As many as 80% of x86 generation servers deployed today are out of warranty and beyond full life cycle according to HP and are ready to benefit from a new HP server upgrade.
Skyrocketing IT management and administrative costs and the need to reduce power and cooling costs in the server room are one of the biggest issues affecting IT today. In addition, following recent budget cuts or freezes, companies are running applications on old servers that are out of warranty and have reached the end of their useful life. This can result in sleepless nights for the IT department as they are tasked with running and maintaining applications on clapped out systems. The HP Gen8 provides organisations with embedded automation and an intelligent system that helps to cur lifecycle operation tasks, reducing overheads and downtime costs.
The new HP ProLiant Gen8 Server features:
- Industry’s first HP Location Discover Services delivering 1.7x compute per watt
- 66% faster problem resolution with industry’s first comprehensive, cloud-based management and support portal.
- Features 3 x administrator productivity improvement with integrated Lifecycle Automation
- 6x performance increase for demanding workloads through dynamic workload acceleration
- More performance in the same power and space with automated energy optimisation
- 40% faster problem resolution with Proactive Service and Support
Here are some features and benefits of the Gen8 systems
Features | Benefits |
Save Money | With energy efficient systems and intelligence with the HP ProLiant Gen8 you not only save time but money on your energy bills. In addition, you will also save thousands in OPEX – total annual energy savings from a HP ProLiant Gen8 equals $2,750 (around £1,760) savings per 10kW rack with new high efficiency HP Platinum plus power supplies, 3D Sea of Sensors, and HP SmartMemory. |
Faster System Deployment | HP ProLiant Gen8 systems provide 3x faster deployment with a fully integrated system and OS configuration tool that eliminates 45% of the steps. |
Reduction in Workload | In data centres of today your life is harder than it should be. All too often your day is a steady stream of error alerts, system events, installation and update issues and calls to support desks. In order to respond to these problems, your IT team needs an intelligent server that helps to eliminate tedious and time consuming tasks. This is where the new HP ProLiant family with HP ProActive Insight architechture comes in. This architecture, embedded inside each next-generation ProLiant Server, gives you deep insight into your IT environment and a rich set of capabilities that automate and simplify system provisioning, troubleshooting and software updates. With HP Intelligent provisioning everything you need is built in to the system for painless system setup and deployment. |
Intelligence | HP ProLiant Gen8 servers are so intelligent they help to eliminate your tedious tasks, they turbo charge application performance, reclaim space and stranded power and redefine the service experience. |
Automated | HP Active Health – your 24/7 mission control for automated monitoring, diagnostics and alerting. HP Smart Update helps to schedule, stage and deploy updates across 100s of servers with a simple click. The HP ProLiant Gen8 also adapts for workload uptime and analyses workload data and adapts to real time to optimise system performance and efficiency without involving any IT staff. |
Time Saving | Gen8 servers are so intelligent that the redefine the server experience. In today’s data centres, too much of your time is lost on IT support issues. When a system goes down and service calls begin, you might spend hours digging through spreadsheets and log files trying to find and communicate dozen of bits of data to a support desk. By taking advantage of the rich insight that is collected by the HP ProActive insight architecture, the ProLiant Gen8 helps you proactively resolve issues, accelerate problem resolution and gain valuable insights into your data centre operations. The HP Gen8 offers you to experience the industry’s first cloud-based IT management and support portal. With Proactive Services which help to improve system uptime and performance with innovative new services based on the HP ProActive Insight Architecture. The Gen8 also offers the HP ServiceOne Advantage helping you to leverage local expertise backed by HP’s global resources. |
Intuitively Designed | The Gen8 systems have great system Architecture and Design, the servers are so intuitive because they were designed for the way you work. |
Built in Quality | From the moment you see your first HP ProLiant Gen8 server emerge out of the box you will feel, see and sense the built in quality. The design philosophy has been based on HP’s “Client-2-Innovation” design philosophy, HP engineers and developers created more than 150 innovations that can help you get important tasks done more simply, reliably and with complete confidence. The next generation servers were designed with the way that you work in mind. |
Attention to Detail | Many of our clients have trusted ProLiant servers for years and will be extremely familiar with the consistent experience and will be appreciative of the attention to detail of these fantastic new additional features. |
Innovative Design | The HP Gen8 servers are built with over 150 design innovations, ProLiant Gen8 servers help to eliminate common problems that can cause failures, data loss and system downtime. HP ProLiant Gen8 Servers with ProActive Insight architecture are able to learn, connect and adapt. Constantly and proactively taking action to improve administrator productivity, dynamically accelerate workloads, optimize energy consumptions and ultimately reduce down time. |
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