HP ProLiant Gen8 Announcement
HP ProLiant Gen8: Explore the ProActive Insight Architecture
Powered by the HP ProActive Insight architecture, ProLiant Gen8 servers continuously analyze thousands of system parameters to optimize application performance, proactively improve uptime, and give you insight into every aspect of your IT infrastructure.
Built with over 150 design innovations, ProLiant Gen8 servers help you eliminate common problems that can cause failures, downtime and data loss.
Innovations include:- Integrated Lifecycle Automation
- Dynamic Workload Acceleration
- Automated Energy Optimization
- Proactive Service and Support
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Announcing the ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance
Extraordinary things happen when leaders come together around a common goal, especially when the goal is to redefine the expectations and economics of the datacenter. The result, in this case, is the ProLiant Gen8.
Learn what is takes to be a part of ProActive Insight Architecture (PIA) Alliance, what technologies make ProLiant Gen8 the world’s most self-sufficient server and what the future holds for the ProActive Insight Architecture.
Servers so intelligent they help eliminate your tedious tasks
In today’s data centers, your life is harder than it should be. Too often, your workday is a steady stream of error alerts, system events, installation and update issues, and calls to support desks.
To respond, your IT team needs intelligent servers that eliminate tedious, time-consuming tasks. That’s the new HP ProLiant family with the HP ProActive Insight architecture. This architecture, embedded inside each next-generation ProLiant server, gives you deep insight into your IT environment and a rich set of capabilities that automate and simplify system provisioning, troubleshooting, and software updates.
- HP Intelligent Provisioning: Everything you need is built-in for painless system setup and deployment.
- HP Active Health: Your 24/7 mission control for automated monitoring, diagnostics, and alerting.
- HP Smart Update: Schedule, stage and deploy updates across 100’s of servers with a click.
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Servers so intelligent they turbo-charge application performance
Storage is the top performance bottlenecks in your virtualized and data-intensive workloads.
By converging server and storage together and optimizing for solid state performance, ProLiant Gen8 servers get rid of the bottlenecks and accelerate your most demanding apps.
- Solid state optimized: 100x faster storage performance.
- Smart data protection: Confidently protect your data and help ensure uptime.
- Smart data services: Enable real-time application tuning and acceleration.
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Servers and infrastructure so intelligent they maximize the use of space, power, and cooling
As data centers grow, power and cooling costs grab an ever-larger piece of the IT budget.
The automated energy optimization capabilities in the new ProLiant family are enabled by HP 3D Sea of Sensor technologies. With embedded intelligence across three dimensions: sense of location, power utilization and thermal demand, clients gain a unique level of visibility and control over their data center energy efficiency.
- HP Location Discovery Services: Enable energy-aware workload placement and automate asset management.
- HP Thermal Discovery Services: Reduce energy usage and increase compute capacity.
- HP Power Discovery Services: Eliminate power configuration errors and precisely track power usage by rack and server.
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Servers so intelligent they redefine the server experience
In today's data centers, too much of your time is lost on IT support issues. When a system goes down and a service call begins, you might spend hours digging through spreadsheets and log files to find and communicate dozens of pieces of data to a support desk.
Taking advantage of the rich insight collected by the HP ProActive Insight architecture, the ProLiant Gen8 helps you proactively resolve issues, accelerate problem resolution, and gain valuable insights into your data center operations.
- HP Insight Online: Experience the industry’s first cloud-based IT management and support portal.
- Proactive services: Improve uptime and performance with innovative new services based on the HP ProActive Insight architecture.
- HP ServiceONE advantage: Leverage local expertise backed by HP’s global resources.
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Servers so intuitive because they were designed for the way you work
From the moment your first HP ProLiant Gen8 server emerges from the box, you will feel, see, and sense the built-in quality. Guided by our “Client-2-Innovation” design philosophy, HP engineers and developers created more than 150 innovations that help you get tasks done simply, reliably, and with confidence. These next-generation servers were designed for the way you work.
Clients who have trusted ProLiant servers for years will be instantly familiar with the consistent experience and yet appreciative of the attention to detail of the new features and design. Taken together, the sweeping architecture and design innovations in the new ProLiant family will help your IT team increase productivity, improve server and application uptime, and drive higher levels of system performance.
These benefits are delivered by a unique set of ProLiant innovations that encompass:
- Designed-in quality: Virtually eliminate common problems that cause downtime and data loss.
- Hassle-free serviceability: Increase your productivity and confidence during setup, upgrade, and repair.
- Intuitive simplicity: Reduce errors and improve productivity with an intuitive, efficient user experience.
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ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance
ProActive Insight architecture is more than a design or even a transforming design philosophy. It’s also the alignment of over 900 patents, over 150 customer innovations and an alliance of the world’s top technology provider allied to transform the server experience.
"Broadcom is pleased to be an active member of HP’s ProActive Insight Architecture Program. By providing HP with Ethernet solutions that are optimized for their new ProLiant Gen8 server line, Broadcom is able to deliver unsurpassed speed, efficiency, and scalability, thereby redefining the expectations and economics of the data center. The new ProActive Insight Architecture Program will continue to drive tighter alignment between the two companies and reinforce end-user value."
Vinod Lakhani
General Manager, High Speed Controllers, Broadcom Corporation
“As the world’s number one provider of switching power supplies, Delta Electronics is pleased to be a key technology contributor to the HP ProLiant Gen8 servers and a founding member of the ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance. Delta’s advanced digital design and rigorous product testing paired with the built-in intelligence of the ProLiant Gen8 ProActive Insight architecture delivers power efficiency at the industry’s highest level with the lowest iTHD. Paired with ProLiant Gen8, Delta delivers total energy-saving solutions that return value to our clients and help to fulfill our corporate mission: “To provide innovative, clean and energy-efficient solutions for a better tomorrow.”
