NEC Unveils Energy-Saving Server Eco Centre

NEC India, an IT and networking organisation, has unveiled a new product called ‘Eco Centre’, which is designed to be an energy saving server. As per the company, Eco Centre consumes upto 55 percent less power, occupies upto 50 percent less space and is approximately 58 percent lighter than conventional servers due to the leveraging of NEC technologies, such as efficient batteries, optimum cooling functions of high-density packaging, and adoption of advanced low power CPUs, chipsets and memory. The Eco Centre is designed to support Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Abhilesh Guleria, country manager – IT Platform Business, NEC India, said, “NEC Corporation has concluded the development of ‘Eco Centre’, a specialised space and energy-saving server. NEC Corporation realises the requirements of its customers by closely working with them and always works to innovate its products accordingly. Eco Centre is one such product, which takes care of all the requirements of customers in today’s scenario. Loaded with high-end technology, it will assist customers in cutting their power consumption costs and space costs significantly.”

The Eco Centre achieves energy-saving benefits by capitalising on the optimisation technology of NEC’s ‘Sigma System Centre’ integrated with VMware’s ‘VMware ESX 3.5’ to streamline allocation of operations in response to hardware demands.

The Eco Centre is ideally suited for large-scale application servers and Web servers being used in big enterprises and government agency data centres. With energy-saving IT devices attracting considerable attention in the battle against global warming, NEC intends to actively market the Eco Centre as the core product in its ‘Real IT Cool Project’. This initiative aims to cut the power used by customer IT platforms by 50 percent year on year, and to realise a cumulative reduction in CO2 emissions from IT devices by approximately 910,000 tons by 2012.