CRN Network, June 23, 2010, 1030 hrs
Building on the momentum of its Converged Infrastructure strategy, HP has introduced the most significant HP BladeSystem advancements in four years, several new servers as well as new features in HP Virtual Connect and HP BladeSystem Matrix.
The company also announced new power management technologies, which it claims automates energy awareness and control of IT systems across the data center, as well as storage software that provides 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 enterprise solutions across every area of the data center, resulting in greater levels of simplification, performance and savings for our clients.”
HP’s new Proliant G7 server platform includes the scale-up server line, the rack optimized products and the blade server line.
The scale-up server line promises a server consolidation of 23:1 and delivers automation tools that allow clients to speed application delivery and more effectively utilize IT resources.
The rack-mount servers offer several industry firsts with memory footprints of up to 2TB and self-healing capabilities that maximize application uptime with a 200 percent boost in availability. Optimized for the most data-intensive workloads, this server line reduces data center footprint, complexity and costs with a consolidation ratio up to 91:1.
The third category include HP Proliant G7 server blades for virtualization environments by offering the industry’s first blade with 1TB 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.
The BladeSystem Matrix introduced by HP claims to 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. The 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, the BladeSystem Matrix enables private clouds by allowing clients to deploy complex IT environments in minutes. As a result, clients can reduce their total cost of ownership up to 56 percent compared to traditional IT infrastructures,” claimed Dhar.
HP’s enhanced Intelligent Power Discovery eliminates over-provisioning in the data center and provides accurate and timely power usage data and control which HP says can help companies save millions of dollars in data center energy costs.
“HP Intelligent Power Discovery is industry-first advancement for green data centers, which creates an automated, energy-aware network between Proliant servers, third-party facility management tools and data center power grids. Expanding on our 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,” informed Dhar. |