HP has expanded the HP BladeSystem portfolio with an Integrity blade designed to handle memory-intensive data center workloads while helping businesses lower cost, save energy and space, and decrease deployment time.
Designed and developed by the HP research and development team, HP Integrity BL870c is the first four-socket server blade that combines the modular infrastructure and energy efficiency of HP BladeSystem with the business-critical capabilities of Integrity servers.
“With the introduction, of the BL870c, we can now address the broadest spectrum of workloads with a blade infrastructure in the industry,” said Santanu Ghose, Country Manager, Business Critical Systems, Hewlett-Packard India . “This server combines the benefit of blades around cost, time and energy with the proven scalability & availability of Integrity systems. Our commitment to innovation is unmatched and we'll continue our 'blade everything' strategy where it helps customers align their technology with the needs of their business”.
The new server can help businesses of all sizes realize power savings of up to 25 percent. Space requirements also are reduced because 2.5 times as many BL870c server blades fit into the same space as a comparable rackmount configuration.
To help take the guesswork out of building an Integrity blade solution, HP also has created Solution Blocks for its Integrity servers. These HP-tested configurations allow customers and resellers to quickly deploy business critical applications on the HP
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Business-critical computing advantages
The HP Integrity BL870c addresses more application workload demands by expanding the Integrity server blade portfolio for the HP BladeSystem c3000 and c7000 enclosures. The addition of the BL870c to the HP BladeSystem family will allow businesses to deploy and manage Integrity or ProLiant servers in a single blade enclosure with a set of common management tools.
The BL870c builds on the strength of the BL860c – HP's first c-Class Integrity blade –offering twice the processing power and twice the memory capacity. It provides the choice of Microsoft Windows, HP-UX 11i v2, HP-UX 11i v3, OpenVMS, RedHat or SuSE operating systems. Its large memory capacity makes the BL870c well-suited for high-performance computing applications. Businesses requiring the highest levels of availability and greater scalability can better streamline operational expenses to drive business growth with the BL870c.
HP Solution Blocks Simplify Deployment
HP Solution Blocks for Integrity server blades simplify the deployment of enterprise applications and optimize the use of the HP BladeSystem enclosure to save time and money. Each Solution Block includes combinations of Integrity blades, application software, HP storage and interconnect technology – all HP-approved based on best practices or testing.
Initial Solution Blocks available for Integrity blades include enterprise resource planning (ERP), service-oriented architecture (SOA), application integration and product data management.
More information about HP Solution Blocks for Integrity blades is available at www.hp.com/go/solutionblocks, while more information about the HP Integrity blade portfolio is available at www.hp.com/go/integrityblade.
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