Abracadabra! HP Makes 79 Data Centres Disappear
Abracadabra! HP Makes 79 Data Centres Disappear
May 18, 2006: HP has announced plans to consolidate 85 of its data centres worldwide into just six, all located in U.S. cities.
Two large data centres will be located in each of the three cities, which have been named as Atlanta, Houston and Austin, Texas. Current estimations say the consolidation will reduce HP’s IT spending by around $1 billion in coming years.
“Consolidating our data operations into six state-of-the-art centres will provide HP with strengths that are unmatched in the industry,” says Randy Mott, executive vice president and chief information officer at HP. “The data centres will provide our business with more dependable, simplified operations. This effort will enable faster delivery of new technologies, services and information and provide room for growth and improved business continuity, while significantly reducing costs.”
The company says that while these centres will serve its internal requirements, the HP Services unit will continue to provide services to customers through more than 70 separate data centres in 23 countries.
“Getting IT right requires that we align our core infrastructure to the speed, agility and cost structures that HP’s business innovation requires,” says Mark Hurd, HP chief executive officer and president. “These facilities will serve as a model of the next-generation data centre that HP believes represents the future of enterprise computing.”
HP says that the three locations were selected based on availability and affordability of space, power and network bandwidth, as well as a lower probability of impact from natural disasters.
All sites have been designed to be “lights out” facilities, capable of being operated remotely and each will feature sites with more than 50,000 square feet of useable floor space within 15 miles of each other, enabling them to be serviced centrally.
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