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HP's next generation data centre automation
Wednesday 2nd June 2010
Designed to be a ‘lights out’ data centre. The lighting turns on automatically when someone enters an area of the plant. HP’s environmental consciousness even extends to painting its racks grey instead of the New Wynayard Next Generation Data Centre traditional black. Grey paint requires less lighting, which in turns leads to less electricity usage. Courtesy: http://martinhingley.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/hp-wynyard-q110/
Hewlett-Packard is to invest $1bn in its enterprise services business and the modernised data centers would enable its customers to run their businesses more efficiently from those data centers. HP will cut 9,000 jobs and take charges of $1bn over several years as it consolidates and automates the data centres, evidence that the data centre services part of IT is becoming highly automated and no longer the one-time computer bureaux employer.
Gartner vice 
president and analyst Mark Fabbi (right) compared Hewlett’s data center division to factory floor during the Industrial Revolution. “In the Industrial Revolution, they put things on an assembly line and didn’t need those jobs anymore,” he said. “This is the same thing applied to H-P, a hundred years later.”
In 2005, HP cut 15,300 jobs partly by consolidating data centers running the company’s own operations. In 2008, acquiring Electronic Data Systems, it cut 7.5% of the company, 25,000 people and reduced salaries of others by 20% percent in some cases. In May 2009, H.P. announced that it would cut a further 6,420 people.
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