HP increases momentum for Converged Infrastructure solutions

By Phumeza Tontsi for HP

Johannesburg, 02 May 2013

HP today announced that in just three years, the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio is outpacing the competition with substantial benefits delivered to business and government customers around the world.

HP's Enterprise Group had $7 billion in sales in the recently reported quarter, leading the overall market across a full converged infrastructure portfolio, shipping millions of servers, storage systems and networking devices a year, and touching more than 80 000 customers daily through technology services and with extremely high mission-critical customer loyalty.(1)

HP pioneered the converged infrastructure category in 2009. Since then, the company has invested in the development of leading technologies that deliver modern architectures optimally integrated across servers, storage, networking, security, power and cooling - all administered through a common management platform.

The result is the thousands of HP Converged Infrastructure customers who have accelerated time to market, improved IT agility, reduced costs, maximised return on investment and paved their way to the cloud. Reflecting HP's market leadership in making convergence a reality are the successful deployments at more than 900 HP CloudSystem customers.(2)

Customers thrive in new era of computing with HP Converged Infrastructure

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Shifts in the IT market bring new challenges to the efficiency and effectiveness of an organisation's technology infrastructure. HP Converged Infrastructure enables customers to shift resources from IT to innovation, with a modern data centre that eliminates complexities and is less expensive to operate, regardless of customer industry, size or unique requirements.

"HP Converged Infrastructure technologies are increasing our capacity to produce state-of-the-art CG animation - great storytelling combined with stunning visuals. And that's what audiences expect." - Derek Chan, head of Technology Global Operations at DreamWorks Animation SKG

"T-Mobile wanted to accelerate the timing and precision of our marketing campaigns to increase customer and shareholder value. We selected SAP HANA running on HP Converged Infrastructure to achieve this result." - Erez Yarkoni, chief information officer, T-Mobile US

"By breaking down the wall between IT and the business, it's easier for end-users to share their needs. And not only do we have the time to explore opportunities, to analyse trends, and help our users make better decisions, but we also have the agile infrastructure to deliver new services quickly and cost-effectively." - Scott Martin, chief information officer, Chipita America

"Our decision was easy because there is no other product in the market comparable to HP CloudSystem. Also because it is based on the leading HP Converged Infrastructure approach, this gave us a single vendor solution to simplify implementation and support." - Lubomir Pinkava, chief technology officer, Casablanca INT

"HP was the only vendor able to deliver a complete converged infrastructure with the services we need to ensure business continuity for our operations." - Hermann Grabner, vice-president, IT, Fischer Advanced Composite Components (FACC)

Additional customer testimonials are available at the HP Converged Infrastructure case study library.

First and only open solution to offer best of both worlds

Systems from competitors offer closed, inflexible infrastructures that can only handle narrow workloads - supporting one hypervisor and designed for virtualisation only. HP was the first to deliver an open solution, and the only one optimised for any workload at any scale - providing the best of both worlds.

In addition, HP has built a comprehensive line-up of workload-specific HP AppSystems, including the industry's first enterprise-ready Hadoop solution as well as HP AppSystem for SAP HANA to accelerate and scale business analytics.

"In 2009, HP identified the unique customer benefits of a converged infrastructure and the requirements placed on every aspect of the data centre," said Frank van Rees, Managing Director and Enterprise Group Lead, HP South Africa. "HP offers the most complete portfolio of converged technologies and integrated systems on the market today. We have all of the critical engineering teams under one roof teaming up to drive solutions for both today and tomorrow. We take an open and heterogeneous approach to driving innovation, which is why customers choose HP over incomplete alternatives from competitors such as VCE or Dell."

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