Europe’s major global financial services provider, Barclays, has reportedly signed a deal with HP to roll out a more adaptive infrastructure.
The deal stands as the first ever initiative taken in Europe by Barclays to go for “green” by deploying HP Dynamic Smart Cooling Technology.
HP’s latest revolutionary technology will reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with Barclays’ new major data center in the U.K.
Hewlett-Packard (
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Alert) launched Dynamic Smart Cooling Technology during the month of October last year. As more and more businesses are seeking to reduce their environmental impact, HP’s Dynamic Smart Cooling technology actively manages data center cooling while reducing cooling power consumption.
Under this new contract, HP’s Dynamic Smart Cooling Technology will allow Barclays to save up to 13.4 percent of total energy used for its data center. The system will constantly keep track and also efficiently regulate the air handlers to alter the cooling energy based on demand from the servers and storage devices.
As a result of growing demand for technology, energy costs associated with data centers are raising rapidly. With their increasing need for power, data centers are becoming large contributors to the carbon footprint of many companies. This significant deal from Barclays and HP is expected to reduce the Barclays carbon impact by approximately 7,470 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.
Marcus Agius, chairman of Barclays Group, said in a
press statement that the company is making clear commitment to reduce the carbon impact. He recollected the company’s contribution towards the CBI Climate Change Task Force conducted during November, last year.
Agius indicated this step of implementing HPs Dynamic Smart Cooling Technology as a most significant move on the part of Barclays towards reducing its carbon impact.
Francesco Serafini, managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, at HP, said, “HP has a close working relationship with Barclays, and our companies share a commitment to utilizing technology to drive better business and environmental outcomes.”
Towards planning for a better environment and to reduce the carbon impact by the company, Barclays had set certain targets to be fulfilled within 2010. The target includes, Reduce CO2 emissions by 20 percent by 2010, reduce carbon intensity from 16.8 tons to 12.9 tons CO2 per £m of UK income, and reduce energy consumption in offices and branches by 20 percent per employee.
Barclays is a leading global financial service provider engaged in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management and investment management services with an extensive international presence in Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia.
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