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HP Resource Center:
Welcome to the HP Resource Center. This page will link you directly to HP’s solution sites, as well as connect you to solution-specific whitepapers, case studies and additional support tools. From the desktop to the datacenter, you’ll find a wealth of information about the HP solutions we offer right at your fingertips.
HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
The days of manually managing your physical and virtual servers as separate entities are now over - as long as Hewlett Packard is your solution of choice. HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) is a revolutionary piece of software that will soon be implemented in every effective infrastructure. HP is the only company in the world that offers this level of management software, and not only do they offer it, but they allow you to download it free of cost. Dell, IBM and other integration companies are hard pressed to offer a product such as this, immediately putting HP leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.
- Gaining business value with HP System Insight Manager
- Overview Video of System Insight Manager
We know that your technology infrastructure is your business infrastructure. It needs to adapt and grow, just like your business. With HP Insight software working together with HP platforms and leading operating system and virtualization environments, you can do all that and more. Read More (pdf)
- Insight Dynamic - Virtual Server Environment (ID-VSE) suite for Proliant servers QuickSpecs (pdf)
- HP Insight Capacity Advisor Technical Brief (pdf)
A BladeSystem is simply a smarter way to build an infrastructure that supports the vital applications your business requires-with fewer wires, lower electric bills and none of the headaches from the choices you have today. With a streamlined foundation in place, you can deliver top line business results to grow faster, get to market quickly and empower your employees, partners and customers. Read More..pdf
- Hardware and software required to connect BladeSystem to SANs: SAN Connectivity (pdf)
An HP ProLiant c-Class Server Blade is a complete server that slides into an HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure. The enclosure fits in an HP 10000 series rack and can operate with as few as one server blade installed. The great advantage of blade architecture, however, is the easy addition of more server blades. Read More..pdf
HP Integrity server blades-the BL870c and BL860c-enable customers to run and consolidate mission-critical applications in the flexible BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure, providing superior virtualization, high availability, and scalability.
- Business Case for Integrity Server Blades (pdf)
Easily integrate internal storage blades into HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures and further expand your external storage capacity using your existing NAS or SAN deployments. HP StorageWorks has a broad portfolio of solutions designed to address the specific storage challenges from small businesses to large enterprises. Read More (pdf)
Many factors go into the decision to buy a high-performance, dedicated server, regardless of whether it’s your first server, a replacement for aging equipment or an addition to meet growing business needs. Small to medium-size businesses support many of the same business functions as large enterprises, which may mean anything from running simple file/print and application hosting, to supporting a full-scale Microsoft Exchange Server hosting implementation, dedicated web server hosting and so on. After determining the primary network operating system you’ll run on the server, estimated number of concurrent users and any storage requirements, the next critical decision to make is selecting the appropriate server.
The HP 9000 server family features world-class computing with the HP PA-8900 processors and the proven, mission-critical-ready HP-UX 11i operating system. Now, new models make the HP 9000 family even stronger. These new mid-range and Superdome systems, with the HP sx2000 chipset, deliver even higher availability and performance-lowering your overall TCO and delivering better business outcomes-while protecting your investment with in-box upgrades to HP Integrity servers.
From consolidating multiple servers to hosting data warehouses, ERP applications, and other business critical environments, HP Integrity systems are the answer for you. The HP Integrity line delivers dynamically scalable solutions, from entry-class to Superdome to Non Stop servers-and even business critical blades. Read More (pdf)
HP AlphaServer systems have provided high availability with superior clustering and the ability to run bulletproof operations to enterprise-wide computing environments for years. Now they deliver more simplicity, agility, and value than ever, as HP continues to deliver performance enhancements to meet your needs today while establishing a foundation that will enable your environment to embrace change and adapt to future technologies. Read More (pdf)
The top-selling HP ProLiant servers demonstrate our ongoing commitment to provide a complete server infrastructure that supports both your business objectives and your business growth. ProLiant servers are available with an extensive selection of management tools, virtualization software, storage and networking products as well as services and support. Read More (pdf)
HP ProLiant 300-series G6 servers have been the focus of extensive engineering and development. Characterized by increased performance, better power efficiency, and more powerful management tools, the servers include these new technologies… Read More…
HP StorageWorks’ family of disk arrays reduces the complexity of your storage environment and helps to lower costs because they are easy to install, easy to manage, and easy to support. All of your storage needs are addressed-whether it’s an entry-level modular array, an enterprise-class disk array, or intelligent management software.
HP StorageWorks XP for Business Continuity Manager Software provides the ability to make business continuity processes within the data handling procedures automated such that any failure or unplanned disruption is addressed with a minimum of impact to supported business operations. Read More (pdf)
The HP 4100/6100/8100 StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array family is an enterprise class storage array system designed to aggregate and automate your array management tasks to manage more storage capacity with fewer resources. EVA is designed specifically for customers in the business critical, enterprise marketplace and is a highly available and highly reliable “virtual” array storage solution. Read More (pdf)
- Being Green with StorageWorks EVA
HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array family of SAN devices, with its very latest functionality and technology at affordable prices, offers flexible solutions to meet your diverse business needs. Read More (pdf)
The Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem delivers an easy to manage embedded Fibre Channel switch solution with 4 Gbps performance to HP BladeSystem c-Class customers deploying a small SAN or expanding their current SAN. Read More (pdf)
- Connecting HP BladeSystem server blades to SANs Brocade Access Gateway (pdf)
From the largest enterprise datacenter to the smallest home business, QLogic offers SAN connectivity to meet the needs of any IT environment. Each SANbox® SAN switch comes pre-loaded with all the management tools required to easily connect servers to storage, maximizing the return on both your server and storage investments.
