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HP has announced it’s new line of servers HP ProLiant Gen8. The servers are a result of a $300 million, two-year program called Project Voyager, the company’s initiative to automate every aspect of the server life cycle. Project Voyager has resulted in more than 900 patents filed and a new systems architecture called HP ProActive Insight architecture, which will span the entire HP Converged Infrastructure.
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“The sky rocketing cost of operations in the data center is unsustainable, and enterprises are looking at solving this problem. We are delivering innovative intelligence technologies that enable servers to virtually take care of themselves, allowing data center staff to devote more time to business innovation,” said Vikram K, Director, Industry Standard Servers, HP India.
HP claims that it’s new line of servers triples administrator productivity by eliminating most manual operations such as server updates, which typically take five hours of administrator time per rack of servers. The new series also features HP 3-D Sea of Sensors, that identifies overutilized servers based on real-time location, power, workload and temperature data, increasing compute capacity per watt of energy by 70%. HP ProLiant Gen8 automatically analyzes its own health across 1,600 data points.
HP ProLiant Gen8’s ProActive Insight architecture comprises of hardware and software that delivers server life cycle automation. At the same time, it provides continuous intelligence on server health, power usage and other important diagnostics. As a result, online system updates can be deployed three times faster, with as much as 93% less downtime.
Project Voyager is the third phase of HP’s multi-year transformation plan for the server market, which began in November 2011 with Project Moonshot.
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