HP has introduced Integrity solutions that deliver what it says is the industry's first mission-critical converged infrastructure.
Built on a new HP Blade Scale Architecture that spans servers, storage and networking, HP Integrity solutions claim to improve customers' service-level agreement performance, and provide up to 100% application availability, while simplifying mission-critical computing.
HP said, at this week's Technology@work annual business technology conference, in Frankfurt, Germany, that this is the first significant architectural upgrade for Integrity Superdome delivered by the company in a decade.
“The architecture allows users to deploy, automate and manage an entire range of applications side by side, within the same enclosure, and using the same components, tools and processes,” says Martin Fink, senior VP and GM of HP's Business Critical Systems.
Fink says the new technology gives HP clients the capability to create data centres that allow them to spend less time on operations, rather focusing their resources on driving innovation to address business needs. “Currently, organisations are spending 70% of resources on operations and maintenance, and only 30% on innovation. This technology can radically change this.”
He says the new Integrity portfolio comprises servers, software and services that offer several benefits to clients. “This will offer up to a 450% improvement in infrastructure reliability over previous generations with HP Integrity Superdome 2, as it is built on the unified Blade Scale Architecture, delivering more than 100 new innovations. Its Crossbar Fabric increases system resilience by intelligently routing data between blades and input/output ports with total redundancy.”
According to Fink, the product also offers improved performance and a far lower total cost of ownership. “The new HP Integrity server blades expand from two sockets to eight-socket Unix scale-up server blade. This technology easily scales and reconfigures systems by combining multiple blades to create two-, four- and eight-socket systems.”
Another feature, he says, is investment protection. The HP Integrity rx2800 rack-mount server lets clients use their existing rack-mount environments. “In addition, the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system delivers up to 50% improvement in application deployment time and the fastest failover available.”
He says it also provides automated workload management that enables clients to shrink and grow virtual servers with the needs of their businesses. “It also comes in a pay-per-use model, and delivers immediate capacity on demand.”
Speaking of the HP BladeSystem Matrix with HP-UX - the company's converged infrastructure platform for shared services - Fink says this solution enables users to provision entire application infrastructure, including software, servers, storage and networking, in minutes instead of weeks or months.
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