HP, Alcatel-Lucent integrate infrastructure

data centre infrastructure technology and high-performance communications networks, Telecom Paper writes.

The HP and Alcatel-Lucent Data Centre Network Connect (DCNC) is an integrated architecture that brings together enhanced data centre technology with high-performance communications networks.

DCNC assists enterprises in creating efficiencies within their data centres and networks.

DCNC will leverage the strength of Alcatel-Lucent's recently announced CloudBand solution, which accesses the power of the distributed network infrastructure to offer large enterprises and governments access to the cloud with the quality of service their activities require, The Financial reports.

To address critical functions such as disaster recovery, data backup, virtual machine mobility and the creation of cloud backbones, large enterprises and service providers require an integrated solution that provides ultra-high bandwidth and low latency for connecting data centres.

Emerging data centre trends, such as server virtualisation, scale-out applications, network convergence and cloud computing, have placed new demands on data centre and service provider networks.

As such, they require new designs and infrastructure technology that eliminate bandwidth, performance and availability limitations.

According to CBR, HP VP and GM technology consulting, Arthur Filip says clients were creating vast amounts of information that needed to be resourced, distributed and shared, without compromising the quality of data or the speed at which it is delivered.