HP has launched the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio for businesses involved in Web 2.0, cloud and high-performance computing. The ExSO operates with thousands of servers.
According to HP, at the core of HP ExSO portfolio is the HP ProLiant SL server family, which uses skinless systems architecture that replaces chassis and rack form factors with lightweight rail and tray design. This is expected to enable customers to reduce capital, facilities and shipping costs while using less space in the data center.
HP said that the new ProLiant SL server family with consolidated power and cooling infrastructure and air flow design uses 28% less power per server than traditional rack-based servers. Its volume packaging also reduces the acquisition costs for customers who require thousands of server nodes.
HP also offers Data center Environmental Edge system which provides visual mapping of environmental variables to enable customers to identify data center inefficiencies.
Christine Reischl, senior vice president and general manager of industry standard servers at HP, said: “Customers with scale-out business models need solutions that make every dollar, watt and square foot in the data center count. The HP ProLiant SL offers pioneering customers like these the most significant design innovation since the blade form factor, allowing them to achieve an economy of scale never before possible.”
HP’s existing scale-out computing portfolio includes the HP ProLiant DL1000 Multi Node servers, the HP POD (Performance Optimised Datacenter), HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System and the HP ProLiant 2x220c double-density blade server.
