HP unveils converged infrastructure architecture

HP converged infrastructure architecture and associated services will provide a blueprint for CIOs to create elasticity in their technology environments.

Hewlett Packard on Thursday unveiled the HP converged infrastructure architecture and associated services and partner offerings that provide a blueprint for chief information officers to create elasticity in their technology environments,supporting innovation in their businesses.

The HP converged infrastructure enables data centre environments that allow organizations to focus on innovation and making technology a key differentiator for their businesses. It integrates existing silos of compute,storage,network and facility resources with unified management to deliver a virtualised,highly automated technology environment. With pools of shared services that can be leveraged on the fly,businesses increase the flexibility of their environments and speed time to application value.

In a related advance,HP has extended the HP bladesystem solution builder program to enable additional independent software vendors to build solutions that customers can quickly deploy and easily manage in a converged infrastructure.

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Companies are asking HP to help them thrive in unpredictability by using technology to rapidly meets the needs of their business, said Durgadutt Nedungadi,Director Sales,Enterprise Business,HP India.

The HP converged infrastructure eliminates technology silos and complexity in the data centre while leveraging current technology investments. Through unified management,all assets become part of a resource pool that can be divided,assembled and changed to dynamically align to any business,workload or application need. The use of these resources is optimised across the infrastructure,allowing companies to improve utilization,lower energy use and reduce costs.