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HP CONVERGED
INFRASTRUCTURE

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HP Converged Infrastructure delivers essential technological building blocks enabling your data center to respond quickly with increased efficiency to
ever-changing business demands. The HP Converged Infrastructure model integrates the previously siloed components of storage, servers, and networking under unified management to deliver a virtualized, secure, highly automated tech environment that simplifies data center operations while increasing business value.



Benefits That Matter

Drive Innovation and Competitive Advantage

By implementing HP Converged Infrastructure, you deliver top-of-the-line IT resources to your team that allows them to innovate and push your company's advantage in the market. The many autonomic functions of the system also free up your IT team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives rather than just management.

Maximize Flexibility

The HP Converged Infrastructure allows your entire data center infrastructure to act as one and allot resources more intelligently—giving it the flexibility to respond to any business need and the ability to maximize uptime through improved resiliency.

Simplified, Effective Management

HP OneView is the software platform that manages the HP Converged Infrastructure. This approach shifts your management focus from how devices run to how people work. With an unprecedented ease of use, you can deploy your environment faster, manage it at lower cost, and maximize productivity at any scale.

Comprehensive Security

HP OneView incorporates security into its foundation ensuring the safety of your data center and corporate data. HP OneView was designed under the rigorous HP comprehensive applications threat analysis (CATA) to deliver an optimal level of security. HP CATA combines HP's security and software quality management expertise to develop highly secure solutions and guards against the chance of introducing possible security holes for hackers to exploit—no matter what method workers use to access your data center.

Prepare for the Future of IT

The needs of your workforce are constantly increasing, and there's no telling what's on the horizon for IT. HP Converged Infrastructure is a model that prepares your architecture for the needs of today and gives it the scalability to adapt to any new needs that might arise.

Maximize Your Resources

The Converged Infrastructure model runs on a virtualized architecture ensuring that you get the most out of every element of your converged infrastructure hardware without having to sacrifice speed or power.


Why CDW

  • CDW data center experts can help you implement or integrate HP technology into your existing infrastructure.
  • CDW's expertise includes related solution areas—networking, security, cloud computing, and many others. This ensures that you get whatever help you may need to truly get the most from your converged infrastructure solution.
  • CDW offers services that extend throughout your converged infrastructure solution lifecycle allowing them to help with assessment, design, planning, deployment, and even management.
  • CDW's sales representatives and solution architects are regularly educated about HP's converged infrastructure solutions in order to maintain a high level of knowledge and service.
  • CDW is HP's largest commercial partner ensuring that CDW's experts are up to date on the newest HP developments.

HP's newest storage architecture uses a single architecture to deliver primary storage for midrange, Tier 1 enterprise, and all-flash arrays. HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage is built to harness the power and security of HP Converged Infrastructure and meets any range of data center needs for midrange to enterprise organizations. It is the world's most agile and efficient storage platform and the only storage architecture you will ever need.

Benefits That Matter

Storage for the Future

HP Storage is built to take full advantage of HP's advanced Converged Infrastructure technology ensuring that your IT infrastructure works as one rather than as the sum of its parts.

Respond to Any Demand

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage is guaranteed to double virtual machine (VM) density with its flexible storage administration and secure multi-tenancy.

Strong Security

With numerous security features built into the software of these devices, bolstered by the security benefits of HP Converged Infrastructure, you can be sure that these devices will keep your data secure.

Free Up Time for Innovation

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage saves your IT staff up to 90% of their time on management due to autonomic storage functions like storage provisioning, tiering, and management changes.

Spend Less on Storage

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage's superior thin provision capabilities allow you to meet your performance and service level objectives with 50-75% fewer disks.

Simplicity and Scalability

It's a singular architecture with one operating system, one management interface, and one feature set delivering the simplicity and scalability that your IT team needs.

Versatile Performance

It offers the performance and flexibility you need from your storage solution to accelerate application deployment and support server virtualization, delivery of IT as a service, cloud-based service delivery models, or any new IT development that it would need to support.

