BladeSystem basics

A BladeSystem is an infrastructure in a box. With it, you can build vital business solutions that are more affordable, take less time to maintain, use less power and are ready to grow with you. With its all-in-one design, you have the essentials to build, maintain and upgrade your infrastructure from start to finish. Inside, you can host a choice of thousands of applications on Windows®, Linux, HP-UX and more with a combination of virtual machines, storage and server blades – Integrity, StorageWorks and ProLiant – and a variety of the most popular networking brands and standards.

Why blades make sense

A BladeSystem is simply a smarter way to build an infrastructure that supports the vital applications your business requires – with fewer wires, lower electric bills and none of the headaches from the choices you have today. With a streamlined foundation in place, you can deliver topline business results to grow faster, get to market quickly and empower your employees, partners and customers. But who has the time and money to plan, build and maintain an infrastructure that competes with the giant data centres of the Fortune 500? With BladeSystem behind the scenes, you do. Before BladeSystem ever arrives at your door, we do a lot of the hard work up front that you now have to do on your own. we built in the networking to help you cut the number of cables up to 94 per cent.

1 HP added a smarter power and cooling system to save you more than 26 per cent on power versus other blade choices, without sacrificing performance.

2 HP added servers and storage inside the same infrastructure for zero-cable data protection and storage expansion. They included easy ways to manage it all; so one person can do the job of many.

BladeSystem helps you plan for redundancy and recovery from the start and is combined with the best technology from across HP to make your unique BladeSystem not only easy to use, but useful to you.

HP's Engineers test thousands of business and infrastructure software packages so you can run the same applications and operating systems you run today. They work with other leading companies to build cool technologies and solutions inside. Then, we help you choose the right combination of server, storage and network blades for your applications to build a better solution in less time, with less money and that uses less power. No one knows exactly where their business will be tomorrow. But wherever you take it, HP BladeSystem will be ready when you get there.

Benefits of BladeSystems

Use fewer wires. Save power. Maintain with less effort. Get some time back. Growing companies are adopting HP BladeSystem as the IT foundation for their business faster than any other blade architecture. BladeSystem helps them save money, grow flexibly and use less power with a unique combination of benefits that traditional rack-based server and storage systems simply can’t match.