http://media.marketwire.com/attachments/201111/38077_HP_S_B_RGB_72_SM.gifhttp://at.marketwire.com/accesstracking/AccessTrackingLogServlet?PrId=851137&ProfileId=051205&sourceType=1PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/13/12 -- HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced the industry's most self-sufficient line of servers -- the HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8).
HP ProLiant Gen8 servers are the result of a $300 million, two-year program called Project Voyager, the company's initiative to redefine data center economics by automating every aspect of the server life cycle. To date, Project Voyager has resulted in more than 900 patents filed and a new systems architecture called HP ProActive Insight architecture, which will span the entire HP Converged Infrastructure.
With intelligent technologies that automate tasks and significantly improve uptime, HP ProLiant Gen 8 with HP ProActive Insight architecture addresses the top concerns of enterprises. For example, in a typical 10,000-square-foot data center:
- Companies spend an average of $24 million over three years on manual operations to support servers.(1) HP ProLiant Gen8 triples administrator productivity by eliminating most manual operations such as server updates, which typically take five hours of administrator time per rack of servers. The industry-first HP Smart Update feature can perform the same update in 10 minutes or less.(2)
- Growing server energy and facilities expenses cost companies up to $29 million over three years.(1) HP ProLiant Gen8 features HP 3-D Sea of Sensors, an industry-first technology that identifies overutilized servers based on real-time location, power, workload and temperature data, increasing compute capacity per watt of energy by 70 percent.(3) HP 3-D Sea of Sensors also automates energy efficiency while eliminating 100 percent of manual configuration and inventory process errors.
- Unplanned downtime costs clients approximately $10 million an hour.(4) With industry-first HP Active Health and HP Insight Online technologies, HP ProLiant Gen8 is the only server that automatically analyzes its own health across 1,600 data points. Through self monitoring, self diagnosing and proactive support, clients can resolve unplanned downtime issues up to 66 percent faster.(5)
"The skyrocketing cost of operations in the data center is unsustainable, and enterprises are looking to HP to help solve this problem," said Mark Potter, senior vice president and general manager, Industry standard Servers and Software, HP. "We are delivering innovative intelligence technologies that enable servers to virtually take care of themselves, allowing data center staff to devote more time to business innovation."
Project Voyager is the third phase of HP's multiyear transformation plan for the server market, which began in November 2011 with Project Moonshot. Project Moonshot changed how servers are built for extreme-low-energy computing. Project Odyssey, phase two, redefined the future of mission-critical computing. With phase three, Project Voyager, HP automates every aspect of the server life cycle.
HP ProActive Insight architecture elevates customer experience
HP ProLiant Gen8's ProActive Insight architecture comprises powerful hardware and software that delivers server life cycle automation.