Green Initiatives in Hewlett Packard

The Hewlett Packard company (commonly referred to as HP) was an American Multinational information technology company head quartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software related services to consumers.

Green energy nothing but the energy that is from the natural resources such as wind, water, solar, etc .It is very useful and doesn’t cause any negative impact to the environment. So adapting green computing is important.

The following diagram shows the green intiatives in HP

OVERVIEW:

• Reduce costs, manage risk, and support business growth while reducing environmental impact.
• Achieve carbon reduction goals and meet your environmental compliance requirements.
• Increase energy efficiency, dematerialize processes, and better manage technology assets.

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF ASSETS:

The technology devices your employees use to communicate and run your business can be steady contributors to your corporation’s energy consumption. It is imperative to employ technology assets that drive greater efficiencies while impacting the environment less. We incorporate recycled materials in the manufacture of our products, design them to be energy-efficient during use, and make sure that the products can be easily retired—passing along significant energy savings and environmental efficiencies to you. In addition to these benefits, incorporating sustainable assets into your operations may also provide enhanced business opportunity in the near future with the emergence of new government procurement incentives and requirements.

Some examples include:

• HP ProLiant and Blade servers, which help consolidate to reduce server footprint cutting greenhouse gas emissions, materials, cost, and energy consumption. HP ProLiant G6 includes many energy-saving features, such as: HP Sea of Sensors, which automatically tracks thermal activity across the server through a collection of 32 smart sensors. The sensors dynamically adjust system components such as fans, memory, and input/output processing to optimize system cooling and increase efficiency. – Common Power Slot design, which helps reduce power waste by allowing customers to choose from four power supplies to match their specific workload. Customers can achieve more than 92 percent energy efficiency in the majority of real-world configurations.
• HP Asset Recovery Services, which obtain the highest return on your older technology by helping you derive any remaining value from unwanted equipment, while maintaining the highest standard of data security.
• HP StorageWorks 4400/6400/8400 EVAs, which enable you to achieve up to 24 percent
• performance improvement and improve capacity utilization by more than 50 percent, with Dynamic Capacity Manager and automated provisioning.
• HP Thin Clients, which provide an alternative ”lower power device” for reduced maintenance costs, minimal application updates, and a higher level of security than other desk-based products can offer.
• HP modular switches, which enable up to 45 percent cost savings and HP fixed-port switches enable up to 38 percent savings compared to industry averages.
• ProCurve Manager Plus (PCM+) management software, which helps you remotely schedule shutdown of idle PoE devices such as VoIP phones during the off hours—saving up to 73 percent in energy costs.

ENERGY-EFFICIENT INFRASTRUTURE:

Energy expended from information technology throughout your organization represents significant opportunity to operate more efficiently, reduce carbon, and save costs. So, it is imperative that the infrastructure in which your products operate is energy-efficient. We deliver value in three areas that help make this happen. The first is Energy Efficient Data Center Design services, which help you drive the greatest energy efficiency possible, by designing or retrofitting your data center to enable low PUE/high DCiE results. Our multi-tiered hybrid designs reflect the different infrastructure and availability requirements of businesses to reduce energy use and capital costs. The second area is power management software. By utilizing embedded technology such as Thermal Logic in your server products, you can ”cap” the amount of power allocated to an enclosure, enabling dynamic power provisioning to servers as and when the business requires capacity. Also, HP solutions can help you manage your power more effectively to prevent outages and regulate resource allocation, based on IT workload needs and uptime objectives. The third area involves employing next generation, energy-efficient data centers from HP, using the shared infrastructure option with IT outsourcing.

Examples of energy-efficient infrastructure include:

• HP Thermal Zone Mapping, which helps you see a three-dimensional model of exactly how much and where data center air conditioners are cooling, so that you can arrange and manage air conditioning for optimal cooling, increased energy efficiency, and lowered costs.
• HP Critical Facilities Services, which offer a range of expert, customizable assessment and site planning services to help you evaluate your environment and develop more effective and efficient power and cooling strategies for better utilization. HP designs data centers to meet international standards and often we are part of authoring those standards. For example, HP consultants will design a data center to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction. We also use BRE Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), which is a widely used environmental assessment method for buildings.
• HP Virtualization, which helps combine the workloads of several underutilized servers on to a single server that is utilized more fully—reducing power footprint with fewer servers needed to do the same amount of work.
• HP Lights-Out remote management, which delivers total remote control with an energy-efficient management software that delivers centralized control, reliable security, and energy savings for HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem infrastructure.

TRANSFORMED BUSINESS PROCESSES:

In addition to assets and infrastructure, technology now also offers the opportunity to make significant strides in energy efficiency and cost savings across key business processes. Operations that drive the business can be re-designed and streamlined to enable you to remove materials, reduce costs and waste, and improve efficiencies in areas of your business that offer the greatest shareholder value. We transform your business processes with solutions such as:

• HP Halo and HP SkyRoom virtual meetings, which help reduce airfare expenditure and greenhouse gas emissions associated with business travel by bringing people from across the globe into an environment that looks, sounds, and feels as if they are just across the table.
• HP Output Management Solutions, which capture and deliver documents digitally to speed document-based workflows, virtually removing the need for faxing and paper use—while also enabling reliable, time-critical document delivery.
• HP Retail Marketing Automation solutions, which offer a flexible and cost-effective collaboration application that speeds creative execution, lowers costs, and helps you produce compelling promotional material. With this solution, your organization can reduce labor costs by automating processes and decrease waste with customized material. You can also reduce shipping with on-demand printing of material.