Hewlett-Packard
2009-11-26
Amstelveen, 26 november 2009 - Steeds meer organisaties kiezen voor
virtualisatie, maar merken dat de tijd waarin ze een nieuwe virtuele
machine inzetten de voordelen van virtualisatie soms niet overstijgen.
De multiple hiërarchische netwerken en de afzonderlijke management
teams die deze verandering ondersteunen zorgen voor hogere kosten en
lagere IT flexibiliteit. HP FlexFabric verbindt duizenden server en
storage oplossingen met een gevirtualiseerd, highperformance
`low-latency' netwerk. Een `wire once' netwerkfabriek die servers,
networking en storage `on demand' kan verbinden. Juist in het huidige
klimaat biedt HP datacenter omgevingen die mee ademen met de behoeften
en ontwikkelingen van een bedrijf.
De voornaamste voordelen zijn lagere kosten door consolidatie van de
server connectiviteit en kleinere omvang van de netwerkinfrastructuur
en het aantal switches. Het gehele verandermanagement proces valt weg
en het resulteert in minder fouten en conflicten. Door het
verbindingsontwerp en management in een systeem heeft de gebruiker een
flexible én geautomatiseerde omgeving, inclusief mogelijkheden om het
geheel goed op elkaar af te stemmen.
Met FlexFabric worden connecties direct gemigreerd als applicaties
gebruik maken van verschillende resources, of resources uit
verschillende datacenters. Daarmee kunnen klanten bovendien vooraf
voorzien in SAN en LAN resources en ze activeren wanneer dit nodig is.
HP FlexFabric is een samensmelting van technologie, management en
tooling van HP ProCurve en HP Virtual Connect oplossingen.
-- Vervolg persbericht in het Engels ---
Tighter orchestration between network administrators and server
administrators is necessary to improve time-to-service, and network
convergence is necessary to reduce costs. Today's storage and
networking resources must also become more scalable and fully
virtualized to match the growth of virtualized servers and their
dynamic requirements. The goal is to make any resource shareable and
expandable to meet new and changing application demands. A data center
fabric must enable rapid, automated change, instead of the manual
intervention required today.
A technology layer of the new HP Converged Infrastructure
architecture, FlexFabric merges the technology, management tools and
partner ecosystems of HP ProCurve and HP Virtual Connect (VC)
solutions. This shifts network intelligence from the core closer to
the server edge to improve performance, utilization and flexibility.
For the first time, network connections and capacity can be fully
virtualized from the edge to the core to deliver "network as a
service," allowing resources to be accessed "on the fly."
HP FlexFabric enables customers to: Achieve break through cost
structures Improve business agility and gain faster time to service
Ensure investment protection for existing data center networks
Wire-once, dynamic assembly - always predictable
As organizations expand their virtual architectures, tighter
orchestration between network administrators and server administrators
is necessary to better manage connectivity and reduce costs. HP
FlexFabric technology delivers that integration while consolidating
multiple protocols into a single network fabric to dramatically lower
network complexity and costs. This wire-once approach converges
Ethernet data and storage networks onto one fabric. As a result,
customers can easily adapt connections and performance to meet changes
in workload demands.
Industry standards for multivendor support
HP FlexFabric is based on industry standards and offers a modular
design to support multivendor solutions. Customers can leverage their
current environments with new HP solutions and processes for building
a converged infrastructure, including network management and
application deployment.
More information about the HP Converged Infrastructure architecture
and the key role of HP FlexFabric is available at
www.hp.com/go/convergedinfrastructure.
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(1) "TDWI Report: Next Generation Data Warehouse Platforms," Philip
Russom, TDWI, October 2009.
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