HP Differentiators
1. The first mission-critical Converged Infrastructure
Only HP brings all the IT elements together for a mission-critical Converged infrastructure: a common modular infrastructure, common network fabric, comprehensive cross-domain control, and comprehensive power and cooling management.
- Business Message: Modernise your mission-critical environment to become more flexible, available and innovative. Meet demanding SLAs and accelerate service delivery, while reducing costs and simplifying management.
- Technical Message: HP’s global expert services help customers of all sizes migrate, modernise, support and protect their mission-critical Converged Infrastructure. HP brings together all the IT elements – including servers, storage, software and networking – which simplify, consolidate and automate mission-critical environments.
2. Unified blade architecture
Consolidate all applications and architectures, from x86 to Superdome, on a common platform with common infrastructure management.
- Business Message: Protect investments as a data centre grows from a single server blade up to HP Superdome 2. The unified blade architecture is less costly to manage, with common spares and common management tools.
- Technical Message: Simplify and standardise the way you build, manage, troubleshoot and service systems. Manage everything as one, and add new capacity in seconds with common processes, parts and tools.
3. FlexFabric
Flexibly scale resources to meet any workload demand with the only system that independently scales I/O, memory and processors to precisely provision and repurpose capacity.
- Business Message: Robustly and cost-effectively scale and adapt mission-critical IT environments to meet the changing requirements of mission-critical workloads.
- Technical Message: The HP-unique Blade Link leverages Intel’s high-performance QPI link to build 4- and 8-socket blades from 2-socket building blocks with no wasted components. The Superdome 2 Crossbar fabric independently scales processors and I/O, while maintaining fully fault-tolerant connections through the fabric.
4. Always-on resiliency
HP is building on the resiliency heritage of Integrity, with more than 100 new innovations in resiliency. Examples are power-on-once technology, which ensures minimal planned downtime through online serviceability and single-click firmware upgrades, plus end-to-end transaction retry, which allows systems to self-heal through the analysis of fault data. The new Superdome 2 will have electrically isolated hard partitions for more robust virtualised environments.
- Business Message: Ensure global business continuity by completely minimising planned and unplanned downtime to support the mission-critical applications that drive your customers’ business.
- Technical Message: Integrity systems with HP-UX have the fastest failover in the market through Serviceguard and increased resiliency features, such as tool-free serviceability, so systems rarely have to be taken down for maintenance.
5. Matrix operating environment
Common management is delivered by Insight Dynamics. Automated infrastructure orchestration provisions systems in minutes, optimises in real time, enables mission-critical virtualisation, and provides and protects continuity of service.
- Business Message: Accelerate business outcomes by provisioning infrastructure for applications in minutes. Reduce costs of common data centre tasks by 40%, confidently optimise to instantly adjust to dynamic business demands in real time, and better protect and scale with mission-critical virtualisation.
- Technical Message: Automated provisioning drastically reduces application deployment time. You can quickly provision the infrastructure required for an application, and automatically allocate resources to any application based on business priorities.
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