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HP BladeSystem c-Class Portfolio Is Considered to Be a Breakthrough

Several market leaders were involved - AMD, Blade Network Technologies, Cisco Systems, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP

Jun 15, 2006 14:13 GMT  ·  By
  

HP released today what it is said to be a revolutionary blade architecture that can enable clients to save much of the sums invested in data centers. According to the manufacturer, the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder program connects hundreds of independent software and hardware vendors, systems integrators and resellers to build up and deliver a wide range of services and products for worldwide customers.

Several application and hardware specialized companies were involved in c-Class development, including AMD, Blade Network Technologies, Brocade, Cisco Systems, Citrix, Emulex, Intel, Mellanox, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, PolyServe, QLogic, Red Hat, SAP, VMWare and Voltaire.

"The HP BladeSystem c-Class portfolio leverages the best technologies across HP - from NonStop servers to printers - and brings them together to fundamentally improve how our customers buy, build, manage and use their computing resources," said Tony Parkinson, Vice President & General Manager, Industry Standard Servers, Technology Solutions Group, HP Asia Pacific.

"By implementing a simple, 'out-of-the-box' design, customers can dramatically reduce the biggest IT cost drivers and barriers to change in today's racked, stacked and wired data centers."

New c-Class server blades series presents two products - the HP ProLiant BL460c and BL480c. The BL480c is said to be the first blade server of its kind, having similar features to the HP ProLiant DL380 - one of the best-selling servers - with support for the widest variety of applications on blades. The manufacturer stated that both the BL460c and BL480c have more than two times the memory, hot-plug drives and I/O expansion capabilities than the IBM HS20 blade, but no figures were revealed.

HP BladeSystem c-Class portfolio seems to be the main product included in HP's Adaptive Infrastructure offering, which enables customers to adopt automated, "lights-out" computing environments that are meant to lower the cost of IT operations and deliver a higher quality of service.

The HP BladeSystem c-Class portfolio will be available in July 2006, with pricing available at that time.