HP has unveiled a blade architecture that features advances in virtualisation and cooling and reductions in power consumption, which the company claims, can reduce the operational costs and capital expenditure of data centres.
After three years in development, HP says its c-Class BladeSystem enables savings that include initial system acquisition, power and cooling, cable reduction and installation, Ethernet and fibre channel switch costs. It touts integration of systems into data centre racks, rack reduction, and benefits from infrastructure control software.
The HP BladeSystem c-Class is modular, to allow businesses to start with HP ProLiant and Integrity servers, HP StorageWorks storage offerings and client blades and later add applications and third-party products to expand data centres as needed, HP says.
HP also claims that over a three-year period, the new design will enable average data centres to realise system acquisition cost savings of up to 41%, facilities cost savings of up to 60%, and initial system setup time cost savings of up to 96%.
These results are based on an HP study on a sample group, which saw actual average cost savings of R16 million of the period.
HP Financial Services is offering investment protection programmes and IBM blades buy-back programmes to promote the new blade architecture.
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