In addition, the company’s leasing and lifecycle asset management services subsidiary, HP Financial Services, helps customers expand or renew their IT infrastructures with the entire line of ExSO offerings through flexible leasing and financing solutions.
HP’s existing scale-out computing portfolio includes the HP ProLiant DL1000 Multi Node servers, introduced on June 2, the HP POD (Performance Optimized Datacenter), HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System and the HP ProLiant 2x220c double-density blade server introduced last year.
More information is available at www.hp.com/go/extremescaleout.
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(1) Potential savings of a 100,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art ExSO data center using HP ProLiant SL6000 family and HP Data Center Environmental Edge.
(2) Cost savings based on internal pricing comparing the HP ProLiant DL160 G6 server to the HP ProLiant SL2x170z server; power savings based on HP comparisons of traditional rack servers with SL2x170z; double density based on fitting two server nodes in the physical space of one traditional 1U node.
(3) Estimated savings based HP comparison of traditional rack servers to SL2x170z in 100,000-square-foot data center; typical home uses 11.23 megawatts per year – based on U.S. Department of Energy data ( http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/esr/table5.html).
(4) Compares maximum weight of Dell R610 and SL170z
(5) A 100,000-square-foot data center (88,000 servers) has 1,716 tons of Dell PowerEdge R610 and 878 tons of SL2x170z; a savings of 838.5 tons = 4.3 Boeing 747s (195 tons average empty weight).
(6) Compared to traditional rack servers delivering a single node in each 1U chassis.
(7) Compares 100,000-square-foot data center example (88,000 servers) of HP ProLiant SL2x170z with the Dell PowerEdge R610 with approximately $165 per node capital expenditure savings.
(8) Based on a 100,000-square foot data center, using 29 MW, at $.08 kWh electricity price, full capacity.
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