HP Unveils Fastest, Simplest Path To Virtualisation And Big Data

HP has expanded its HP ConvergedSystem portfolio to help clients accelerate business innovation with integrated IT systems purpose-built for the next generation of computing.

A New Style of IT is emerging, in which IT organisations must quickly deliver next-generation applications and web services to drive business growth and competitive differentiation. However, they are often constrained by the complexity of existing IT models. IT must transform from infrastructure craftsmen that dedicate resources to component selection, systems design, solution integration and support to business service experts focused on delivering services that create new business opportunities.

As organisations start embracing this New Style of IT, the market for converged systems is expected to grow more than three times faster than the growth of spend on traditional infrastructure.

HP ConvergedSystem offerings deliver the industry’s first integrated IT systems engineered from the ground up for convergence, helping clients to reduce IT complexity and costs, while increasing performance for leading applications. They unify the servers, storage, networking, software and services clients need to power their IT infrastructure in systems that are easy to procure, manage and support. Building on HP’s leadership in Converged Infrastructure and decades of experience in systems design for major applications, HP ConvergedSystem products are performance-optimised for key workloads like virtualisation, hosted desktops and big data.

Delivering a total systems experience that dramatically simplifies IT, HP ConvergedSystem offerings are operational in as few as 20 days of ordering, so IT can deploy applications faster and accelerate time to value. For example, IDC recently found that converged systems can cut time to market for new services in half, reduce downtime by 50-75 percent and reduce IT infrastructure cost by up to 50 percent.

The new preconfigured workload-optimised systems include:

HP ConvergedSystem for Virtualization, which provides the fastest path to virtualisation with an easy-to-implement integrated system that increases performance and availability of virtual environments. The modular system scales computing resources easily to meet business demands and provides an on-ramp to cloud.

HP ConvergedSystem for Hosted Desktops, which increases employee productivity with the industry’s first hosted desktop system, powered by HP Moonshot, to deliver a full-powered PC experience for knowledge workers, including business graphics and multimedia content.

HP ConvergedSystem for Vertica, which helps organisations reduce costs and quickly turn data into business insight by augmenting existing enterprise data warehouse environments to scale analytics at high speed.

The new HP ConvergedSystem offerings are hyper-efficient systems designed to meet enterprise-grade requirements. Based on best practice configurations, they deliver risk-free performance-tuned, pretested and validated systems “out of the box.” In addition, HP ensures system performance with built in deployment and patch management.

“IT organisations today are undergoing a fundamental transformation from offering basic infrastructure support to serving as business partners responsible for driving growth,” said Stephen Bovis, vice president & general manager, Servers HP Asia Pacific and Japan. “HP’s goal is to help organisations accelerate innovation by freeing IT from the complexity of technology integration. Through quick deployment, intuitive management and system-level support, HP ConvergedSystem products enable IT to shift their focus from infrastructure craftsmanship to delivering the applications that power their business.”