 IT sprawl has brought organizations to the breaking point by increasing complexity, which drives up operations costs and stifles innovation. Today, organizations spend up to 70 per cent of their IT budgets managing operations and only 30 per cent driving new IT initiatives. HP Converged Infrastructure provides the blueprint for organizations to eliminate technology silos, simplify the management of their environment and drive integration across the data center. Creating a virtual pool of shared storage resources is a key technology in the evolution to a Converged Infrastructure. Two new HP StorageWorks a solution has announced -HP StorageWorks P4800 BladeSystem storage area network (SAN) and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) Cluster–enable clients to consolidate servers, storage and desktops by creating Virtual Resource Pools of capacity. This enables clients to easily shift resources as the organization requires. Organizations also struggle with sprawl from desktops, portables and mobile devices. Data now resides on a large number of devices, which makes it difficult to manage, secure and back up. Client virtualization can simplify management, improve security and reduce backup traffic on the network. Traditionally, client virtualization requires the complex integration of storage, servers, networking and management. To address this challenge, HP is delivering the first HP BladeSystem SAN along with Converged Infrastructure reference architecture. This comprehensive hardware and software architecture scales to support thousands of virtual desktops in a simple, modular design that is pre-sized and pre-tested. The reference architecture delivers three times the productivity for IT administrators, supports 1,600 users at 50 per cent less cost and requires 60 per cent less space than traditional client virtualization implementations. An integral component in the reference architecture is the new HP StorageWorks P4800 BladeSystem SAN, which provides scalable, shared storage for a converged server, storage and networking environment. Built from HP BladeSystem technology, the new P4800 delivers 63 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity with four storage blades connected to 140 disk drives.
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