HP (NYSE:HPQ) introduced their new portfolio especially designed for the hyper-scale cloud data-centers. HP said, their new portfolio will create differentiated services, increase the speed and will drive business growth.
In a statement the company said, they are working in partnership with Chinese ODM Foxconn and have developed a minimalist bare-iron design and a standard management interface. The company also said, the design comes with a range of configuration depending on the user’s workloads. The company also confirmed that, for the first time they have followed the industry specification defined by Open Compute Project and Open Networking Foundation. The Open Compute Project was founded by Facebook in 2012 with the participation of different silicon vendors, networking companies and server manufacturer.
In a statement Alain Andreoli, Senior Vice President and General Manager of HP Servers said, “The business success of today’s service providers is directly correlated with their ability to cost-effectively acquire and operate their IT infrastructure to meet customer demand”. He then added, “Built on open-design principles with extreme scalability, HP Cloudline servers help service providers reduce infrastructure cost and accelerate service delivery to improve business performance”.
HP has also confirmed that the server can run on OpenStack. Tech experts are saying that, this server will help HP to present itself to all audience like enterprises and service providers. It was previously reported that, in March HP advanced its Helion portfolio by comprising pre-configured managed virtual private cloud platforms based on OpenStack, which is commonly found in large enterprises. According to market experts this will make the company more flexible to vendors.
In a statement Andrew Butler, Vice President of Gartner, Inc. an American information technology research and advisory firm said, “Lack of flexibility initially created the opportunity for companies like Quanta and Lenovo in the cloud provider segment”. Then he added, “They weren’t willing to customise their hardware a decade or even five years ago, and they were selling at a premium, but the cloud service providers themselves will be a much bigger audience than ever before given all of this outsourcing of workloads to the cloud”.
He also said, “Look at a company like Lenovo. They’re a hybrid vendor that owns a well-respected portfolio of existing infrastructure technology, in house-skills and heritage from IBM, but they also bring their supply chain from the far-east that will put traditional western vendors under some serious pressure”.
