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The power of one Top reasons to choose HP BladeSystem
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Transform business economics by accelerating service delivery It’s a powerful combination. Working together, HP BladeSystem and HP OneView help you transform business economics by accelerating service delivery with 66x faster workload deployment.3 That’s what we call the Power of One. Now, more than ever, your IT managers are under enormous pressure to deliver applications and services that innovate and transform your business. You’re being asked to deliver a data center defined by lower costs, rapid time to value, and rock-solid reliability. To accomplish this mission, you need an infrastructure platform that can be highly optimized for today’s and tomorrow’s virtualized workloads to provide operational simplicity that allows you to move at the speed of business. Unfortunately, a traditional infrastructure won’t get you there. A siloed environment requires too many tools and manual processes, which creates unnecessary complexity. That complexity, in turn, causes downtime, slows service delivery, and drains your IT staff productivity.
• 68% lower data center costs1 • 90% reduction in downtime2 • 66x faster workload deployment3
The alternative: an agile, reliable converged infrastructure Rather than more technology silos, your IT organization needs an agile, reliable converged infrastructure platform that is purpose-built for enterprise workloads, such as virtualization and cloud computing, and ready to deliver industry-leading TCO while increasing IT staff productivity. Only HP BladeSystem and HP OneView deliver a single infrastructure and single management platform with automation for rapid delivery of service and rock-solid reliability with federated intelligence. When you run HP BladeSystem with HP OneView, it’s a whole new experience for IT. We call this experience the Power of One—one infrastructure, one management platform, to speed the delivery of services. Only the Power of One delivers leading infrastructure convergence, availability and scalability with federation, and agility through data center automation. Here’s the bottom line: HP BladeSystem helps you lower data center costs by 68%1 so you can shift investment from routine maintenance to innovation, maximize availability by reducing downtime up to 90%,2 and accelerate enterprise workload deployment, such as virtualization and cloud computing, up to 66x 3 faster.
68%: IDC white paper sponsored by HP, “Business Value of Blade Infrastructures,” #227508R2, December 2012. 2 90%: IDC white paper sponsored by HP, “Business Value of Blade Infrastructures,” #227508R2, December 2012. 3 66x: Based on data provided by a beta customer. With HP OneView the beta customer built 12 sites in one night and a new call center deployment in one night vs. previous way when it could build only two sites at a time and it took 11 days to deploy two sites. 1
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Five ways HP BladeSystem optimizes your business with the power of one Inside the enterprise, technology is undergoing a massive transformation. As an architect of innovation, you somehow have to build the enterprise of the future while managing the complexity of your siloed legacy systems of the past. You know that HP BladeSystem is the one platform you can rely on to run virtually any workload at the cost, speed, and reliability your enterprise demands. Let’s take a closer look at the ways HP BladeSystem optimizes your business with the Power of One. 1. Automation to increase agility A software-defined approach to IT infrastructure management shifts your organization from manual processes to template-driven automated processes that reduce the cost and time required to deliver IT services. HP OneView is a single software platform to manage all your infrastructure across compute, networking, and storage. With a modern and integrated workspace for converged infrastructure management, it accelerates enterprise workload deployment, such as virtualization and cloud computing, by up to 66x faster.3
• 95% fewer networking components4 • 40% less power and cooling5 • 9x faster server configuration changes6
2. Realize payback in just seven months Compared with traditional rack server environments, using the HP BladeSystem can dramatically simplify your infrastructure and help you shift investment from maintenance and operations toward business innovation. In fact, HP BladeSystem can reduce your data center costs by up to 68%, according to a study of HP customers by IDC.1 Customers realized a payback on their investment in just seven months. 3. Wire-once simplicity to eliminate networking complexity Traditional rack infrastructure can be sprawling, complex, and expensive to manage. With HP Virtual Connect, we can reduce networking components by up to 95%4 and your power and cooling costs by up to 40%.5 Based on a proven architecture with more than 10 million Virtual Connect ports shipped, HP Virtual Connect is the simplest way to connect servers to any network. 4. Optimizes enterprise workloads, such as virtualization and cloud computing Confidently scale your business on the industry’s leading converged system that is designed, certified, and delivered as a single solution with servers, storage, and networking. Only HP gives you the simplicity and freedom through the Power of One to build IT that’s truly optimized for your business compute solutions for everyday workloads, converged systems for high-intensity virtualized or cloud workloads, and even an entire converged data center. It’s all built on the same HP BladeSystem foundation, delivered on premises or as a service and backed by HP, the worldwide leader in virtualization infrastructure. 5. Maximizes uptime With intelligence built into the infrastructure and server, HP BladeSystem delivers industryleading innovation, such as proactive health monitoring built on a federated architecture to streamline operations and maximize availability. Embedded smart sensors track 100% of configuration changes. With this advanced system telemetry, you can accurately troubleshoot and resolve problems faster than with other servers without impacting application performance.
