HP Performance optimized data center improves operational efficiency

Hewlett-Packard announced today that companies around the world have chosen HP's performance-optimized data center (POD) to rapidly expand data center resources while maximizing efficiency.

On the basis of HP's converged infrastructure, HP POD supports rapid customer expansion to address the growing space, power, and cost challenges of data center expansion. HP's modular Datacenter products include HP Pod 20c, HP pod 40c and HP pod 240a. HP POD 240a, referred to as HP Ecopod, offers an extremely energy-efficient design that consumes 95% less energy than traditional data centers and reduces the initial data center capital costs by up to 75%.

US local governments save 6 million of dollars by making full use of resources

As the seat of the Texas State Paso (county) government, Paso City needs to consolidate its limited IT resources and ensure that it supports long-term development. The city chooses HP pod-hosted HP blade servers and storage to support IT operations in law enforcement, justice and administration, with a population of over 800,000.

HP designed the main data center in a 40-foot HP pod, and redesigned the existing county Failover center, which was made up of aging Dell and EMC hardware and software. The deployed HP Pod contains HP ProLiant bl460c G7 servers for greater efficiency and provides three-phase power supplies to ensure sufficient power to deliver to each rack.

By eliminating service overlap and consolidating IT departments, Paso's HP pod deployments have saved taxpayers nearly 6 million dollars. In recognition of the forward-looking thinking in this large-scale it deployment process, the municipal government received the Texas County Association's innovative Best Practice Award and City-County cooperation award.

"Paso's vision is to improve the technical use and efficiency of the joint Office user base," said David Garcia, director of Information Technology and project supervision in Paso County. With HP pod planning and deployment, HP helps our IT team implement highly available, modern data center facilities that benefit taxpayers through better public service delivery. ”

Integrate business units into a single platform

Skoda Power, a leading generation technology, product and service provider headquartered in Pearson, Czech Republic, recently deployed a 40-foot HP pod to improve computational performance and save energy.

When Skoda Power became a subsidiary of Doosan (an industrial facility company with subsidiaries in 33 countries and regions), the two companies needed to consolidate their IT infrastructure into a single shared platform. Skoda Power has selected HP pod with energy-efficient and sustainable benefits to provide fast, economical and flexible data center facilities. Compared to other solutions, water-cooled hp pod saves up to 40% power and delivers higher power capacity while reducing operating costs.

Increase capacity to enhance HPC competitiveness

An increasing number of research institutes have chosen HP POD to enhance its HPC performance with modular computing. In support of the super computer system in the Australian government's 1.1 billion Dollar Super Science Program (initiative), the Research institute Ivec deployed HP POD 20c to promote research in radio astronomy, nanotechnology, geoscience and other leading computing communities.

"In order to serve our user community effectively, we need computing facilities that can provide large-scale scale-out performance," said Andrew Rohl, executive director of Ivec. As we further develop technology and best practices to dramatically improve computational performance, HP's POD technology will help Australian research institutions to become more competitive on the global stage. ”

Similarly, the University of California, Los Angeles, expanded its virtual HPC cluster to install 1500 compute nodes-equivalent to 5000 square feet. In this way, the university currently saves nearly 198,000 dollars a year in power costs.