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The two day summit by IT major HP in the city of Mumbai witnessed numerous roll outs on its first day by the American firm which primarily targeted the Enterprise IT space in India.
The event included the launching of all flash HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 Storage array which according to the company offers faster response at the same price as a spinning media without compromising the enterprise class storage resiliency and petabyte scalability.
The company also launched backup, recovery and archive (BURA) solutions which include upgrades for the HP StoreOnce Backup family, enabling organizations to protect increasing volumes of data and ease data management.
HP also rolled out Virtual Cloud Networking SDN application and FlexFabric Datacenter7900 series switch which will enable organisations to bring projects to the market in a reduced span of time and will also reduce the overall costs and optimize the applications.
The announcements by the company on the first day included the up-gradation to HP OneView to automate routine IT tasks, reduce IT operational expenses and speed response times to business needs;HP Converged System platform for IT-as-a-Service, which significant performance of comparable systems while also radically reducing cost, time and complexity; and HP Datacenter Care Flexible Capacity, a pay-as-you-go model for easy management of a hybrid IT environment.
The company also unveiled the HP Apollo family of high-performance computing (HPC) systems, which according to company claims, are capable of delivering up to four times the performance of standard rack servers while using less space and energy.
The HP Apollo portfolio included- Air-cooled HP Apollo 6000 System, which makes HPC capabilities accessible to a wide range of enterprise customers; and the HP Apollo 8000 System, a supercomputer which packs in high levels of processing power with a groundbreaking water-cooling design for ultra-low energy usage.
The announcements did not just end here as the company also decided to expand its Advisory Services suite with new consulting services crafted to help enterprises and governments in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) adapt to a New way of IT driven by big data, cloud, mobility and security.
HP is also celebrating its 75th Year Anniversary in 2014 following which Jim Merritt, SVP Enterprise Group and Managing Director, APJ raised curtain from ‘The Machine’ which is an all in one powerful Photonic device and according to the company is the biggest innovation HP is bringing in Computing Technology predicted in next four years. Wherein, copper will be replaced with Photonics that produces less heat and is much faster. This all-in-one device – a server, workstation, PC and phone – uses photonic memory and is portable, potentially opening doors to a more powerful, energy-efficient global computer industry.
The Machine will be able to hand vast quantities of data using far less electricity, HP claims, adding that its system will be six times more powerful than existing servers and require 80 times less energy. However exciting, the project is still under development and the company isn’t expecting to produce its first prototypes until 2015. The first devices equipped with The Machine are not scheduled to be released until 2018.
The new data transfer system will be based on silicon photonics to transmit data, as an alternative to copper wires, using lasers that are just 1/4 the diameter of a human hair. HP promises it will boost the speed of the system whilst reducing energy requirements.
To operate The Machine, the company has invented a new type of memory called “memristors,” which are fast, allow permanent storage even if the power is cut off and are designed to replace current storage devices.
HP claims The Machine is capable of managing 160 petabytes in 250 nanoseconds. The device’s main difference is that it will be operating clusters of specialized cores while today’s computers operate much smaller numbers of generalized cores. This is seen as the key for the Internet of Things future network, which will bundle together all digitalized knowledge and make it accessible and usable by devices such as The Machine.
HP is much more optimistic, placing high hopes in The Machine. Saying it will not be just for huge supercomputers, the company promises its new technology could be used in smaller devices such as smartphones and laptops. It already sees a variety of future applications, from business to medicine, for The Machine.
