HP Introduces Innovations Built for the Data Center of the Future
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HP Introduces Innovations Built for the Data Center of the Future

BARCELONA, SPAIN -- (Marketwired) -- Dec 09, 2013 -- HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced new HP ConvergedSystem and HP Converged Storage offerings that give enterprises the speed, agility and lower economics to build the next-generation data centers that will power tomorrow's successful organizations.

Data centers are reaching an unsustainable point -- in the next five years, the average enterprise will see data capacities grow more than 800 percent, according to Gartner.(1) Enterprises need to be able to manage this exponential growth in data while introducing new applications, such as big data and analytics, using delivery models such as virtualized infrastructure and the cloud. Yet, enterprise innovation is constrained by the complexities of outdated IT. Organizations must optimize and modernize to deliver a New Style of IT that accelerates revenue generation, drives innovation and reduces business risk, while at the same time reducing overall costs.

HP understands what's needed in the data center of the future, and is eliminating IT complexity through its innovations in the new HP ConvergedSystem portfolio -- a family of integrated IT systems purpose-built for key workloads such as virtualization, big data and hosted desktops. The new HP ConvergedSystem products deliver a total systems experience that dramatically simplifies IT, enabling clients to go from order to operations in as few as 20 days. With quick deployment, intuitive management and system-level support, IT organizations can shift their focus from systems integration to delivering the applications that power their business.

HP also is introducing new solutions that provide the simplest, fastest way to deliver and manage data. These include HP Converged Storage innovations to restore business productivity at record speed, significantly reduce the cost of flash-optimized application performance to generate faster business returns, and simplify application mobility from public to private clouds to deliver secure service levels.

"The next generation of CIOs and CTOs will be at the center of their organization's business strategy and relied upon to drive growth, accelerate innovation and manage risk," said Bill Veghte, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Group, HP. "HP ConvergedSystem and HP Converged Storage offerings enable our customers to use technology to deliver business outcomes that drive their success, by creating an agile pool of resources that can deploy quickly, accelerate results and transform an organization's most valuable asset -- its data -- into actionable competitive insight."

HP ConvergedSystem delivers fastest, easiest, lowest cost path to virtualization
As IT organizations transform to become more agile, reduce costs and drive greater innovation, they are increasingly turning to integrated systems that minimize resources spent architecting and refining solutions. IDC projects that the market for converged systems will grow more than three times faster than the growth of spend on traditional infrastructure.(2)

HP ConvergedSystem is a new product line engineered from the ground up based on 21st-century assets and architectures for the New Style of IT. Built using HP Converged Infrastructure's best-in-class servers, storage, networking, software and services, the new HP ConvergedSystem family of products deliver a total systems experience "out of the box."

 

HP ConvergedSystem products also come with a unified support model from HP Proactive Care, providing clients with a single point of accountability for all system components, including partner software. HP also offers consulting capabilities to plan, design and integrate HP ConvergedSystem offerings into broader cloud, big data and virtualization solutions, while mapping physical and virtual workloads onto clients' new HP ConvergedSystem.

HP ConvergedSystem builds on the experience HP gained with HP CloudSystem, the company's purpose-built integrated system for building and managing clouds, which has been delivered to more than 1,000 customers worldwide. HP CloudSystem was recently rated as a top private cloud solution by Forrester Research.(6)

HP Converged Storage simplifies data protection, retention, storage for New Style of IT
HP Converged Storage modernizes and simplifies storage infrastructure with a single approach to primary storage and to data protection and retention. New enhancements to the HP Converged Storage portfolio deliver industry-leading performance and efficiency, making it possible for organizations to accelerate their journey to the New Style of IT.

 

Pricing and availability(9)

 

All offerings are available worldwide from HP and authorized channel partners.

The live HP Enterprise Group press conference is available in a streaming webcast here. The press conference is scheduled to begin today at 3 p.m. CET.

Additional information about the HP ConvergedSystem portfolio is available at www.hp.com/go/convergedsystems. Additional information about HP Converged Storage solutions is available at www.hp.com/go/storage.

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(1) Gartner Symposium ITXPO 2013, "Top 10 Trends and Their Impact on IT Infrastructure and Operations," Milind Govekar, Andrew Butler, October 2013.
(2) IDC, "Why the Datacenter of the Future Will Leverage a Converged Infrastructure," doc No. DR2013_T4_ME, March 2013.
(3) Based on a comparison of HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Virtualization with VCE VBlock 100.
(4) Based on HP Vertica Analytics Platform customer benchmarks.
(5) Based on HP internal testing, October 2013.
(6) Forrester Research, Inc., "The Forrester Wave: Private Cloud Solutions, Q4 2013," November 2013.
(7) Based on HP internal comparison with EMC Data Domain.
(8) Based on HP internal comparison of traditional file system scans vs. HP StoreAll Express Query. HP Express Query took 1.434 seconds to complete. The previous find command took 151,278.706 seconds to complete.
(9) Estimated U.S. list prices. Actual prices may vary.

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