To power the compact and efficient data center servers, Hewlett-Packard has launched a Moonshot server system which uses the smartphone-style chips. These servers can reduce energy use by as much as 89 per cent and utilize a fifth of the space of traditional computer servers.
Meg Whitman, Chief, HP, said, "With nearly 10 billion devices connected to the Internet and predictions for exponential growth, we have reached a point where the space, power and cost demands of traditional technology are no longer sustainable. HP Moonshot marks the beginning of a new style of IT that will change the infrastructure economics and lay the foundation for the next 20 billion devices."
These new class of computer servers are billed as being able to handle the challenges created by social networking, cloud computing, and gathering and analyzing massive amounts of data.
The Moonshot servers are powered by Intel Atom chips commonly found in smartphones and tablets.
The server has been made available in the United States and Canada and will be released elsewhere in May.
