HP solutions for every SMB's need

BANGALORE, INDIA: Hewlett Packard (HP), which focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses, offers products and solutions that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure.

While HP enjoys a sizeable market share through its suite of products for large enterprises - ranging from servers & storage, security solutions, notebooks to printers, the growing and mid-sized businesses have not been neglected. HP has been aggressively targeting the small and medium business (SMB) market in India. The company has registered a growth of close to 60 percent in its business from the sector last year while its customized products in the SMB segment grew by 75 percent.

CIOL brings to you HP's new suite of solutions that caters specifically to the unique needs of midsize and growing businesses in India :

SMB product portfolio

HP C3000 BladeSystem - HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure for smaller technology sites, branch offices and remote locations. Implementation of the c3000 requires no special power, cooling or staff, easing midsize customers' ability to gain the benefits of a fully bladed environment. The HP BladeSystem c3000 reduces the time and cost it takes to deploy new business applications, enabling lean IT teams to deliver big business outcomes. Savings can then be redirected to other initiatives to fund future growth. Customers realize:

• Power and cooling savings of up to 30 percent
• Storage-area networking (SAN) connection costs reduced up to 60 percent
• Cabling reduced by up to 94 percent, which lowers costs and complexity; and
• Breakeven costs at three to five server blades

For the first time, customers with space and IT staffing constraints can take advantage of the business benefits that a bladed infrastructure delivers. The rack-based c3000 features a compact 10.5-inch-high design that fits up to eight blades, plugs into a standard 110 or 220-volt wall outlet and provides easy-to-connect networking. The tower version of the c3000, expected to be available in November 2008, is outfitted with the same features and will require only two square feet of floor space.

The c3000 has full compatibility with the existing line of HP BladeSystem c-Class servers and network connectivity options. It also supports the HP ProLiant, Integrity and StorageWorks server and storage blades.

HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage (AiO) Systems

The HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage Systems (AiOs) are an unbelievably simple standards-based family of storage products that combine affordable, integrated network attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN) and data protection functions under a single management umbrella.

Designed specifically for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), the HP AiOs are the industry’s first easy-to-use, multi-function storage offerings that enable SMB customers to store, share, manage and protect rapidly growing pools of application and file data.

Reducing complexity with integrated functionality: The intuitive HP All-in-One Storage Manager displays Using the HP AiO, customers with little or no storage experience can become experts in application and file data management, automating storage management tasks such as logical unit number provisioning, volume and capacity management, and setting up RAID stripe sets and snapshots.

storage use and data protection in an application-centric framework that hides the complexities traditionally associated with storage. In fewer than 10 clicks, customers can fully set up shared storage for Exchange and begin actively serving files, expanding data areas, implementing disk and tape backup policies and creating end-user file shares.

Data protection is another core aspect of the HP AiO, and administrators can implement flexible data protection policies for different data stores. Snapshots provide fast and easy backup and restore enabling roll-back in the case of problems. HP has integrated a full version of HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express Software into the HP AiO Storage Manager to enable data backup and recovery from tape, virtual tape, optical or external disk on the network.

Easy to deploy, manage and scale: The HP AiO uses the iSCSI interface and can be installed on existing TCP/IP networks, while standard hardware and drive enclosures ensure easy support for future growth. Shared storage for growing application servers enables efficient use of capacity and allows end-users to maximize investments in additional capacity while allowing for shorter backup windows.

The HP AiO runs Microsoft Windows® Storage Server 2003 R2, which is a dedicated and optimized file and print server that provides customers with improved manageability, enhanced end-user productivity and capabilities to meet the needs of branch offices and SMBs. Additionally, the HP AiO includes “best practice” recommendations to automate tasks, speed up deployment and improve application performance via data migration tools for Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server 2005.

Designed specifically for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), the HP AIOs are the industry's first easy-to-use, multi-function storage offerings that enable SMB customers to store, share, manage and protect rapidly growing pools of application and file data.

 New set of storage products for midsize and growing businesses

HP StorageWorks has released an entire range of new storage offerings specifically designed for midsize and growing businesses, helping them accelerate growth, mitigate risk and reduce operating costs. The Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) products and a suite of entry-level disk arrays with enterprise-class features helps growing businesses more effectively, centralize storage to lower costs, increase administrator efficiency and reduce business downtime.

The HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400) launched recently, offers a combination of high-performance and availability features, virtualization capabilities and advanced provisioning software. The product makes it ideal for midsize businesses that want to cost-effectively manage large amounts of data in a SAN environment without investing in deep storage experience.

The EVA4400 has key virtualization features previously available only on high-end arrays, at a price designed for midsize businesses. Specifically, the EVA4400 features a dual-redundant hardware architecture that supports local and remote replication software. This eliminates single points of failure and helps ensure maximum uptime.

The recently launched HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array (MSA2000) family is composed of low-cost Fibre Channel and iSCSI disk arrays for highly available, storage area networks (SAN) that is designed for virtualized server environments. The easy-to-use, enterprise-class systems is an ideal solution for their remote office, departmental, secondary and tertiary storage needs.

New integrity blade ideal for businesses with large data center workloads

HP has expanded its BladeSystem portfolio with an Integrity blade 'BL870c' designed to handle memory-intensive data center workloads while helping businesses lower cost, save energy and space, and decrease deployment time. Named 'HP Integrity BL870c', it is designed and developed to address more application workload demands. With HP BladeSystem c3000 and c7000 enclosures, this integrity blade server is the first four-socket server blade that combines the modular infrastructure and energy efficiency of HP BladeSystem with the business-critical capabilities. 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.

"With the introduction, of the BL870c, we can now address the broadest spectrum of workloads with a blade infrastructure in the industry," says 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 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.

HP Integrity rx2660

The HP Integrity rx2660 is the lowest-priced Integrity rack-mount server in the country and is the most flexible and versatile unit in its server class. The new rx2660 is the first Integrity model of entry-class server that will handle robust application tier workloads and is versatile enough for porting, application serving, testing and development. The new HP-UX 11i v3 operating system delivers the highest business value and lowest cost of ownership for enterprise UNIX. HP-UX11i v3 offers industry-leading, mission-critical virtualization capabilities, helping customers pool computing resources to increase server utilization and reduce costs, while improving performance and availability. HP-UX 11i v3 is designed to effectively manage over 100 million zettabytes of storage (1 zettabyte = 1 billion terabytes).