Wednesday, 28 May 2008

NEC Unveils "ECO CENTER" Energy-Saving Server

NEC Corporation Tuesday unveiled its latest attempt at supporting the “green” movement within the IT industry, taking the wraps off its new “ECO CENTER” – a specialized space and energy-saving server.

The ECO CENTER reportedly consumes up to 55% less power, occupies 50% less space and is approximately 58% lighter than conventional servers using technology such as highly efficient batteries, optimum cooling functions of high-density packaging, and the adoption of advanced low power CPUs, chipsets and memory.

According to NEC, the ECO CENTER achieves maximum energy-saving benefits by capitalizing on the optimization technology of NEC's "Sigma System Center" integrated and VMware's "VMware(R) ESX 3.5" to streamline allocation of operations in response to hardware demands.

"Loaded with such advanced technologies, the ECO CENTER is ideally suited for the large-scale application servers and Web servers being used in major enterprises and government agency data centers," said Mr. Yukio Ito, Senior Vice President, NEC Corporation.

With energy-saving IT devices attracting considerable attention in the battle against global warming, NEC intends to actively market the ECO CENTER as the core product in its "REAL IT COOL PROJECT.” -- an initiative that aims to cut the power used by customer IT platforms by 50% year on year, and to realize a cumulative reduction in CO2 emissions from IT devices by approximately 910,000 tons by 2012.

NEC forecasts to begin shipment of the ECO CENTER to overseas markets, including the U.S., Europe and Asia by September 2008.