HP has announced new hardware, software and service offerings to its client virtualisation portfolio.
HP says it's expanding its support of Citrix XenDesktop with new HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and blade PC solutions. In addition, the company is delivering the HP ProLiant xw460c, a new blade workstation with a graphics expansion blade.
Ivan Barnard, personal solutions group sales technical consultant, says: "At HP, we are rethinking client architectures from the perspective of the customer - creating client virtualisation solutions that help meet the needs for improved manageability, security and flexibility."
Barnard adds: "The announcement expands our broad portfolio of integrated client virtualisation solutions and makes them easier for customers to deploy, operate and maintain."
Mark Bowker, analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, says as more virtualisation solutions hit the market, there is confusion among companies about what virtualisation technologies they should hang their hat on to solve their critical business pain points.
According to HP, the HP thin clients have no moving parts or local hard drive, require little to no maintenance, keep critical business data in the safety of the data centre, and can reduce energy consumption by 60% over a traditional PC when used in a virtualised client environment.
Expected to be available in October, the new systems also provide expanded multimedia features, enhanced brokering capabilities, greater performance and expanded management support. HP is releasing four new thin clients: the +5145, +5540, +5545 and +5630.
HP says it's also expanding its portfolio of HP VDI and blade PC solutions with new products and services based on Citrix XenDesktop. HP VDI with Citrix XenDesktop is based on HP ProLiant iVirtualisation featuring Citrix XenServer.
HP says the new VDI services supporting Citrix XenDesktop will help customers assess the requirements to build a strategy around and determine the business value of a virtualised desktop environment. Customers can also receive support from HP for all components of the solution.
The expansion of XenDesktop support across HP's client virtualisation offerings provides customers with a flexible and streamlined architecture for users working from remote locations, and helps ensure high-speed application delivery across a virtual infrastructure.
The HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation provides secure, easily managed data centre workstation computing for the financial trading, public sector, mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD), and oil and gas segments, the company concludes.
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