HP is offering upgraded carrier-grade servers and storage arrays designed to help telecommunications companies and service providers more easily manage the convergence of telephony and IT. The upgraded ProLiant systems are based on Intels Nehalem EP processors, and can support a variety of OSes, including Windows, Linux, HP-UX and Solaris. Another Integrity blade system is run on Intels Itanium chip. The two arrays come out of HPs StorageWorks group.Hewlett-Packard is looking to help telecommunications companies and
service providers manage the ongoing convergence of IT and telephony.
HP June 24 rolled out several new versions of its carrier-grade
hardware products that offer NEBS (Network Equipment-Building System)
compliance in a flexible, cost-effective package, according to Chuck
Smith, vice president of BladeSystem business development at HP.
With expertise in both telecom and IT, HP provides a family of
servers that combines the best of both worlds, Smith said in a
statement.
The enhanced products including the BladeSystem Carrier-Grade
platform, a ProLiant carrier-grade rack-mount server and a
carrier-grade storage array, and can run in both telephony and IT
networks, according to HP.
HP is offering carrier-grade versions of two of its ProLiant servers running on Intels quad-core Xeon 5500 Series Nehalem EP processors.
The rack-mount ProLiant DL380 G6 server offers twice the performance of
previous versions and improves energy efficiency. The carrier-grade
version includes two 2.53-GHz Xeons.
The ProLiant BL460c G6
carrier-grade server blade also offers twice the performance of
previous systems and enhanced energy efficiency. With two 2.53-GHz
Intel quad-core processors, the blade system enables a single HP
BladeSystem c7000-cg enclosure to support up to 16 bladesor 32 Intel
quad-core processorsin a 10U (17.5-inch) enclosure.
The Integrity BL860c carrier-grade server blade, powered by Intels
Itanium processor, is designed to offer high scalability and
performance for such applications as text messaging. The server blade
is designed for the HP c7000-cg enclosure.
The platforms support a number of operating environments, including
Microsoft Windows, Linux, HPs Unix variant, HP-UX, OpenVMS and Sun
Microsystems Solaris. In addition, HP will distribute and support
Suns Solaris 10 on the ProLiant and BladeSystem platforms.
HPs StorageWorks MSA2000fc G2 and MSA2000sa G2 carrier-grade
storage arrays support high availability and data protection through
such features as snapshots for point-in-time copies of data. They also
support up to 24 146 gigabyte SAS disks (3.5 terabytes) in a 2U
(3.5-inch) enclosure. They also offer businesses a choice of Fibre
Channel or SAS connectivity.