95%: HP internal calculations comparing number of hardware components of traditional infrastructure versus HP BladeSystem with two Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules, January 2013. 5 40%: Based on the difference of traditional interconnect and adapter power costs compared to VC Flex-10/10D solution. Compare cost of power for 6 Ethernet switches, 16x 1 Gb dualPort NIC LOMs, 16 quad-port NICs to 2 HP VC Flex-10/10D modules connected to 16 embedded Flex-10 adapters. This notes refers to VC FlexFabric and not VC Flex10/10D. 6 9x: As compared to manual operations. 4
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Get up and running fast, with the right support HP BladeSystem services include consulting, implementation, and support services for your all of your infrastructure. Our services get your BladeSystem solution up and running sooner, so your benefits start earlier, and we can provide the support to keep them running.
Build an IT foundation for tomorrow’s business Only HP BladeSystem delivers a whole new experience for IT with the Power of One—one infrastructure, one management platform, reducing the need for multiple management tools, streamlining processes and eliminating common sources of errors to speed the delivery of services. As the single software-defined management platform, HP OneView delivers industryleading innovation, such as proactive health monitoring, built on a federated architecture to streamline operations and maximize availability.
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The power of one Top reasons to choose HP BladeSystem
Brochure | HP BladeSystem
Transform business economics by accelerating service delivery It’s a powerful combination. Working together, HP BladeSystem and HP OneView help you transform business economics by accelerating service delivery with 66x faster workload deployment.3 That’s what we call the Power of One. Now, more than ever, your IT managers are under enormous pressure to deliver applications and services that innovate and transform your business. You’re being asked to deliver a data center defined by lower costs, rapid time to value, and rock-solid reliability. To accomplish this mission, you need an infrastructure platform that can be highly optimized for today’s and tomorrow’s virtualized workloads to provide operational simplicity that allows you to move at the speed of business. Unfortunately, a traditional infrastructure won’t get you there. A siloed environment requires too many tools and manual processes, which creates unnecessary complexity. That complexity, in turn, causes downtime, slows service delivery, and drains your IT staff productivity.
• 68% lower data center costs1 • 90% reduction in downtime2 • 66x faster workload deployment3
The alternative: an agile, reliable converged infrastructure Rather than more technology silos, your IT organization needs an agile, reliable converged infrastructure platform that is purpose-built for enterprise workloads, such as virtualization and cloud computing, and ready to deliver industry-leading TCO while increasing IT staff productivity. Only HP BladeSystem and HP OneView deliver a single infrastructure and single management platform with automation for rapid delivery of service and rock-solid reliability with federated intelligence. When you run HP BladeSystem with HP OneView, it’s a whole new experience for IT. We call this experience the Power of One—one infrastructure, one management platform, to speed the delivery of services. Only the Power of One delivers leading infrastructure convergence, availability and scalability with federation, and agility through data center automation. Here’s the bottom line: HP BladeSystem helps you lower data center costs by 68%1 so you can shift investment from routine maintenance to innovation, maximize availability by reducing downtime up to 90%,2 and accelerate enterprise workload deployment, such as virtualization and cloud computing, up to 66x 3 faster.
