HP launches the ExSO

The companies with ''scale-out'' business models (that use Web 2.0, cloud and high-performance computing) operate with thousands of servers. At the core of the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio is the HP ProLiant SL server family, which uses a ''skinless'' systems architecture that replaces the traditional chassis and rack form factors with an extremely lightweight rail and tray design.

As a result, customers can dramatically reduce capital, facilities and shipping costs while using a fraction of the space normally required in a data centre. Additionally, its ultra-efficient, modular design enables customers to quickly and easily build solutions that meet extreme scale-out workload requirements.

The HP ExSO portfolio includes a new lightweight, super-efficient, modular systems architecture and spans data centre solutions, services and support, helping these customers reduce costs, improve facility efficiency and dramatically accelerate time to market on a massive scale.

HP claims that the portfolio enables these customers to save more than $152.8 million in reduced capital expenditures and $13.7 million in energy costs. ''Customers with scale-out business models need solutions that make every dollar, watt and square foot in the data centre count,'' said Christine Reischl, senior vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP.

''The HP ProLiant SL offers pioneering customers like these the most significant design innovation since the blade form factor, allowing them to achieve an economy of scale never before possible.'' The ultra-lightweight design eliminates 838.5 tons of server hardware. ''Businesses built on extreme scale-out environments, such as cloud, Web 2.0 and HPC, operate at maximum transaction volume and low margins,'' said Michelle Bailey, research vice president, IDC.

''These customers have very distinct and unique data centre requirements, specifically around energy efficiency, cost and time to market. The introduction of technology solutions such as the ExSO portfolio from HP are specifically addressing customer requirements for optimising capital expenditures while lowering ongoing operating costs. As a result, these solutions are helping to redefine data center economics.''