- QLogic enables End to End Virtualization
- Find out how you can reduce TCO with QLogic SAN Consolidation
- Case Study - University of Utah
LeftHand Networks builds data storage systems that simplify management, reduce your costs, and optimize virtual environments. Easy to deploy and maintain, LeftHand SANs ensure that your crucial business data remains available. Their innovative storage systems provide unique double fault protection across the entire SAN, reducing your vulnerability without driving up costs the way traditional SANs can. This is the most affordable cost solution in the market supported by the largest IT company in the world!
HP StorageWorks offers a comprehensive range of reliable, cost-effective data protection solutions, tape libraries and autoloaders are utilized to free up IT resources and minimize the risk of human error.
- A demo on how StorageWorks Tape Systems seamlessly integrates into IT environments.
HP StorageWorks MSL Tape Libraries offer remarkable storage density with a wide range of features that guarantee great return on investment for organizations looking to safeguard their valuable data and minimize IT infrastructure costs. Read More (pdf)
The HP StorageWorks ESL9000 Series Tape Libraries provide a highly reliable backup and restore solution for mission critical data storage requirements of high-end enterprise customers. Read More (pdf)
For more than 25 years, ProCurve has delivered reliable, plug-and-play network solutions to businesses throughout the world. With enterprise level systems and quality at an affordable price, ProCurve Networking solutions can help take you as far as you want to go. Read More (pdf)
- ProCurve Network Convergence (pdf)
- Eliminate expensive ongoing yearly fixed cost of Cisco maintenance (Smartnet 25% additional fee per year) with a lifetime warranty that is included from HP! Learn more about the HP Procurve Lifetime Warranty
The HP ProCurve 6600 Switch Series consists of the most advanced data center server edge switches in the HP ProCurve Networking product line. The 6600 series includes 1U 10/100/1000Base-T and 10-GbE SFP+ stackables enhanced for server edge connectivity with front-to-back cooling, redundant hot-swappable power, and redundant hot-swappable fans. Read More (pdf)
ProCurve mobility solutions offer an intelligent wireless choice — with secure, consistent access to all network resources so users can be productive no matter how they connect. In addition, wireless connectivity also allows you to avoid the cost and hassle of running wires throughout your building.
- Also see Controller Based Solution’s for more wireless products.
ProCurve’s Open Network Ecosystem (ONE) is a new initiative from HP ProCurve that provides you with a choice of best-in-class applications and services that integrate into your network.
Business Technology Optimization
Business technology optimization (BTO) helps you make sure that every dollar invested in IT, every resource allocated and every application in development or production meets your business goals.
- Service Management Center
HP Service Management Center automates the lifecycle of IT service and asset management processes. It provides you with a detailed, federated configuration management database that helps you transform IT into a business-driven enterprise.
- HP Asset Manager Software
- HP Service Manager Software
- HP Connect-IT Software
- HP DecisionCenter Software
Business Information Optimization
In our information-driven world, managing and using information has become a strategic imperative. HP Software products and services address today’s growing information challenges and opportunities. With HP Software solutions, enterprises can capture, classify, access, discover, and recover information faster to achieve better business outcomes.
OpenCall Communications Software
This brochure provides you with a description of three levels of standard support services and additional services HP OpenCall has to offer. This brochure will help you better understand each type of HP OpenCall support service as well as the full portfolio of service offerings. Read More (pdf)
Server, Storage, PC and Workstation Management Software
HP’s management software portfolio for servers, storage, PCs and workstations is broad and deep. HP delivers software products and solutions to customers in more than 170 countries.
HP is #1 in worldwide PC shipments!
- HP has patented technology that will change the way you look at computers because HP is leveraging its $250,000 Halo teleconferencing and telepresence technology and is offering it on PC’s and notebooks for a nominal cost. Ask about Skyroom (Coming August 2009)
- Notebooks and Tablet PCs
- Additional Notebook information: Magic Quadrant for Global Enterprise Notebook PCs
- Desktops and Workstations
- Additional Desktop information: Closed Loop Lifecycle Planning ; Desktop Refresh Cycles ; Forrester Report; Magic Quadrant for Global Enterprise Desktop PCs
- Handhelds/PDAs and Calculators
- Monitors and Accessories
HP’s Imaging and Printing Group is the leading imaging and printing systems provider in the world for printer hardware, printing supplies and scanning devices, providing solutions across customer segments from individual consumers to small and medium businesses to large enterprises.
- Color Inkjet
- Color Laser
- Color Multifunction and All-in-One’s
- Black and White Laser
- Black and White Multifunction and All-in-One’s
- HP DesignJet’s
- Printer supplies: Ink, Toner, Paper
As datacenter density and complexity increase, so do demands for IT efficiency and responsiveness. As a result, simplifying system interconnections becomes significantly more important. HP has developed a new interconnect solution, the HP Virtual Connect architecture, to boost the efficiency and productivity of data center server, storage, and network administrators. Read More (pdf)
- HP Virtual Connect: Myths, Misperceptions, Objections
This technology brief examines HP Flex-10 for Virtual Connect technology. This paper takes an in-depth look at the HP hardware and software technology that comprises Flex-10. It also explores Flex-10’s functional association with HP Virtual Connect (VC), and examines how Flex-10 technology enhances, and is compatible with, current 10GbE architecture. Read More (pdf)
HP Virtual Connect technology is an interconnect option for HP BladeSystem environments that is used in lieu of standard pass-through or managed switch offerings. It is designed to provide a simpler way to connect blade servers to datacenter networks by creating pools of LAN and SAN addresses that can be assigned dynamically to server bays in software, instead of being hardwired into the servers’ NICs. To upstream switches, Virtual Connect Ethernet uplinks look like aggregated NICs. Read More (pdf)
- Check out the Flex10 Instructional Video