HP announced new innovations that strengthen its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio. At its yearly Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas, it unveiled a new Blade System, Converged Storage and Networking solutions, as well as services that accelerate return on IT investment and enable customers to refocus resources from operations to innovation.

The company said significant shifts in the IT industry, including cloud, big data, social media and mobility, have added new challenges for chief information officers in meeting customer, partner and employee expectations while aligning IT and enterprise goals with limited funding.

The HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio addresses these growing challenges and leads the industry in deploying and managing large-scale infrastructures.

“HP pioneered the concept of a converged infrastructure, and we were the first to deliver it,” HP Enterprise Group executive vice-president David Donatelli said. “We continue to innovate and extend the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to deliver the benefits that our business and government customers expect from us.”

The company launched its new HP Blade System c7000 Platinum enclosure, a key solution within the industry-leading HP ProLiant portfolio, that dramatically improves performance, efficiency and availability of resources in virtualized and cloud environments.

To help customers create an optimized, scalable wired and wireless infrastructure, HP is offering HP FlexNetwork Design and Validation and HP Wireless LAN Lifecycle Services. These services provide validated and interoperable high-level designs and device configurations based on proven HP FlexNetwork reference architectures.