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Follow UsBANGALORE, INDIA: HP today announced the launch of ProLiant generation 8 (Gen8) servers.
The new server line is a result of a $300 million, two-year programme called Project Voyager, which has over 900 patents filed till date, and a new systems architecture called HP ProActive Insight architecture, which will span the entire HP Converged Infrastructure.
“The skyrocketing cost of operations in the data centre is unsustainable, and enterprises are looking to HP to help solve this problem,” said Vikram K, director, Industry Standard Servers, HP India. “We are delivering innovative intelligence technologies that enable servers to virtually take care of themselves, allowing data centre staff to devote more time to business innovation.”
Project Voyager is the third phase of HP’s multi-year transformation plan for the server market, which began in November 2011, with Project Moonshot. Project Moonshot changed how servers are built for extreme-low-energy computing.
Project Odyssey, phase two, redefined the future of mission-critical computing. With phase three, Project Voyager, HP automates every aspect of the server life cycle.
According to the company, ProLiant Gen8’s ProActive Insight architecture comprises powerful hardware and software that delivers server life cycle automation. At the same time, it provides continuous intelligence on server health, power usage and other important diagnostics. As a result, online system updates can be deployed three times faster, with as much as 93 per cent less downtime.
The new HP ProLiant Gen8 platform is expected to ship worldwide in late March 2012. Starting prices will range from $1,723 to $2,878 and vary based on configurations.
This includes HP ProLiant ML tower servers for remote and branch offices and versatile HP ProLiant DL rack-mount servers that deliver a balance of efficiency and performance. Also included are HP ProLiant BL blade servers for cloud-ready Converged Infrastructure and HP ProLiant SL scalable system servers built for web, cloud and massively scaled environments.