Build an Efficient, Flexible Infrastructure with Blade Servers

BLADE SERVERS: Slicing Through Data Center Inefficiencies In this tech dossier, Slicing through Data Center Inefficiencies, you'll learn about the advantages of HP BladeSystem with Intel technology, and the technologies behind this market leading solution. You will find valuable information on how to build your way to a converged infrastructure, while freeing up resources so your business can operate more cost effectively and efficiently. »	IDC Research: The Business Value of Blades The IDC Business Value of Blade white paper examines how midsize companies spanning the education, healthcare, media, retail, research, and telecommunications (service provider) industries were able to reduce their annual IT infrastructure cost per user by almost 25 percent by migrating to a blade platform. IDC estimates that over a three-year period, the companies in the study saw their implementation of a bladed infrastructure deliver a return on investment (ROI) of over 250 percent. »
HP CloudSystem Matrix: Building a Private Cloud This Illuminata Spotlight paper, authored by Jonathan Eunice, Founder and Principal IT Advisor at Illuminata, discusses HP BladeSystem Matrix, a ready-to-run IT infrastructure, and its use as an out-of-the-box platform for private clouds suited to enterprise IT. »	Blade Servers: Easier Management, Better Power Usage and Quicker ROI Blade servers offer a number of advantages over traditional tower and rack-mount servers. The blade servers modular, future-proof design provides scalability and allows you to build and grow your infrastructure over time. It optiizes the use of physical space and requires 40 percent less power consumption1 vs. traditional infrastructure. »
Blade Servers: A Cost-Effective, Change-Ready Solution Blade servers significantly ease the management burden, via unified system management controls for groups of servers, storage and networking. According to IDC, companies that moved to HP BladeSystem spent 50 percent less money on hardware, and found that it reduced set-up and configuration time by 46 percent. »	Managing at a Higher Level For years, it’s been clear that to make systems fundamentally more manageable, you have to build manageability in from the get-go. It’s also been clear that no amount of hardware sensing or firmware updating is enough. We must move to a higher level of management-one focused on business applications and delivered service levels. »
5 Myths of Cloud Computing This white paper separates fact from fiction, reality from myth, and, in doing so, will aide senior IT executives as they make decisions around cloud computing. While dispelling cloud computing myths, we will answer tough questions: How hard is it to adopt a private or hybrid cloud? How difficult is it to maintain and secure a cloud? How will the cloud transform my business? »	The Business Value of Blade Servers This IDC Executive Brief summarizes a study of how midsize companies spanning the education, healthcare, media, retail, research, and telecommunications (service provider) industries were able to reduce their annual IT infrastructure cost per user by almost 25 percent by migrating to a blade platform. IDC estimates that over a three-year period, the companies in the study saw their implementation of a bladed infrastructure deliver a return on investment (ROI) of over 250 percent. »
HP CloudSystem Matrix and HP 3PAR Utility Storage When you deploy HP CloudSystem Matrix with 3PAR as the back-end storage, you can quickly and easily roll out Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) based on templates from a single management console, as well as a host of other benefits. Download this paper to learn more. »	HP BladeSystem: Enabling the Efficient Data Center Blade servers, storage, and networking are the new face of modular, flexible, efficient IT infrastructure. This Illuminata Spotlight discusses the most popular blade infrastructure solution, HP BladeSystem. »