HP announces the ProLiant Gen9 server portfolio, one the company describes as a "major delivery milestone" optimised for applications such as convergence, cloud and software-defined environments.
Innovations within the servers include HP-unique PCIe accelerators, DDR4 SmartMemory, SmartCache, FlexFabric adapters converged management across servers, storage and networking, and embedded management including UEFI and RESTful APIs for hybrid cloud environments.
The range covers 4 architectures-- blade, rack, tower and scale-out, allowing customers boost compute capacity and efficiency across multiple workloads, accelerate IT service delivery and improve workload performance.
“The rise of mobile, cloud, social and big data is driving the need for a new approach to the data center and its processing engine—the server—to enable successful business outcomes,” the company says. “HP created the x86 server market 25 years ago, and we have led this market ever since with innovations that have dramatically transformed the data center, such as HP Moonshot and HP Apollo. Today, we’re setting the stage for the next quarter century with HP ProLiant Gen9 Servers and compute, which combines the best of traditional IT and cloud environments to enable a truly software-defined enterprise.”
The HP ProLiant Gen9 range will be available on September 2014.
