HP (Hewlett-Packard) ProLiant Plus Server User Manual


 
Sharpen your IT with HP BladeSystem
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Why HP BladeSystem
BladeSystem is an infrastructure in a box proven to save time,
power and money in data centres large and small.
Reduced costs—A universal infrastructure that saves time and
money on acquisition, installation, conguration, power,
integration and day-to-day operations. With HP BladeSystem
your customers can save up to 60% of their energy costs
and reduces facilities costs by around 25% and capital
costs by 36%.
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Simplify your IT—All devices are consolidated and connected
into a common infrastructure managed by common
automation tools to reduce effort and time for all operations.
HP BladeSystem costs up to 90% less to deploy.
Adapting IT—HP BladeSystem is modular and ready now
to take advantage of future technologies in computing,
networking, management and storage. The blading concept
extends across customer infrastructures to transition more of
their existing IT resources to a blade architecture that goes
beyond just servers to include storage and networking. HP
offers the widest choice with nine servers and numerous
networking and storage options. There’s a blade offering for
every market.
Application availability—HP BladeSystem servers and storage
run all applications developed for the following operating
systems: Microsoft
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Windows
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, HP-UX, Linux, Open VMS,
Solaris and NetWare on a variety of Integrity and ProLiant
server blades.
HP ProLiant Plus
Promotions
* IDC White Paper, ‘Forecasting Total Cost of Ownership for Initial Deployment of
Server Blades’, June 2006
Contents:
Promotional Offers—
December 2008
• HP ProLiant Plus Promotion
• HP Free Second Processor Offer
• Free Insight Control Offer
• Marketing support
• HP BladeSystem
Channel Promotions
• HP Accelerate
• Reseller demo programme
New 0% Lease Offer
HP Insight Control
HP BladeSystem
HP Disaster Recovery Solutions
HP Care Pack
HP TopValue Promotions
Useful TopValue Tools
SmartQuote
HP ProLiant Tools and Resources