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IT managers installing blades
How can a business save money and reduce the hours spent on network management? Not by doing business as usual. Most businesses expect to spend three times more to manage and operate IT systems than to buy them1. The cost-saving alternative is to automate ever more of the IT infrastructure. The HP BladeSystem integrates network resources into a virtualized, automated environment —from desktop to datacentre – making it possible to manage a pool of resources as easily as one machine. HP BladeSystem is an integrated, modular infrastructure — not just a blade server but a complete system — that includes storage, servers, blade PCs, integrated management, networking and power. Read how these HP customers are saving time and money with HP BladeSystem.
IT manager pushing a blades box.
Moving to HP BladeSystem was smart for business intelligence software provider Kognitio. In addition to a huge performance boost, the Bracknell, U.K. company estimates it will save approximately 1 to 1.5 million British pounds (or 2.19 million euros) per year. “Thanks to BladeSystem technology, we reduced the number of servers we need to do the same job by 3:1 or 4:1,” says Director of Development Roger Gaskell. “Even with the much smaller number of servers, we now run three to five times faster.” The reliability of the HP blade servers means there is less staff needed to maintain systems and meet service level agreements. As part of the BladeSystem solution, HP Systems Insight Manager and Integrated Lights-Out make managing server resources more flexible and efficient. A single ‘drag and drop’ interface within HP ProLiant Essential Rapid Deployment Pack lets Kognitio redeploy a single server blade, then replicate it as many times as needed.
Boerse-Stuttgart – the second largest stock exchange in Germany – looked to an HP BladeSystem to allow for more growth in less space. Boerse-Stuttgart examined vendors that offered server blade solutions and concluded that HP BladeSystem could support the demands of Boerse-Stuttgart’s stock trading. HP BladeSystem is increasing capabilities while accommodating millions of Euros in trading and operational transaction volumes. As additional servers are needed to support their growing business, HP BladeSystem supports Boerse-Stuttgart’s ability to scale up quickly and easily. “Most of the company doesn’t even realize that we are using HP server blades. They only see that their applications are going faster and they are able to get their particular task done quicker…the server blade technology has almost everything running so smoothly that no one is questioning what servers are behind the applications. That is a big success for our IT department,” says IT Administrator Tom Broeckermann, Boerse-Stuttgart.
IT manager standing in blade centre
The prospect of major cost savings is leading more and more of the world's foremost financial institutions to base their infrastructures on industry standard servers running Linux. Dexia Bank Belgium, one of Belgium's leading banks, recently chose to implement the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) on Linux and the HP BladeSystem platform. Team leader Jean-Luc Bruwier anticipates that it will be very easy to expand the architecture by adding extra HP ProLiant server blades, with the same platform also capable of running Windows applications. Dexia is also confident that HP’s strategic commitment to Linux will serve
it well in the future as the industry trend to use Linux systems gathers strength. “By running our new RMDS application on Linux and the HP BladeSystem, we are benefiting from lower costs, better performance and higher availability. This solution is set to become the standard for Dexia Group dealing rooms throughout Europe,” concludes Jean-Luc Bruwier.
To reinforce the benefits of HP's Adaptive Enterprise strategy, Al Rostamani, based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), turned to HP and Intel to implement Intel® Xeon™ processor-based HP ProLiant blade servers, aiming to build an agile, yet resilient, IT infrastructure. The new system will automate all core business transactions and allow the transparent cross-functional sharing and validation of data, providing employees with accurate, timely and business-critical information. "The Al Rostamani Group is a multi-industry business that spans Financial Services, Automobiles and Real Estate, and we needed a new IT infrastructure that would be dynamic enough to allow for adjustment with market changes," explains Abdallah El Kadi, Group IT Manager, Al Rostamani Group. "By moving to a consolidated infrastructure powered by Intel-based HP blade servers, we have streamlined the flow of information and minimized costly, inefficient bottlenecks." HP BladeSystem infrastructures are the next stage in the evolution of industry standard, scale-out IT architecture. Whether you are deploying datacentre or desktop solutions, HP combines the simplicity and efficiency of blade design and the low cost of standard servers with the industry's leading enterprise management tools to create a universal platform for Linux® and Microsoft® Windows® environments.
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According to IDC, a market intelligence company for technology industries, over the next five years, companies expect to spend three times more to manage and operate their IT systems as they did to purchase them.
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