HP simplifies virtualization with expanded ConvergedSystem offering

BANGALORE, INDIA: HP has expanded its HP ConvergedSystem portfolio to help clients accelerate business innovation with integrated IT systems purpose-built for the next generation of computing.

It delivers the industry's first integrated IT systems engineered from the ground up for convergence, helping clients to reduce IT complexity and costs, while increasing performance for leading applications. They unify the servers, storage, networking, software and services clients need to power their IT infrastructure in systems that are easy to procure, manage and support. HP ConvergedSystem products are performance-optimized for key workloads like virtualization, hosted desktops and big data.

Delivering a total systems experience that dramatically simplifies IT, HP ConvergedSystem offerings are operational in as few as 20 days of ordering, so IT can deploy applications faster and accelerate time to value. For example, IDC recently found that converged systems can cut time to market for new services in half, reduce downtime by 50-75 percent and reduce IT infrastructure cost by up to 50 percent.

The new preconfigured workload-optimized systems include:

· HP ConvergedSystem for Virtualization, which provides the fastest path to virtualization with an easy-to-implement integrated system that increases performance and availability of virtual environments. The modular system scales computing resources easily to meet business demands and provides an on-ramp to cloud.

· HP ConvergedSystem for Hosted Desktops, which increases employee productivity with the industry's first hosted desktop system, powered by HP Moonshot, to deliver a full-powered PC experience for knowledge workers, including business graphics and multimedia content.

· HP ConvergedSystem for Vertica, which helps organizations reduce costs and quickly turn data into business insight by augmenting existing enterprise data warehouse environments to scale analytics at high speed.

The new HP ConvergedSystem offerings are hyper-efficient systems designed to meet enterprise-grade requirements. Based on best practice configurations, they deliver risk-free performance-tuned, pretested and validated systems "out of the box." In addition, HP ensures system performance with built in deployment and patch management.

The quickest, simplest path to virtualization

To help clients simplify virtualization deployments, HP is announcing two new converged systems for virtualization. HP ConvergedSystem 300 (midsized business or enterprises with smaller virtualization needs) and HP ConvergedSystem 700 (enterprises with large and demanding data centers) enable clients to:

· Speed time to value for virtualization deployments with integrated systems that deliver virtualization software from Microsoft and VMware, as well as supporting infrastructure in complete, all-in-one systems that are quick and easy to install and use. 

· Increase operational efficiency, while lowering costs. HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Virtualization delivers double the performance at a 25 percent lower entry price than competitive offerings and HP ConvergedSystem 700 for Virtualization enables clients to achieve three times the IT efficiency at up to 28 percent lower total cost of ownership.

First hosted desktop system tailor-made for knowledge workers

HP ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktops enables customers to increase employee productivity with the industry's first system architected to deliver a consistent, high-quality PC experience for remote and mobile knowledge workers. It delivers the business graphics and multimedia performance of a traditional desktop PC with six times faster graphics frames per second, compared to other virtual desktop infrastructure solutions.

Big data analytics system optimized for HP Vertica

HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Vertica helps clients to quickly turn big data into business insights with a holistic big data analytics system optimized for the HP Vertica Analytics Platform. Designed to augment existing enterprise data warehouses such as Teradata, the HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Vertica lets clients quickly and easily load, explore, analyze and monetize structured, unstructured and semistructured data from a single system. 

HP ConvergedSystem products are backed by services that span the IT life cycle-from consulting and implementation to support-to provide customers with a total, simplified system experience, freeing up IT resources to focus on creating business value.

HP ConvergedSystem for Virtualization and HP ConvergedSystem for Hosted Desktops are currently available worldwide.

HP ConvergedSystem for Vertica is planned to be available in Spring 2014.

Pricing for HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Virtualization starts at $136,600. Pricing for HP ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktops starts at $137,999 for 180 users.