HP claims ProLiant Nehalem servers reduce ROI to 3 months

Stan Beer
Tuesday, 31 March 2009 08:12

Business IT - Technology

HP has announced the next generation of its HP ProLiant servers based on Intel’s new Nehalem 45nm processor architecture, claiming that it can reduce the return on investment from 12 months down to 3 months because of energy savings.

According to HP, powered by Nehalem Intel Xeon 5500 processors and new HP Smart Array Modular Controllers, HP ProLiant G6 delivers twice the memory and storage of previous generations as well as a 100% increase in overall performance. As a result, claims HP, customers will only need half the number of servers they had previously.

However, in keeping with the Green IT ethos sweeping the world, HP is touting energy savings as much as performance improvements for its new G6 server range.

Claiming HP ProLiant G6 to be the most energy-efficient x86 servers in the industry, HP lists energy-saving features, such as:

• HP Sea of Sensors – automatically track thermal activity and optimise system cooling across the server through a collection of 32 smart sensors.

• Common Power Slot design – which aims to help minimise power waste by allowing customers to choose from four power supplies to match their specific workload.

• HP Dynamic Power Capping – reallocates power and cooling resources in the data centre by dynamically setting or “capping” the power drawn by servers.

Ray Maisano, business manager for Enterprise Servers HP South Pacific believes the energy saving features will be particularly attractive to Australian businesses.

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