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Follow UsBANGALORE, INDIA: HP announced ProLiant SL4500 server series is purpose built for big data environments.
As per the company, the server, which is built on HP's Converged Infrastructure, can save up to $1 million over three years.
The modular design of the HP ProLiant SL4500 server series offers varied compute and storage configurations. It also features HP SmartCache analytic. The HP ProLiant SL4500 server series also supports multiple Apache Hadoop vendors including Cloudera and Hortonworks, as well as additional software including OpenStack Cloud Software and MongoDB.
The HP ProLiant SL4500 Gen8 server series, with HP Smart Array technology, delivers industry-leading performance with a nearly seven times faster input/output operations per second (IOPS) than existing architectures, as per the company.
The new HP ProLiantSL4500 server series delivers storage density of up to 240 terabytes (TB) in a single 4.3-rack-unit (U) chassis, or 2.16 petabytes (PB) with nine servers in an industry-standard 42-U rack.
The latest member of the HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) family, the HP SL4500 server series is built with HP ProActive Insight Architecture.
HP also announced updates to its high-performance computing (HPC) portfolio, enabling clients to maximize the performance benefits of the latest processing technology from Intel and Nvidia.
The HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 server offers support up to eight Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors or eight Nvidia Kepler graphic processing units (GPUs) per server. The HP ProLiant SL270s and SL250s Gen8 servers now support the latest Nvidia Kepler GPUs and newly announced Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.
The HP ProLiant SL4500 server series in a single node configuration is available immediately worldwide for a starting price of $7,643.
The new HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 servers will be available next month, with for a starting price of $6,166. The HP ProLiant SL250s Gen8 servers will be available with Nvidia Kepler and Intel Xeon Phi processors early next year for a starting price of $5,659.