HP Launches New Compute Platforms

HP has revealed new purpose-built Compute platforms and solutions to help customers leverage data assets. According to the company, they are tailored to meet specific requirements of data-intensive workloads.

The new solution line includes the HP Apollo 2000; the HP Apollo 4000 Systems family; the HP Big Data Reference Architecture; HP Integrity Superdome X; and the ProLiant DL580, DL560 and BL660c Gen9 servers. The solutions are augmented with HP services.

The HP Apollo 2000 acts as an enterprise bridge to scale-out infrastructure. For Big Data analytics, the HP Apollo 4000 Systems offers Hadoop support and object storage.

For scale-up workloads, HP is offering the Integrity Superdome X and ProLiant Gen9 servers. The Integrity Superdome X is now certified for Windows and can support SQL Server 2014 deployments.

“The ever-increasing volume, velocity and variety of data have stretched traditional server technologies beyond their limits – it needs a set of purpose-built compute platforms specifically designed to extract the maximum value of the data,” said Alain Andreoli, senior vice president and general manager, Servers Business Unit, HP. “HP is innovating the designs of its broad Compute portfolio to align it to specific workload needs in order to help customers deliver the most impactful business outcomes by using data in ways that was impossible in the past.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.