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HP Announces Blade Server Study

Study reportedly shows that HP BladeSystem uses less energy than competing offerings.

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By DE Editors  

March 1, 2007

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HP (Palo Alto, CA) released benchmark results that the company saysshows that the HP BladeSystem c-Class blade server uses up to 27percent less power than an IBM BladeCenter-H in similar configurationdesigned to reflect real-world blade server environments.

According to HP, the results come from a weeklong study conducted bySine Nomine Associates (Ashburn, VA), a research and developmentcompany that describes itself "as a vendor-neutral consultancy." SineNomine Associates examined the overall power consumption and externalairflow requirements of a variety of blade server and 1U rack serverconfigurations in a typical data center environment experiencing lightto heavy use.

According to HP, the results demonstrate that the HP BladeSystemc-Class and its zoned cooling properties lower power usage throughefficient power distribution and optimized airflow. The benchmark studyalso shows that the HP BladeSystem c-Class requires 60 percent lessairflow than the IBM BladeCenter-H.

The full version of the Sine Nomine study is available as a small (256KB/ 32-page) PDF from HP.  For more information on HP's cooling and power technologies, click here.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.

 

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