HP launches New Blade Technology

Bangalore, June 21 (UNI) Technology solutions provider, HP, has unveiled a breakthrough blade architecture that can save customers millions of Dollars as they build out their data centres.

In development for the last three years, the HP BladeSystem c-Class leapfrogs the competition with innovations in virtualisation, power and cooling, and system management capabilities that could reduce both operational and capital expenditure costs by 46 per cent in a typical data centre implementation, a HP release here said today.

The c-Class server met the demands of the Indian CIOs-both big and small enterprises across industry sectors. The launch of HP BladeSystem c-Class portfolio was a key delivery against HP's Adaptive Infrastructure offering, which helped customers move toward automated, ''lights-out'' computing environments that lowered the cost of IT operations and delivered higher quality of service, improved performance and increased agility.

The new blade architecture delivered the future of business computing-Rethinking approaches to today's most pressing data centre challenges. HP had focused its HP BladeSystem innovations on three key areas: virtualisation, power and cooling, and system management.

''HP is pioneering the effort to offer more flexibility and choice to customers to succeed in today's the dynamic marketplace.

The new HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture is a bold, modular design that integrates the essential components of the next generation data centre inside one, consolidated building block of infrastructure,'' the release said, quoting Mr Rajesh Dhar, Country Manager, Industry Standard Systems, HP India.

''With the new design, an average enterprise data centre can realise over a three-year period: system acquisition cost savings of up to 41 per cent; data centre facilities cost savings of up to 60 per cent; and initial system setup time cost savings of up to 96 per cent,'' he added.

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