Massive scale out from HP

Define your data center. Don’t be defined by your data center constraints.

Data centers around the world are reaching limits in power, cooling and space. At the same time, capital constraints are requiring a rethinking of data center strategy. These limits become especially painful when they cap the amount of IT that can be deployed, thus slowing business growth. Each customer’s environments and goals are different, requiring that their technology partner of choice has a deep understanding of their IT and business demands, plus data center design, operation and strategy.

HP is delivering the HP POD as part of a complete answer to these constraints, allowing you to define your data center strategy, not be defined by it. The HP Performance-Optimized Data center (POD) is more than a data center container; it is a part of a complete data center portfolio from HP, from data center strategy and planning, to innovative products and comprehensive global support.  This means best-in-class technology to provide flexible, dense and energy-efficient data centers that can be deployed in weeks rather than months or years.

HP POD benefits:
Build an IT strategy where you can deploy capacity within weeks – where you want it, when you want it, anywhere in the world.   The HP POD slashes the time required for data center build out and reduces your current and future capital expenses by allowing you to add capacity as you need it.

• Six weeks from Purchase Order to Shipment in the U.S.; Worldwide Availability:  Whether you need the equivalent of 4,000 square feet of traditional data center capacity shipped inside of six weeks, or want to blend brick-and-mortar and container data centers into a flexible strategy – or both - turn to HP for your fully integrated customized solution, with the expertise of Critical Facilities Services delivered by EYP MCF and the IT and data center skills of HP Technology & Services.
• Industry-Standard Flexibility:  Don’t sacrifice your data center flexibility; the HP POD is designed to support almost all of the technology found in the typical data center environment.  Using standard 19” racks, front-to-back cooling and design flexibility, you can deploy your HP and/or competitive technology with minimal constraints. Your HP POD will arrive fully integrated for your heterogeneous IT environment. 
• Built-in Redundancy: Cut costs, not your uptime – N+1 capacity for the blower fans and heat exchangers combined with dual active power distribution paths provide a level of redundancy you are familiar with in your brick-and-mortar datacenters.
• Lower TCO: the HP POD requires about 20% less CAPEX than traditional brick & mortar datacenters, and allows you to pay-as-you-grow when additional capacity is needed. Put more of your power into your IT, not your infrastructure – the HP POD is 50% more energy efficient than typical data center build-outs, reducing energy cost and carbon emissions.  Designed for multiple work loads, future technology density, thermal and power needs, the HP POD provides the critical infrastructure components required to run a wide range of compute, storage and application functions.
• A new data center design alternative: A strategy that includes the HP POD delivers the fastest, most flexible, and most efficient path to data center ROI. While containers are not for every customer or workload, the HP POD allows customers to develop a flexible environment that better meets their needs.  Combining brick-and-mortar best-practices with the flexibility and advantages of containers delivers the freedom to place resources when and where they are needed, almost instantly.

Key features of the HP POD:

• Capacity for 3,520 compute nodes or 12,000 LFF hard drives, or any combination, in a 40-foot container
• Delivers the equivalent of 4,000 square feet of traditional data center space, providing customers with support for HP and 3rd party technologies, providing ultimate container flexibility
• Power capacity up to 27kW per rack  
• Conventional access to all IT equipment, including front and rear rack access, and overhead, serviceable, pod components  
• Full IT and POD management capability, either remotely or locally, throughout the technology lifecycle