HP expands Blade System portfolio

HP has expanded the HP Blade System portfolio with an 'Integrity' blade designed to handle memory-intensive data centre workloads while helping businesses lower cost, save energy and space, and decrease deployment time.

As the company's first four-socket integrity server blade, the HP Integrity BL870c combines the modular infrastructure and energy efficiency of HP BladeSystem with the business-critical capabilities of Integrity servers.

The new server can help businesses of all sizes realise power savings of up to 25 per cent. Space requirements also are reduced because 2.5 times as many BL870c server blades fit into the same space as a comparable rackmount configuration.

To help take the guesswork out of building an Integrity blade solution, HP also has created Solution Blocks for its Integrity servers. These HP-tested configurations allow customers and resellers to quickly deploy business-critical applications on the HP Blade System.

The HP Integrity BL870c addresses more application workload demands by expanding the Integrity server blade portfolio for the HP BladeSystem c3000 and c7000 enclosures. 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.

HP Solution Blocks for Integrity server blades simplify the deployment of enterprise applications and optimise the use of the HP BladeSystem enclosure to save time and money. Each Solution Block includes combinations of Integrity blades, application software, HP storage and interconnect technology - all HP-approved based on best practices or testing.

Initial Solution Blocks ( www.hp.com/go/solutionblocks ) available for Integrity blades include enterprise resource planning, service-oriented architecture, application integration and product data management.