This is the first time in around 10 years that HP Business Critical servers have brought a new Integrity server product line to market. This is not unusual in this complex mission-critical environment, especially where stability and “always on data” is a prerequisite. Mission-critical datacenters servers and applications cannot go down and because of that, the accumulation of legacy infrastructure increases, so making it harder and harder to maintain over time.
One of the key principles that HP is now starting to deliver upon is a consolidated view of how to improve datacenter management and how to better tackle the problems around applications, servers, storage, networks. This principle of converging all datacenter elements together became the core around how the messages were crafted for the new HP Integrity blades.
The launch of the new mission-critical Integrity server’s marks one of the first chapters in the Converged Infrastructure story. The Integrity servers are a great example where HP brings a wide variety of common elements together into 4 distinct Converged Infrastructure areas:
- A common modular Infrastructure
- A common network fabric
- Comprehensive cross-domain control
- Comprehensive power and cooling management
There is now a common network fabric where you can wire systems once, and all subsequent rewiring can be accomplished virtually. Always-on resiliency provides a secure, optimised environment that mitigates risk.