HP automates IT to save millions

Building on the momentum of its
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announced industry firsts in
server, storage, network and power management technologies that
enable clients to shift millions of dollars in operational costs to
activities that drive business innovation. HP converged
infrastructure provides a blueprint for clients that want to
eliminate sprawl, complexity and excess maintenance costs.

The introduction at HP Tech Forum
include the most significant HP BladeSystem advancements in four
years, including several new servers as well as innovations in HP
Virtual Connect and HP BladeSystem Matrix. Also announced are unique
power management technologies that automate energy awareness and
control of IT systems across the datacenters, as well as storage
software that provides new levels of simplicity and 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 groundbreaking
enterprise solutions across every area of the datacenter, resulting
in the greater levels of simplification, performance and savings for
our clients.”

HP's ability to deliver these and
other innovations on top of industry standards has driven customer
confidence in HP ProLiant, as demonstrated in the company's
marketshare leadership — a 56.1 percent marketshare in blade
servers and 39.2 percent share in x86 servers, according to IDC's
Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.

Data-intensive enterprise workloads are
driving a massive increase in scalability, reliability and
performance requirements. To perform optimally, servers must have a
balanced architecture across CPU, input/output and memory.

Three new HP ProLiant scale-up servers
deliver a number of innovations in automation that allow clients to
speed application delivery, more effectively utilize IT resources and
achieve improved return on investment. The rack-mount servers offer
several industry firsts with memory footprints of up to 2 terabytes
(TB) and 'self-healing' capabilities that maximize application uptime
with a 200 percent boost in availability. Optimized for the most
data-intensive workloads, the servers reduce datacenter footprint,
complexity and costs with a consolidation ratio up to 91-to-1.

Seven new HP ProLiant G7 server blades
address the most demanding virtualization environments by offering
the industry's first blade with 1 TB 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.

HP BladeSystem Matrix: 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.

HP 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,
HP 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.

HP Intelligent Power Discovery
eliminates overprovisioning in the datacenter. Accurate and timely
power usage data and control can save companies millions of dollars
in data center energy costs.

HP Intelligent Power Discovery is an
industry-first advancement for green datacenters that creates an
automated, energy-aware network between HP ProLiant servers.
Expanding on HP's 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.

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