Building on the momentum of its Converged Infrastructure strategy, HP today announced industry firsts in server, storage, network and power management technologies that enable clients to shift millions of dollars in operational costs to activities that drive business innovation.
HP Converged Infrastructure provides a blueprint for clients that want to eliminate sprawl, complexity and excess maintenance costs.
The introductions at HP Tech Forum include the most significant HP BladeSystem advancements in four years, including several new servers as well as innovations in HP Virtual Connect and HP BladeSystem Matrix. Also announced are unique power management technologies that automate energy awareness and control of IT systems across the data center, as well as storage software that provides new levels of simplicity and automation through a single, unified architecture for data deduplication.
“Customers are asking for solutions that remove the layers of complexity and excess equipment that have sprawled across their environments so that IT can focus on innovation rather than operations” said Rajesh Dhar, Director, Industry Standard Servers, HP India. “Today and throughout the year, HP is bolstering its Converged Infrastructure strategy with groundbreaking enterprise solutions across every area of the data center, resulting in greater levels of simplification, performance and savings for our clients.”
HP ProLiant G7 blades and servers: Deliver cost savings in as little as 30 days(1)
HP’s ability to deliver these and other innovations on top of industry standards has driven customer confidence in HP ProLiant, as demonstrated in the company’s market share leadership – a 56.1 percent market share in blade servers and 39.2 percent share in x86 servers, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.(2)
Data-intensive enterprise workloads are driving a massive increase in scalability, reliability and performance requirements. To perform optimally, servers must have a balanced architecture across CPU, input/output (I/O) and memory.
Three new HP ProLiant scale-up servers deliver a number of innovations in automation that allow clients to speed application delivery, more effectively utilize IT resources and achieve improved return on investment. The rack-mount servers offer several industry firsts with memory footprints of up to 2 terabytes (TB) and “self-healing” capabilities that maximize application uptime with a 200 percent boost in availability.(3) Optimized for the most data-intensive workloads, the servers reduce data center footprint, complexity and costs with a consolidation ratio up to 91-to-1.
Seven new HP ProLiant G7 server blades address the most demanding virtualization environments by offering the industry’s first blade with 1 TB of memory and integrated 10Gb Virtual Connect FlexFabric technology for I/O scalability. With an architecture that balances processor performance, expanded memory and I/O capacity, these systems can support up to four times more virtual machines than competitive blades, while requiring 66 percent less hardware.(4)
HP BladeSystem Matrix: Automates private cloud deployment
With manual deployment of applications and infrastructure, it takes weeks or even months to deliver new services to the business. Clients need an automated IT environment to rapidly respond to business change.
HP BladeSystem Matrix software, through new integration with HP Server Automation, simplifies IT environments with one-touch, self-service provisioning of applications. The industry’s first “all inclusive” converged infrastructure offering, HP BladeSystem Matrix enables private clouds by allowing clients to deploy complex IT environments in minutes.(6) As a result, clients can reduce their total cost of ownership up to 56 percent compared to traditional IT infrastructures.(6)
HP Intelligent Power Discovery: Eliminates overprovisioning in the data center
Accurate and timely power usage data and control can save companies millions of dollars in data center energy costs.
HP Intelligent Power Discovery is an industry-first advancement for green data centers that creates an automated, energy-aware network between HP ProLiant servers,(7) third-party facility management tools and data center power grids. Expanding on HP’s Data Center Smart Grid solutions, the software provides greater transparency and insight into power usage by creating a real-time, graphical map of energy usage across servers and facilities. By accurately provisioning energy, clients can extend the lives of their data centers and save up to $5 million per every 1,000 servers in one year
