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Think of the new HP ProLiant DL785 G5 as a power tool for consolidation. The key word is “more” – more sockets, more memory, more I/O power – all designed to help with the drive toward virtualisation and consolidation that is tearing through data centres around the world.

As Forrester reports, “Adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated dramatically in North America since 2005, with 51 percent of enterprises now using or piloting the technology. In tandem, interest in server virtualisation has grown worldwide, with a notable leap in Asia Pacific.” (1)

The growing popularity of virtualisation isn’t just a geographical phenomenon; it’s moving straight into the core of what makes businesses profitable. As IDC analysts recently wrote in the firm’s September 2007 Worldwide and Regional Server Forecast Update(2), “virtualisation has rapidly moved from a means to extract higher levels of server utilisation to a technology that makes IT more responsive to the business, including higher levels of availability.” (3)

Now the eight-socket DL785 – with its abundance of everything that makes consolidation work right – adds multicore power to the virtualisation engine. IDC says that “multicore combined with technology such as virtualisation, blades and a new class of data centre management tools will increase the resiliency and availability level of IT infrastructure.” (4)

The result? A server that can help take virtualisation and consolidation efforts to a whole new level. Pete Wilson, NSA Systems Manager at RiptownMedia.com, a provider of services and software to media companies, explains, “We demand a lot from our HP ProLiant – high memory bandwidth and low latency – something the ProLiant DL585 has handled expertly for years. The new, affordable eight-socket HP ProLiant DL785 offers an excellent avenue for scaling our database applications to meet our clients’ increasing transactional volume, with low risk and high return.”

For example, the combination of eight sockets and four-core processors means that businesses get the power of 32 processors in the same server. Memory, I/O and storage are more powerful, too, with up to 256 GB of memory, 11 PCI-e expansion slots, and up to 2.3TB of internal storage. That means the DL785 can run a variety of heavy-duty loads that can now reside on the same 7U machine.

The DL785 comes at a critical time of change in the way that businesses are applying technology to create new value. As Forrester recently reported, “Until now, infrastructure consolidation was an exercise in data centre operational efficiency, but it is now a key element in the IT-to-business technology (BT) transformation.” (5)

And as server sprawl starts to affect virtual servers, consolidation capabilities become even more important in achieving business goals.

The Forrester report goes on to explain that “In this new world, almost every element of business operation is embodied in the technology it uses, and an organisation’s ability to leverage technology directly affects business results.”(6) The DL785 rides this trend with a speed that can propel business consolidation efforts for years to come.

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