HP Intros Energy-Efficient Blade for Oracle

The 1-to-4-terabyte market segment within the Oracle (News - Alert) Optimized Warehouse initiative today received an energy-efficient blade offering from HP, according to the companies.

 

The HP BladeSystem for Oracle Optimized Warehouse takes the current reference configuration solutions available from HP and Oracle for data warehousing further, company officials say.

 

Compared to other offerings within the Oracle initiative, they say, HP worked closely with Oracle to create the joint product, which provides customers with up to 2.5 times higher performance and up to 65 percent reduced energy costs. Savings obtained from performance and energy efficiency can be used to get the rising cost of power and tightening data center budgets, company officials say.

 

HP BladeSystem offers the basic elements of a data warehouse infrastructure – compute, storage, interconnect and management – all together into a modular, self-optimizing unit. Customers can now save time, power and money in small and large data centers as HP BladeSystem is an infrastructure in a box. Customers can look to improve management with Insight Control by simplifying networking with Virtual Connect, address power and cooling concerns with Thermal Logic, according to the company.

 

With Oracle, HP is seeking to develop a data warehouse solution that’s easy to purchase and deploy. The combined innovation of Oracle and HP is expected to provide good performance and unprecedented energy efficiency for data warehousing, company officials say.

 

Global technology distributor Avnet Technology Solutions (News - Alert) and its select network of value-added resellers and system integrators will offer the HP BladeSystem for Oracle Optimized Warehouse.

 

It is expected to begin shipping in July, according to the companies.

 

The Oracle Optimized Warehouse initiative is expected to provide data warehousing solutions based on Oracle Database pre-installed on hardware that is configured and optimized for high-performance data warehousing, company officials say.

 

“Customers are looking to harness information to drive profit and growth,” said Ben Barnes, a vice president and general manager at HP. “With our new HP BladeSystem offering, along with a comprehensive business intelligence portfolio and a world-class services organization, HP is able to meet customers’ business intelligence needs today and into the future.”