HP Delivers Purpose-Built Server For Big Data

HP has unveiled a server built to help clients operationalise Big Data, drive new business opportunities and save up to $1 million over three years.

With the advent of Big Data software and the promise that it brings, many organisations have tried to deploy these solutions on existing architectures not designed to handle the specific needs of these workloads. As a result, the outcomes from these early deployments have been suboptimal from a performance and cost perspective.

The new HP ProLiant SL4500 server series is the only solution purpose built for Big Data environments. It provides maximum performance, productivity and cost-effectiveness in an ultradense solution required by these workloads. Built on HP Converged Infrastructure, the new server offers a highly efficient design that consumes up to 50 percent less space, 61 percent less power and 31 percent lower cost while using 63 percent fewer cables.

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The modular design of the HP ProLiant SL4500 server series offers varied compute and storage configurations that enable clients to optimise their infrastructure for a workload-specific application, removing the need to piece together incongruent hardware for the supporting infrastructure.

With a single, cost-effective architecture, the HP ProLiant SL4500 server series also supports multiple Apache Hadoop vendors including Cloudera and Hortonworks, as well as additional software including OpenStack Cloud Software and MongoDB.

The HP ProLiant SL4500 Gen8 server series, with HP Smart Array technology, delivers good performance with a nearly seven times faster input/output operations per second (IOPS) than existing architectures. With the smart analytics of HP SmartCache, the system will optimise storage traffic to ensure the lowest latency response and up-front investment.

Current server offerings cannot address the rapidly growing amounts of storage and servers for Big Data, forcing IT leaders to acquire additional expensive datacentre space. However, the new HP ProLiantSL4500 server series solves this problem by delivering a good storage density of up to 240 terabytes (TB) in a single 4.3-rack-unit (U) chassis, or 2.16 petabytes (PB) with nine servers in an industry-standard 42-U rack.

As a result of this extreme density, clients realise significant cost savings, greater performance and increased efficiency.

HP also announced updates to its high-performance computing (HPC) portfolio, enabling clients to maximise the performance benefits of the latest processing technology from Intel and NVIDIA.