbing our own company’s energy flows, utilizing more efficient
approach focused on the power of greenhouse gas emissions but also by lab equipment, using the “virtual
technology to meet its objectives and taking advantage of the power of network” to store data, adding smart
to demonstrate how customers can do networking technology to better power-distribution units that
the same. manage our environmental concerns. automatically shut down machines not
By deploying innovative information in use, and upgrading building
Cisco® Chairman and Chief Executive technology solutions and using the mechanical and electrical systems.
Officer John Chambers outlined the network as a platform for 21st-century Cisco will also increase its use of
plan at Cisco Live!, the company’s environmental management, we collaboration technologies such as
annual information technology (IT) and believe we can significantly alter our Cisco TelePresence and the Cisco
communications conference. In his greenhouse gas footprint and help our WebEx suite of tools to reduce the
keynote speech, Chambers discussed customers meet their sustainability need for business travel, which
the transformative effect that IT can goals.” accounts for 27 percent of Cisco’s GHG
have on the world’s environmental footprint. As part of its commitment to
challenges and demonstrated Cisco’s In his speech, Chambers outlined the Clinton Global Initiative, Cisco has
commitment to sustainability in its Cisco’s approach for achieving a 25 already decreased emissions from air
operations, culture, products and percent absolute reduction in GHG travel by at least 10 percent per
customer solutions. emissions by 2012. In its labs and data employee.
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