Why CDW

  • CDW storage experts can help you design, implement, or integrate any level of HP storage technologies into your existing infrastructure.
  • CDW's sales representatives and solution architects are regularly educated about HP's storage solutions in order to maintain a high level of knowledge and service.
  • CDW's expertise extends to adjacent solution areas including networking, security, cloud computing, and many others. This ensures that you get whatever help you may need to truly get the most from your storage solution.
  • CDW offers services that extend throughout your storage solution lifecycle, allowing them to help with assessment, design, planning, deployment, and even management.
  • CDW is HP's largest commercial partner ensuring that CDW's experts are up to date on the newest HP developments.

HP's server offering allows you to future proof your business with the latest end-to-end performance and technology innovations. Built to best function on HP's Converged Infrastructure, the most intelligent infrastructure and comprehensive software-defined management deliver unprecedented insight into your data center. It's architected for any workload from client to cloud.

Benefits That Matter

Improved Virtualization Performance

HP servers are designed to accelerate performance of your virtualized environment and deliver the intelligence necessary to optimize the effectiveness of your data center. They are designed for virtualization from the ground up, delivering more memory and superior networking capability for virtualized environments and compute intensive application workloads.

Maximized Uptime

Since HP servers are built to maximize the benefits of virtualization, resiliency is maximized and your data center's computing resources are fault-tolerant helping your organization stay as productive as possible.

Improved Functionality

HP servers can scale from the task worker to the high-end workstation user delivering a new level of user experience and productivity. This empowers more users and even enables a wider client virtualization portfolio increasing mobility capabilities for your workforce.

Simplified Connections

HP Virtual Connect—standard in many HP servers and in all HP BladeSystem products—simplifies and converges your server edge connections making server changes transparent to storage and networks and delivering four times the number of connections per physical network link. HP Virtual Connect reduces complexity by up to 95% and reduces hardware costs by up to 65%.

Why CDW

  • CDW is HP's largest commercial partner ensuring that CDW's experts are up to date on the newest HP developments.
  • CDW's server experts can help you implement or integrate any level of HP technologies into your existing infrastructure.
  • CDW's sales representatives and solution architects are regularly educated about HP's server solutions in order to maintain a high level of knowledge and service.
  • CDW's expertise also extends to adjacent solution areas including networking, security, cloud computing, and many others. This ensures that you get whatever help you may need to truly get the most from your server solution.
  • CDW offers services that extend throughout your server solution lifecycle allowing them to help with assessment, design, planning, deployment, and even management.

HP FlexFabric and HP Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are next-generation, highly scalable data center fabric architecture and a technology layer in the HP Converged Infrastructure. This open architecture uses industry standards to converge storage, server, and network resources and provides seamless interoperability with existing data center core networks. FlexFabric combines intelligence at the server edge with an advanced orchestration and management layer to enable predictable performance, virtualization-aware networking, and rapid, secure provisioning of data center resources.

Benefits That Matter

Intelligent, Secure Networking

FlexFabric offers improved business agility, faster time-to-service and higher resource utilization by dynamically scaling capacity and provisioning connections to meet application demands on the fly. It does all of this while enforcing governance and security policies necessary to properly protect your data.

Do More With Less

FlexFabric offers predictable performance and low latency to support the most demanding application workloads, while reducing costs by converging and consolidating server, storage, and network connectivity onto a common fabric with a flatter topology and fewer switches.

Maximum Scalability

Modular scalability gives you the ability to connect up to thousands of server and storage devices using industry-standard building blocks ensuring that your networking purchase is ready for your long-term usage.

Managerial Flexibility

FlexFabric architecture is able to manage and administer server, storage, and network resources in any organizational model—from completely separate to fully integrated—while consistently enforcing governance, security, and SLA policies. IT offers support for a wide range of data center deployment models giving you the flexibility to work with the model you need.

Why CDW

  • CDW is HP's largest commercial partner ensuring that CDW's experts are up to date on the newest HP developments.
  • CDW's networking experts can help you implement or integrate any level of HP technology into your existing infrastructure.
  • CDW's sales representatives and solution architects are regularly educated about HP's networking solutions in order to maintain a high level of knowledge and service.
  • CDW's expertise also extends to adjacent solution areas including storage, security, cloud computing, and many others. This ensures that you get whatever help you may need to truly get the most from your networking solution.
  • CDW offers services that extend throughout your networking solution lifecycle allowing them to help with assessment, design, planning, deployment, and even management.

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