HP Announces Converged Infrastructure Solutions

HP has announced several industry-first Converged Infrastructure solutions that improve enterprise agility by simplifying deployment and speeding IT delivery.

HP Converged Infrastructure solutions are a key element in a client’s Instant-On Enterprise journey. These offerings break through IT sprawl and turn technology assets into interoperable, shared pools of resources with a common management platform.

These new offerings include:

Converged Systems, a new portfolio of turnkey, optimised and converged hardware, software, tailored consulting and HP Solution Support services that enable clients to be up and running with new applications in hours vs. months. The solutions address top application areas including real-time data analytics, database consolidation and data warehouse.

Converged Storage architecture and portfolio, which integrates HP Store360 scale-out software with HP BladeSystem and HP ProLiant hardware to reduce storage administration, speed time to service delivery, increase energy efficiency and improve access for any data type or application workload. The offerings are complemented by new Storage Consulting services.

Converged Datacentre, a new class of HP Performance Optimised Datacentres (PODs) that can be deployed faster and at a quarter of the cost when compared to a traditional brick-and-mortar datacentre.

HP Server Automation 9.1 software seamlessly provisions physical and virtual application instances across the entire life cycle.

“In a world where enterprises must instantly react to changing markets, clients are turning to HP Converged Infrastructure to dramatically improve their agility,” said Som Satsangi, Director, HP Enterprise Servers, Storage & Networking, HP India. “The new solutions announced today extend the benefits of convergence to deliver new levels of speed, simplicity and efficiency that enable clients to capitalise and anticipate change.”

HP Converged Systems speed solution deployment by providing a common architecture, management and security model across virtualisation, cloud and dedicated application environments. They include:

HP VirtualSystem increases performance and reduces complexity with an architecture optimised for virtual server and virtual desktop environments. It integrates server, storage, networking, virtualisation software and services, dramatically simplifying deployment and management. It also provides advanced security and single-pane-of-glass management across hybrid environments, and it supports Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen and VMware. HP VirtualSystem provides a simple path to cloud computing with a rapid upgrade to HP CloudSystem.

HP CloudSystem, originally announced January 2011, provides a platform for building and managing cloud services across private, public and hybrid environments. Universal security, governance and multitenant management enable clients to ensure quality of service and reduce risk.

HP AppSystem maximises performance while simplifying deployment and application management. These systems offer best practice operations with a standard architecture that lowers total cost of ownership. Among the new systems are HP Vertica Analytics System, as well as HP Database Consolidation Solution and HP Business Data Warehouse Appliance, which are both optimised for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.
HP Technology Services provides a full life cycle of consulting services including strategy, assessment, design, test, implementation and training. HP Solution Support provides single-point-of-contact services for the entire turnkey solution, including third-party software.HP Converged Storage drives rapid response

HP Converged Storage solutions enable clients to independently increase performance and capacity without downtime for any data type or application workload. New solutions include:

HP X5000 G2 Network Storage Systems increase availability for file serving in small enterprise environments. Built on HP BladeSystem technology, they can be deployed in minutes and reduce power requirements up to 58 percent, cooling needs up to 63 percent and storage footprint up to 50 percent.

HP X9000 IBRIX Network Storage Systems optimise retention of unstructured data with new compliance features and the capacity for more than 1 million snapshots. The solution provides insight to the enterprise on trends, market dynamics and other pertinent facts by simplifying management of massive data sets. Policy management capabilities automate the movement of data to optimise resources. It is ideal as a content archiving solution for email, SharePoint files, multimedia, medical image archival (Picture Archive Communications Systems) and other file-based data.