HP launches energy efficiency program

BANGAORE, INDIA: HP on Wednesday announced the launch of a new industry program comprising a new server development platform, customer discovery lab and partner ecosystem to help customers reduce complexity, energy use and costs.

The program 'Project Moonshot' combines with HP Converged Infrastructure technology to allow the sharing of resources — including storage, networking, management, power and cooling — across thousands of servers.

The company claimed that the program paves the way to the future of low-energy computing for emerging web, cloud and massive scale environments.

'Project Moonshot' is designed to fuel the advancement of low-energy server technology, while promoting industry collaboration to break new ground in 'hyperscale' computing environments such as cloud services and on-demand computing, the company said.

Through these efforts, data center efficiencies are expected to reach new heights for select workloads and applications, consuming up to 89 per cent less energy and 94 per cent less space, while reducing overall costs up to 63 percent compared to traditional server systems.

For companies with thousands of servers delivering web services, social media and simple content delivery applications, 'Project Moonshot' is designed to deliver improved simplicity while achieving energy and cost savings never before possible.

“Companies with hyperscale environments are facing a crisis in capacity that requires a fundamental change at the architectural level,” said, K Vikram, director, Industry Standard Servers, HP India. “HP has a strong track record of leading market transitions that enable our clients to stay ahead of the technology curve, maximize their ability to innovate and speed their time to market of new services while reducing costs and energy use.”

Reinventing the traditional approach to data center infrastructure by using Converged Infrastructure as its foundation, 'Project Moonshot' unlocks the promise of emerging extreme low-energy servers by pooling resources in a highly federated environment to radically reduce space requirements, management complexity and energy consumption.