HP are taking on IBM in offering solutions for Datacenter Efficiency at scale….

HP unveiled the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio this week, which is a set of new solutions targeting large-scale datacenter customers. The mega-datacenter market encompasses sites that are specifically designed for massive scale operations, including grid computing, large scale-out compute, Cloud, Web 2.0, and HPC. Common across all these sites is the laser focus on reducing operational expenses in addition to the capital expenditures of IT systems; the reason being in these companies the datacenter is the factory floor where IT operational costs have a clear and direct impact on business profits.

The second part of the announcement is the new HP Data Center Environment Edge solution designed to optimized datacenter energy efficiency. The solution utilizes a network of wireless sensors to map the customer’s environment, providing visibility into the facilities aspects of their IT operations. In real time, customers are able to monitor power consumption, temperature, humidity, and air pressure throughout the datacenter. As with other environmental monitoring tools, customers are able to track performance over a time to observe trends and develop a baseline from which they can identify areas for improvement.