Server evolution continues at HP

INDIA: HP announced a new portfolio of HP ProLiant Generation 9 (Gen9) Servers that it claims, will help customers reduce cost and complexity, accelerate IT service delivery and enable business growth.

It adds that with new technology features and workload-optimized design, the new server portfolio advances HP’s vision for compute, the future of data center technology.

IT organizations—under increasing pressure to quickly and efficiently deliver more applications and services, as well as store and deliver exponentially increasing amounts of data while reducing costs—are constrained by traditional data center and server architectures, a press note stressed.

HP says that its new HP ProLiant Gen9 Servers are designed to address these challenges, delivering flexible, scalable computing resources that are aligned to companies’ business goals.

The servers, HP explains, are optimized for convergence, cloud and software-defined environments, and feature new technology innovations such as:

"The rise of mobile, cloud, social and big data is driving the need for a new approach to the data center and its processing engine—the server—to enable successful business outcomes,” said Vikram K, director, HP Servers, HP India.

“HP created the x86 server market 25 years ago, and we have led this market ever since with innovations that have dramatically transformed the data center, such as HP Moonshot and HP Apollo. Today, we’re setting the stage for the next quarter century with HP ProLiant Gen9 Servers and compute, which combines the best of traditional IT and cloud environments to enable a truly software-defined enterprise.”

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