IT sprawl has greatly increased complexity across the IT infrastructure, which, in turn, has driven up operations costs and stifled innovation. Today, businesses spend up to 70% of their IT budgets managing operations and only 30% driving new IT initiatives.
So says David Donatelli, executive VP and GM of enterprise servers, storage and networking at HP, during a press conference at the company's Tech Forum event, in Las Vegas, this week.
“Earlier this year, HP unveiled its Converged Infrastructure that provides the blueprint for organisations to eliminate technology silos, simplify the management of their environment, and drive integration across the data centre,” he said.
According to him, creating a virtual pool of shared storage resources is a key technology in the evolution to a converged infrastructure. With this in mind, he adds, the company has released two HP StorageWorks solutions: HP StorageWorks P4800 BladeSystem storage area network (SAN) and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Cluster.
“These products enable clients to consolidate servers, storage and desktops by creating virtual resource pools of capacity. This enables clients to easily shift resources as the organisation requires.”
He says companies also struggle with sprawl from desktops, portables and mobile devices, and that data now resides on a large number of devices, which makes it difficult to manage, secure and back up. Client virtualisation can simplify management, improve security and reduce backup traffic on the network.
Traditionally, explains Donatelli, client virtualisation involves a complex integration of storage, servers, networking and management. In answer to this, he says, HP has released the first client virtualisation reference architecture built for converged infrastructure.
He describes this as a comprehensive hardware and software architecture, that can scale to support thousands of virtual desktops in a simple, modular design that is pre-sized and pre-tested, and claims to deliver three times the productivity for IT administrators. “It supports 1 600 users at 50% less cost and requires 60% less space than traditional client virtualisation implementations.”
A vital component of this architecture is the company's StorageWorks P4800 BladeSystem SAN, which it says offers scalable, shared storage for a converged server, storage and networking environment.
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