New HP Offerings Speed Data Center Transformation By VSM News Staff published: Monday, March 17 2008
BARCELONA,
Spain, March
17, 2008 - HP today announced a set of products and services designed to
help customers transform their data centers from a standalone collection of
physical assets into a virtual and adaptive infrastructure designed to rapidly
meet changing business needs.
New
research conducted on behalf of HP shows that more than one-third of chief
information officers believe that in two to five years their data centers will
be unable to meet the rapidly growing demand for business services and
applications.(1)
To
meet this demand, HP is providing businesses with the technology tools and
strategies needed to address top data center initiatives: energy efficiency,
automation, virtualization, consolidation and business continuity.
Coupled
with HP's current systems, storage, software and services, the new
products and services make up the HP
Data Center Transformation portfolio, which helps enterprises to manage and
transform their data centers.
"Today
customers are facing multiple challenges - the explosion of data, a
growing mobile workforce and the need for access to real-time
information," said Ann Livermore, executive vice president, Technology
Solutions Group, HP. "HP is uniquely qualified to help CIOs dramatically
change the way they create, manage and operate their data centers."
HP
infrastructure additions include new services, plus a powerful HP ProLiant server:
·
HP
Critical Facilities services - As a result of its February
acquisition of EYP Mission
Critical Facilities, HP is expanding its Data Center
Services offering with three new critical facilities services focused on
consulting, design and assurance. The services help customers
create scalable facilities that reduce the cost of data center operations
through energy-efficient power and cooling technologies contained in
space-efficient facilities.(2)
· HP Data
Center Consolidation
services - These include design, transition and support
services to help customers reduce the number of their facilities. As a result,
customers reduce energy and operating costs while maintaining the ability to
support business growth with a robust, flexible infrastructure.
· HP Data Center Virtualization services - The HP
virtualization portfolio has been enhanced with new design, support and
education services that help customers create a virtual infrastructure from
their physical technology assets. This includes virtualization across servers,
storage, networks and applications.
· HP ProLiant DL785 G5
server - The HP ProLiant
DL785 G5 is a powerful and scalable eight-socket x86 server based on Quad-Core
AMD® OpteronTM processor technology. The server is an ideal platform
for virtualization due to its processing power, large memory footprint, storage
capacity and expandable input/output. The DL785 improves server utilization by
consolidating multiple servers and reduces the management, energy and space
issues associated with server sprawl.
New
software provides single view of physical and virtual world, enhanced
automation:
·
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE - This is the
industry's first software to analyze and optimize physical and virtual
resources in the same way. The software helps customers extend the life of
their data centers with advanced energy-aware capacity planning. HP Insight
Dynamics - VSE will support multi-vendor hypervisor technologies and can reduce
costs of common data center tasks by as much as 40 percent. Previewed today and expected to be available in the
second calendar quarter of 2008, HP Insight Dynamics - VSE seamlessly plugs
into HP
Systems Insight Manager, the world's most popular platform management
tool.
· HP Operations Orchestration enhancements - New
integrations extend comprehensive automation across all physical
and virtual infrastructures. By automating manual and error-prone processes
across clients, applications, servers, networks, and storage, these
integrations help customers better manage and automate business services.
Additionally, these enhancements help customers reduce labor costs,
increase service availability and meet compliance requirements by
providing auditable, standardized processes.
New
approach speeds delivery of next-generation infrastructure benefits:
· HP
Adaptive Infrastructure as a Service (AIaaS) - HP AIaaS offers
customers access to HP owned and managed data centers that deliver an optimized
platform for Microsoft® Exchange, SAP® applications and other critical
business applications. Within a matter of hours, customers can
rapidly access additional computing power to meet their fluctuating needs. With
HP AIaaS, customers can realize improved service levels and convert traditional
capital investment into an ongoing operating expense because all assets are
owned and managed by HP.
More
information is available in an online press kit at www.hp.com/go/dctpresskit.
About
HP
HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its
customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a
portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT
infrastructure, HP is among the world's largest IT companies, with
revenue totaling $107.7 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended Jan. 31,
2008. More
information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com
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