HP Converged Infrastructure

HP Converged Infrastructure delivers a whole new level of simplicity, integration, and automation through an IT environment that is synergistically aligned to the needs of the business. It helps you:

• Drive business growth by accelerating IT innovation and responsiveness
• Manage risks by accelerating security and disaster recovery
• Lower costs by accelerating ROI and sustainability

This is achieved through a systematic approach that brings all server, storage, and networking resources together into a single optimised solution.

This approach also brings together management tools, policies, and processes so resources and applications are managed in a holistic, integrated manner.

And it brings together security, and power and cooling management capabilities so systems and facilities work together to extend the life of the data centre.

Components of a Converged Infrastructure solution include servers, data storage devices, networking equipment and software for IT infrastructure management, automation and orchestration.

Converged Infrastructure is one of the key components of HP’s Instant-On Enterprise initiative – a vision that sees the IT department as both a builder and broker of IT services, needing to use both existing and new technologies to deliver services.

Converged Systems

Extend the power of Converged Infrastructure into optimised solutions for virtualisation, cloud and next-generation applications.

HP Converged Systems integrate hardware, software and services into turnkey systems to help businesses harness the full potential of virtualisation, cloud and next generation applications.

HP VirtualSystem

In today's world the number one priority for 76% of IT decision makers is to reduce virtualisation complexity:

• There are too many management tools
• There are unaddressed security issues
• It is complicated to scale or extend to the cloud

HP has introduced VirtualSystem, a portfolio of precision tuned converged systems which deliver the fastest path to agile and efficient virtualised application solutions.

• HP VirtualSystems eliminate performance bottlenecks with a balanced architecture optimised for virtualised application environments
• HP VirtualSystems simplify management, deployment and security across physical and virtual environments
• HP VirtualSystems provide the essential foundation for the private cloud with simplified upgrade to HP CloudSystem

HP CloudSystem

With an abundance of partial cloud solutions in the marketplace, here are some key considerations when evaluating what's right for you:

• Unified delivery and control of services across cloud and traditional IT environments
• Support for private, public and hybrid cloud environments
• Broad ecosystem of applications, hypervisors, OS's
• Automated application to infrastructure lifecycle management
• Scalability to meet unpredictable business demand
• End-to-end security

HP CloudSystem delivers on all these requirements, with the industry's most complete and integrated solution for building and managing services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments. HP CloudSystem lets enterprises gain agility and allows service providers to drive top line growth.

HP AppSystems

HP knows that conventional IT has become too complex. In today's world:

• Only 32% of IT projects that deliver application services are rated as 'successful' by the business.
• A typical new application environment can take up to 18 months to roll out, without guarantee of success.
• IT struggles with the complexity of integrating, optimising and maintaining these environments, often failing to complete projects on time, on spec and on budget.

HP has introduced AppSystem, a portfolio of integrated systems optimised to deliver maximum performance for dedicated business applications environments.

• HP AppSystems are complete business application solutions, which enable proven turn-key deployments for faster time to application value.
• HP AppSystems are single workload optimised to deliver exceptional quality of service for high productivity at lower TCO.
• HP AppSystems are agile to leverage existing investments and rapidly scale to meet changing business needs. Unlike other approaches that only address a fraction of application needs and create incompatible islands of IT, only HP delivers a systematic approach to optimise application performance and standardise IT operations across the data centre with a common architecture, management and security model across the data centre.

Converged Storage

A new architecture for the next generation of storage built on modular building blocks that defines how storage will be delivered for cloud, big data and applications.

Most unified and monolithic storage deployed today was built for the needs of 20 years ago, before explosive data growth or cloud computing. Legacy storage is too expensive, complex, and isolated for today's requirements.

Converged Storage enables solutions architected from federated, scale-out storage software delivered on leading HP ProLiant and BladeSystem hardware and managed with converged storage, server, and networking orchestration.

• Scale storage 41% faster
• Reduce IT service delivery time to minutes
• Spend up to 90% less time managing storage
• Cut power, cooling, and floorspace in half

The HP Converged Storage portfolio includes 3PAR, LeftHand, StoreOnce, and IBRIX Storage Systems.

• Simplify the storage and archival of massive content pools with the new HP X9000 IBRIX Storage System
• Squeeze the most out of infrastructure with the new HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array.
• Consolidate servers and increase data availability with the new HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System.

Converged Data Centres

Introducing the world's most efficient data centre – the HP POD 240a; the latest innovation of HP's modular data center technology.

Today's CIO's are challenged. They are being asked to do more with less – innovation and growth are being throttled.

Yet, rigid, existing data centers are rapidly running out of capacity and space. And, new capacity is too costly and time consuming. Business cycles are increasingly unpredictable and energy efficiency is no longer optional.

Time to rethink the data centre.

Introducing the HP POD 240a. The world's most efficient data center.

Unlike traditional brick and mortar data centers, the HP POD 240a packs ten times the IT capacity into a compact, modular, ultra efficient package.

• Lightning fast deployment – up to 88% faster
• A quarter of the cost – up to 75% savings
• Near perfect energy efficiency – up to 95% less energy