Server Infrastructure

Traditionally, infrastructures have been built the same way – many boxes, connected by miles of wires, maintained by lots of people. Typically, it can create problems in four areas:

• Cost – the infrastructure is expensive to buy and even more costly to run and maintain
• Time – productivity is low, downtime frequent and reaction to new opportunities, slow
• Change – people are inflexible, needing to grow or adapt; and processes complex
• Energy – Inefficient, power–hungry systems create rising electric bills and stress the power and air conditioning capacity of the site

In this “racked, stacked and wired” model, the bigger the infrastructure, the greater the pain.

A blade system tackles your problems by consolidating everything from the start, before your infrastructure grows out of control. Simple and convenient a blade system saves you time, money and power – while empowering change.

HP’s BladeSystem is an infrastructure in a box, with all the essentials to build and maintain your systems from start to finish. Inside, it can run your choice of thousands of applications, including Windows, Linux, and more, as well as supporting a combination of virtual machines, storage and server blade technologies.

Many of HP’s most popular products are now available as blades. Each blade is inserted into the BladeSystem enclosure, which provides redundancy, network connections and a more efficient shared power and cooling design.