Cloud Computing: HP launches new products for software-defined datacentres
June 10, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
Analyst firm Gartner recently predicted datacentre hardware spending on new types of products and big data deployments will reach $9.4bn in 2014. At HP’s annual conference, Bill Veghte, executive vice-president and general manager for Enterprise Group of HP said: “As customers look ahead, they need business outcome-driven infrastructure that enables the New Style of IT.”
Big data, mobility, security and cloud computing are forcing organisations to rethink their approach to technology, causing them to invest heavily in IT infrastructure, according to HP. The services it has launched are aimed at reducing IT complexity, Veghte said. Among the new products launched is HP Apollo, a new family of HPC solutions to address power and datacentre efficiency challenges…
The Apollo servers combine a modular datacentre design with air and liquid-cooling techniques for performance efficiency. HP claims it provides up to four times more performance per square foot than standard rack servers…
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