68%: IDC white paper sponsored by HP, “Business Value of Blade Infrastructures,” #227508R2, December 2012. 2 90%: IDC white paper sponsored by HP, “Business Value of Blade Infrastructures,” #227508R2, December 2012. 3 66x: Based on data provided by a beta customer. With HP OneView the beta customer built 12 sites in one night and a new call center deployment in one night vs. previous way when it could build only two sites at a time and it took 11 days to deploy two sites. 1
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Five ways HP BladeSystem optimizes your business with the power of one Inside the enterprise, technology is undergoing a massive transformation. As an architect of innovation, you somehow have to build the enterprise of the future while managing the complexity of your siloed legacy systems of the past. You know that HP BladeSystem is the one platform you can rely on to run virtually any workload at the cost, speed, and reliability your enterprise demands. Let’s take a closer look at the ways HP BladeSystem optimizes your business with the Power of One. 1. Automation to increase agility A software-defined approach to IT infrastructure management shifts your organization from manual processes to template-driven automated processes that reduce the cost and time required to deliver IT services. HP OneView is a single software platform to manage all your infrastructure across compute, networking, and storage. With a modern and integrated workspace for converged infrastructure management, it accelerates enterprise workload deployment, such as virtualization and cloud computing, by up to 66x faster.3
• 95% fewer networking components4 • 40% less power and cooling5 • 9x faster server configuration changes6
2. Realize payback in just seven months Compared with traditional rack server environments, using the HP BladeSystem can dramatically simplify your infrastructure and help you shift investment from maintenance and operations toward business innovation. In fact, HP BladeSystem can reduce your data center costs by up to 68%, according to a study of HP customers by IDC.1 Customers realized a payback on their investment in just seven months. 3. Wire-once simplicity to eliminate networking complexity Traditional rack infrastructure can be sprawling, complex, and expensive to manage. With HP Virtual Connect, we can reduce networking components by up to 95%4 and your power and cooling costs by up to 40%.5 Based on a proven architecture with more than 10 million Virtual Connect ports shipped, HP Virtual Connect is the simplest way to connect servers to any network. 4. Optimizes enterprise workloads, such as virtualization and cloud computing Confidently scale your business on the industry’s leading converged system that is designed, certified, and delivered as a single solution with servers, storage, and networking. Only HP gives you the simplicity and freedom through the Power of One to build IT that’s truly optimized for your business compute solutions for everyday workloads, converged systems for high-intensity virtualized or cloud workloads, and even an entire converged data center. It’s all built on the same HP BladeSystem foundation, delivered on premises or as a service and backed by HP, the worldwide leader in virtualization infrastructure. 5. Maximizes uptime With intelligence built into the infrastructure and server, HP BladeSystem delivers industryleading innovation, such as proactive health monitoring built on a federated architecture to streamline operations and maximize availability. Embedded smart sensors track 100% of configuration changes. With this advanced system telemetry, you can accurately troubleshoot and resolve problems faster than with other servers without impacting application performance.
95%: HP internal calculations comparing number of hardware components of traditional infrastructure versus HP BladeSystem with two Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules, January 2013. 5 40%: Based on the difference of traditional interconnect and adapter power costs compared to VC Flex-10/10D solution. Compare cost of power for 6 Ethernet switches, 16x 1 Gb dualPort NIC LOMs, 16 quad-port NICs to 2 HP VC Flex-10/10D modules connected to 16 embedded Flex-10 adapters. This notes refers to VC FlexFabric and not VC Flex10/10D. 6 9x: As compared to manual operations. 4
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Get up and running fast, with the right support HP BladeSystem services include consulting, implementation, and support services for your all of your infrastructure. Our services get your BladeSystem solution up and running sooner, so your benefits start earlier, and we can provide the support to keep them running.
Build an IT foundation for tomorrow’s business Only HP BladeSystem delivers a whole new experience for IT with the Power of One—one infrastructure, one management platform, reducing the need for multiple management tools, streamlining processes and eliminating common sources of errors to speed the delivery of services. As the single software-defined management platform, HP OneView delivers industryleading innovation, such as proactive health monitoring, built on a federated architecture to streamline operations and maximize availability.
Learn more at hp.com/go/bladesystem
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© Copyright 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. 4AA5-2753ENW, May 2014
