(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an effort to help organizations shift their IT spending from operations to innovation, HP (www.hp.com) has announced products, solutions and services that help companies drive innovation, improving time to market, time to revenue, and the development of differentiating features.
New research conducted on behalf of HP reveals that one out of every two business executives feel their companies suffer from “innovation gridlock,” which blocks IT organizations from driving new business innovation because the majority of their funding is consumed by operating the current environment, keeping them from keeping up with the competition.
“[Executives] see that if they truly want to provide a competitive advantage for their business, that there needs to be a change in terms of how infrastructure is managed,” Chris Christianopoulos, HP’s ProLiant and BladeSystem business development manager, said in a phone interview. “If we look at the traditional budgetary spent around IT, a large majority of that spent tends to happen on the operational piece, and the number is typically 70 percent of the budget is spent on the operational piece, and only 30 percent of the budget is spent on the innovation piece.”
The focus of HP’s new products, solutions and services, revealed Tuesday, is to drive down operational costs, and a major part of that expense is in infrastructure management.
To this end, the HP Insight Control server management software suite has been expanded with the introduction of HP Integrated Lights-Out Advanced, or iLO 3, which significantly improves system operations and efficiency throughout the server life cycle. Addressing one of the largest operational cost centers for most enterprises, iLO 3 can lower administration costs through simplified server setup, power and thermal optimization, and embedded system health monitoring.
“With Integrated Lights Out 3… is it’s eight [times] faster than its predecessor [iLO 2], so the performance is a lot better,” Christianopoulos said. “We look at the experience of managing that infrastructure versus being right in front of it, and there’s significant gains that we’ve driven with iLO 3 and I think this is where we talk about value above-and-beyond the processor.”
HP also introduced new seventh-generation HP ProLiant servers, the DL360 G7 and DL380 G7, which feature Intel’s latest 5600-series Xeon processors. Making significant strides in performance per watt, these servers exponentially improve cost-efficiency and increase performance. HP ProLiant G7 servers deliver a 20 to 1 or greater consolidation ratio, a 27 times performance-per-watt increase, and an industry-leading two-month return on investment compared to equivalent G4 servers. Additionally, after the initial payback these servers continue to deliver savings that can be used to invest in new IT projects.
“In this era of constant change, breaking the innovation gridlock can mean the difference between being a market maker or a follower,” said HP Enterprise Business sales, marketing and strategy executive vice president Thomas E. Hogan. “With HP, CIOs can capitalize on change by reclaiming funds locked in operations to drive new innovation projects.”
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