Tech companies do their share to save sea turtles
By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 18:12:00 03/13/2008
Filed Under: Environmental Issues, Technology (general), Animals
SUBIC BAY, Olongapo City -- What can half a million pesos get a company these days? A bunch of servers from HP, new software from Microsoft and the chance to lengthen the life of a sea turtle.
For every customer that buys a c3000 blade server system loaded with Windows Server 2008, HP pledges to "adopt" and fund the preservation of a sea turtle.
HP said it is working with the Preservation of Animal Wildlife Bureau, which manages local sea turtle sanctuaries, one of which is located in Morong, Bataan.
The c3000 package, which costs exactly P530, 000, includes three blade servers -- a configuration that should meet the requirements of most SMBs (small and medium businesses), said Joel Josol, technical consultant for enterprise systems and storage at HP Philippines.
"Typically, an SMB needs a database server, an application server and another one for testing software applications," said Josol.
Blade servers are designed to save on power while increasing computing capacity, according to Josol.
A number of these compact servers can be housed in a single rack that consolidates power supply and cooling resources, thus reducing physical size. IT administrators can add blades for additional capacity or remove them in cases of failure, without server downtime.
HP is ramping up its hardware products preconfigured with the forthcoming server version of Windows. For the c3000 package, customers also have the option to run Unix or Linux.
Locally, Microsoft will launch this April Windows Server 2008, along with the new versions of its SQL Server database and Visual Studio developer tools.
As for the turtles, HP said each will be properly "documented" and tagged with identification indicating the names of their respective sponsors.
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