Data Centers help customers manage business growth.
Press Release Summary:
Built to order, HP Performance Optimized Data Centers, HP PODs, support more than 3,500 compute nodes, or 12,000 large form factor hard drives in 40 ft shipping container, delivering equivalent of 4,000 plus sq-ft of typical data center capacity. Data centers offer flexible configurations optimized for power or density, which enables customers to upgrade or extend capacity of physical infrastructures to meet specific business needs.
Original Press Release:
HP Helps Customers Manage Business Growth with Compact, Shipped-to-order Data Centers
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 16, 2008 - HP todayannounced a container-based data center offering that enables customers around the globe to rapidly expand their data center capacity in support of their IT and business growth.
Keeping pace with the demands of technology growth in the data center and rising
energy costs is a constant challenge as companies seek to deploy the latest technologies.
The extended time and significant costs required to update or expand data centers make
these challenges even more complex. As the first offering of its kind designed specifically to deliver a wide range of industrystandard technology, the HP Performance Optimized Data Center (HP POD) addresses these challenges by:
o Supporting a wide variety of HP and third-party technology, providing customers with
more freedom to match their technology environments.
o Providing customers with more density than competitive offerings by supporting more
than 3,500 compute nodes, or 12,000 large-form-factor hard drives, in a 40-foot
shipping container.
o Delivering the equivalent of 4,000-plus square feet of typical data center capacity that ships within six weeks of the customer's order.
o Offering flexible configurations optimized for power or density, which enables
customers to quickly upgrade or extend the capacity of their physical infrastructures to meet their specific business needs.
o Providing HP POD Infrastructure Services, including assessment, preparation and
deployment services, as well as data center design and planning through EYP Mission
Critical Facilities, a company of HP.
"Customers have more flexibility to balance their capital expenditures and operating
expenses while quickly and seamlessly meeting their needs for additional capacity with
HP PODs," said Christine Martino, vice president and general manager, Scalable
Computing and Infrastructure Organization, HP. "HP's innovative POD approach allows
customers to deploy world-class, scalable, highly power-efficient data center resources
quickly and ships in just six weeks."
Learn more about HP PODs
HP PODs are built to order and delivered through HP Factory Express, HP's customization, configuration and integration services organization. HP PODs can deliver
a wide range of servers, storage and networking equipment, ready to power on at the customer's site.
o More information about the HP POD products, software and services is available at
hp.com/products/pod.
o An HP POD virtual video tour is available at http://www.hp.com/go/pod.
o Behind-the-scenes commentary from the HP POD design team is available on the new
Server Reality Check blog communities.hp.com/online/blogs/reality-checkservers-
insight.
o Additional information about HP's scalable computing and cloud infrastructure
portfolio is available at hp.com/go/massivescaleout.
About HP
HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from
individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing,
personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world's
largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $110.4 billion for the four fiscal quarters
ended April 30, 2008. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at
www.hp.com.
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