HP Products Reduce Server Sprawl, Consumption Costs

Posted by jmcgill on December 11, 2009 under HP | 3 Comments to Read

The main idea with many of HP’s products is consolidation: put more work onto less servers, and thereby save time, money and work. Tools like Hewlett Packard’s Insight Control and Insight Dynamics – VSE help you improve and quicken your business transactions and server management with less reduplication through its cloud hosting.

Insight Dynamics is an integrated command center, and is one of the ways you can reduce server sprawl and consolidate more than one workload on a single server. By doing this, it reduces power consumption, money spent and extra workloads from having so much data on several servers.

For some businesses, paying for the cost of power is actually starting to become more expensive than the actual cost of the hardware or software. This doesn’t have to be the case, and cloud computing can help reduce these costs. If you’re able to put more work and data on fewer computers or fewer servers, the less electricity you need to have on. Businesses that are able to operate on fewer computers than they expect can also save money on computer costs, and before long they end up discovering that cloud computing will give them a great return on investment and improving cash flow.

Virtual Connect rethinks how blade servers are connected to your LAN and SAN which brings an added benefit to each side of the equation. It reduces cables and saves work for every one — the server and both the LAN and SAN administrators. And because you’ve virtualized your connections to the outside world, you can make changes without impacting other systems or other departments. Virtual Connect has many of the same consolidation purposes. Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology adds more flexibility into each server blade, adding more NICs without having to use more hardware, which can save about 75 percent of network hardware costs.

The option of cloud computing also should save your business money. Rather than having to pay for all the infrastructure or products yourself, you can increase cash flow by paying for the service as a subscription. By paying a smaller monthly fee, you can save plenty of cash up front. Ultimately, businesses are finding that options such as cloud computing and many HP products are helping them to move forward into the 21st Century by eliminating expenses that would otherwise seriously cut into their profit margins.

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