HP Middle East has unveiled a breakthrough blade architecture that can save customers in the Middle East region millions of dollars as they build out their data centers.
Three years in development, the HP BladeSystem c-Class marks a new standard in architecture technology, with innovations in virtualization, power and cooling, and system management capabilities that can reduce both operational and capital expenditure costs by 46 percent in a typical data center implementation.
The HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure features the world's fastest midplane at 5 terabytes per second of aggregate throughput and the first midplane to support 4X DDR InfiniBand®, the industry's fastest blade server interconnect, which delivers up to 20 gigabytes per second bandwidth in each direction.
In three industry firsts, the new HP BladeSystem enables users to wire computing resources once and change them on the fly, dynamically adjust power and cooling to reduce energy consumption, and increase administrative productivity up to tenfold.
The HP BladeSystem c-Class is also modular, allowing businesses of any size to start with HP ProLiant and Integrity servers, HP StorageWorks storage offerings as well as client blades and then flexibly add applications and third-party products to expand their data centers as needed.
With the new design, an average enterprise data center can realize over a three-year period: system acquisition cost savings of up to 41 percent; data center facilities cost savings of up to 60 percent; and initial system setup time cost savings of up to 96 percent.