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HP announced the new HP Converged System 500 and storage plug-ins. The new and enhanced servers and solutions include: HP Apollo 2000; the HP Apollo 4000 Systems family; the HP Big Data Reference Architecture; HP Integrity Superdome X; and the HP ProLiant DL580, DL560 and BL660c Gen9 servers. The company said, these servers are designed to optimize capacity and performance scalability, flexibility and cost efficiency with unique designs that address data center space, power and cooling challenges.
The HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA has been upgraded with the newest Intel Xeon Processor E7 V3 Family architecture and supports the latest generation business suite, SAP® Business Suite 4 SAP HANA® (SAP S/4HANA), to deliver faster real-time actionable insights. New HP Converged Storage plug-ins help increase flexibility and reduce customer risk through a comprehensive data backup and recovery solution for SAP S/4 HANA environments.
In a press release, the company said these platforms are purpose-built for a range of emerging technologies and applications including mass content storage, block and file storage, unstructured and real-time analytics, as well as simple and transactional databases.
A summary of the new systems’ description is as below:
The HP Apollo 2000:is the enterprise bridge to scale-out infrastructure. It is designed to deliver hyperscale efficiency and performance in traditional datacenters running general purpose and high performance workloads. It has the same rack dimensions, cabling, management and serviceability attributes of traditional 1U rack servers. Additionally, up to four independent hot-pluggable servers in a standard 2U chassis enable customers to mix and match servers for workload optimization.
HP Apollo 4000Systems:family includes three servers purpose-built for data-intensive workloads like Hadoop and big data analytics, in addition to object storage. This family offers a choice of capacity density, performance scalability with one and three nodes, and the flexibility to change the ratio of compute to storage to match workload requirements. Additionally, the HP Apollo 4510 offers a 4U chassis with one server node providing rack-scale storage server density with up to 5.44 Petabytes (PB) in 42U rack.
HP Integrity Superdome X: is now certified for Windows and is ideal to support SQL Server 2014 deployments. It is a fit for in-memory computing applications.
HP ProLiant DL580: Gen9 server is a four socket x86 system. It has resiliency features. The HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 server is integrated in the HP ConvergedSystem 500 to provide increased processing power, memory size and I/O capability to process and manage large volumes of information quickly.
HP ConvergedSystem portfolio for SAP HANA: is designed for organizations with medium-sized SAP solution-based landscapes looking for an economical way to start their journey. Now certified with the new Intel Xeon E7 V3 architecture, this integrated system offers a cost-effective platform for deployments of SAP S/4HANA.
Availability
The HP Apollo 2000, Big Data Reference Architecture, HP Integrity Superdome X and HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 are available now through HP and worldwide channel partners. The HP Apollo 4000 family, HP ProLiant DL560 Gen9 and HP ProLiant BL660c Gen9 are expected to be available in early June 2015.
HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA with Intel Xeon Processor E7 V3 Family architecture will be available worldwide starting late summer 2015.
The HP StoreOnce Plug-in for SAP HANA is available at no cost to existing HP StoreOnce Backup customers beginning in May 2015 as part of an early access program with general availability scheduled for June 2015. Use of the plug-in requires an HP StoreOnce Catalyst software license. The HP Storage Plug-in for SAP Landscape Virtualization Management is currently available at no cost.
