Thin Client

Unveiled at the Fortune Brainstorm Green Conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif., the review highlights innovations that are helping companies cut costs, create business opportunities and carve out a competitive advantage in a challenging economy.

“HP has been a leader in environmental responsibility for decades and we are honored to be recognized by EDF for our environmental innovations for the second year in a row,” said Jeff Groudan, vice president, Thin Clients and Virtualization Solutions, HP. “HP Thin Clients are one of many products that demonstrate HP’s longstanding commitment to designing products with the environment in mind.”

With no hard drive, fan or other moving parts, HP Thin Clients have a longer lifespan than standard computers and use significantly less power – offering up to 80 percent power savings and one-fourth the failure rate over traditional desktop PCs with similar capabilities.

HP Thin Clients have also qualified for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay ground transportation shipping logo, with recycled packaging that is one-third the weight of equivalent desktop packaging, improving transportation fuel efficiency and helping to reduce a company’s carbon footprint. The new power supplies for HP Thin Clients have also met all the requirements of the ENERGY STAR® program.

HP Thin Clients not only help customers reduce their carbon footprint, but also dramatically improve data security and ease of management, all of which can result in significant cost savings. In a thin client computing model, data is stored and managed from a central, secure data center location instead of dispersed among individual desktop and notebook PCs across an organization.

“Environmental innovation is a powerful way to create business value,” said Gwen Ruta, vice president, Corporate Partnerships, EDF. “These innovations tackle today’s environmental and economic challenges head on – improving the planet and the bottom line at the same time. We hope that they serve as useful models, inspire further innovation and continue to redefine business as usual. ”

The environmental features recognized in The Innovations Review were vetted by EDF and a distinguished panel of experts from the fields of environmental science, law and finance. The final selection includes 15 innovations from around the country. Each feature was evaluated for environmental benefits, business benefits, replicability and innovativeness.

The Innovations Review also highlights two innovations by EDF and its corporate partners: a Green Portfolio project developed by EDF and private equity firm KKR, and Climate Corps, a program that uses interns to develop energy-efficiency investment plans for major corporations.

The review is part of EDF’s broader effort to foster collaboration on corporate environmental innovation through its recently launched Innovation Exchange. Details on all the innovations, as well as multimedia clips, are available at www.innovation.edf.org.

More information about HP Thin Clients is available at http://www.hp.com/sbso/busproducts_thinclient.html.

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