Jeff Chen
General Manager
“The new HP ProLiant Generation 8 server platform provides built-in intelligence to improve data center efficiency,” said Shaun Walsh, vice president of marketing, Emulex. “As part of the HP ProActive Insight Architecture Program, Emulex is providing HP customers with next generation I/O connectivity solutions.”
“Fusion-io is pleased to be invited to join the HP ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance as a founding member, and we are proud to be collaborating with HP to deliver dramatic improvements in data intensive application performance with the new, higher capacity HP IO Accelerators powered by Fusion’s ioMemory technology”, said Tyler Smith, Fusion-io Vice President of Alliances. “The new HP IO Accelerators integrate with HP's self-sufficient ProLiant Gen8 servers to provide customers with powerful and cost-effective solutions while simplifying, automating and optimizing their infrastructure.”
"As one of the leading enterprise-class HDD and SSD companies in the world, we are honored to be a founding member and active participant in HP’s ProActive Insight Architecture Program,” said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing, HGST, a Western Digital company. “We have had a long history with HP, continually meeting their stringent quality and performance standards, and in 2011 we won their Global Supplier Quality of the year award. With our quality reputation and commitment, HP ProLiant Gen8 customers will continue to benefit from our field-proven Ultrastar hard drive platform with industry-leading technology, performance and high reliability.”
“Mellanox is pleased to be a part of HP’s ProActive Insight Architecture and enable the HP ProLiant Gen8 family with the industry’s highest bandwidth, lowest latency interconnect performance,” said Chuck Tybur, vice president of Americas and global OEM sales at Mellanox Technologies. “In parallel with HP’s Proliant Gen8 server launch in March, Mellanox unveiled a new portfolio of 10/40GbE and FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions, including the industry’s only PCIe 3.0 adapters, designed to optimize end-to-end interconnect performance in next generation enterprise applications and provide end-users with the best return-on-investment.”
“For more than a decade QLogic has been a key partner in the development of networking solutions for HP ProLiant servers,” said Amit Vashi, vice president, marketing, Host Solutions Group, QLogic. “HP ProLiant Gen8 servers provide organizations with several key enhancements including higher compute density, the ability to process more VMs, and new levels of enterprise I/O performance. By harnessing the full capabilities of HP-branded QLogic adapters for Gen8 ProLiant rack and tower servers, this powerful new multi-core server platform maximizes overall performance. The addition of HP’s automated ProActive Service and Support transforms the services industry and redefines the server experience by finding and fixing problems before they occur, eliminating customer downtime.”
"As the world's leading IT rack manufacturer, Rittal is proud to be a founding member of the ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance. Building on the design standards and technologies delivered by Rittal, HP has developed the Intelligent Series racks that provide location information to installed ProLiant Gen8 servers, said Ray Snyder, Director of International Strategic Accounts. Just as the other technologies represented in the ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance, Rittal's design works in concert with ProLiant Gen8 to redefine datacenter economics and expectations, and to provide countless opportunities to better manage infrastructure."
“We continue to work closely with HP on an aggressive path of innovation that combines Samsung technologies in memory and in Solid State Drives with HP’s ProActive Insight Architecture for the most advanced server applications,” said Jim Elliott, Vice President, Memory Marketing and Product Planning, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. “Our 2Gb and 4Gb-based memory ensures that HP’s new ProLiant Gen 8 servers will have an optimal memory solution with the lowest power requirements and the highest quality components,” he added.
“Joining as a founding member of the HP ProActive Insight Architecture program underscores the SanDisk® commitment to deliver innovative flash-based solutions for the enterprise,” said Greg Goelz, SanDisk vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions. “SanDisk understands that enterprise customers require sustainable performance to maximize I/O intensive application workloads making the SanDisk Lightning® SAS Enterprise SSDs a natural fit with the ProLiant Gen8 server solutions.”
“Seagate is pleased to be teaming with HP to make it easier to manage data centers at lower cost in the face of exponential data growth,” said Scott Horn, vice president of marketing at Seagate. “As a founding member of the ProActive Insight Architecture Program, Seagate is integral to the intelligence that powers the HP ProLiant Gen8 servers to new levels of reliability, performance and efficiency in cloud and in-house data centers the world over.”
“ As a leader in the design and manufacture of world class memory products, SK Hynix is pleased to be a key technology partner with HP on the introduction of the new line of ProLiant Gen 8 servers. As a member of the ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance, SK Hynix is proud to support the advanced design and rigorous product testing put into this new Generation of systems. SK Hynix is extremely excited to be a pre-launch supplier as well as a major partner in the production ramp of these platforms and we look forward to supplying HP and their customers with the highest quality and best performing memory solutions available today. Congratulations HP on this monumental event.”
JB Kim
Senior VP/ Worldwide Marketing & Sales Division – SK Hynix Semiconductor
“The rapid growth of Big Data and cloud computing makes storage technology a critical component in data centers,” said Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing for Toshiba Storage Products Business Unit. “With its ProLiant Gen 8 servers, HP is delivering solutions that directly address enterprise customer requirements for self-sufficient architecture, power savings, and performance. Toshiba is excited to be delivering storage solutions as part of the ProLiant Gen8 family.”
