Dell has signed up with Emerson Network Power to help customers dramatically lower their data centre power and cooling requirements.

The Dell and Emerson Network Power Energy Smart Solution combines Dell's innovative PowerEdge Energy Smart servers with Liebert XD supplemental cooling technology and Liebert High Precision Air Conditioning cooling systems to deliver up to 80 per cent in systems performance increase and up to 42 per cent reduction in facility power compared to previous generations of Dell servers.

This offering will empower customers to help simplify their IT environments, achieve greater power efficiency and reclaim more data centre space.

'CIO's and facilities managers are consistently faced with the challenge of increasing computing capacity to meet growing business needs while concurrently minimising energy costs,' said vice-president of mrketing, Dell EMEA, Jeff Kimbell.

'y reducing both operational costs and the carbon footprint for our customers, Dell is simplifying the way businesses can take advantage of energy efficient programmeand technologies without compromising IT performance,' he added.

Dell is designing new Energy Smart Services to help customers identify power and cooling inefficiencies, assess data centre infrastructure and systems capacities, develop recommendations for improvements to optimise computing capacity, reclaim data centre space and reduce energy usage.

This holistic, simplified approach to designing and optimising standards-based IT infrastructures will help enable customers to take advantage of proven, end-to-end solutions for today's most pressing data centre energy issues while planning for future business growth.

Dell-Emerson Network Power Energy Smart Solutions are available immediately worldwide. For more information on Dell Energy Smart Solutions, visit www.dell.com/energy www.dell.com/meTrade Arabia News Service