HP to address IT woes caused by 4 mega trends

MANILA, Philippines -- Hewlett-Packard Philippines introduced Wednesday its latest line of servers dubbed HP Moonshot system meant to address the challenges brought about by today's four mega trends in information technology.

Veronica Escalante, Category Manager of Industry Standard Servers and Software for HP Philippines, said the company's new class of servers are engineered to address the challenges created by social, cloud, mobile and big data.

"The HP Moonshot is built for specialized infrastructure and specific workload, optimized for Web hosting that is meant to achieve market differentiation, better realization and faster return in investments," Escalante said.

Compared to traditional servers, Escalante said the technology promises to deliver a compelling new infrastructure economics by using up to 89 percent less energy, 80 percent less space and 77 percent less cost.

"The technology is targeted at companies with Internet scale," Escalante said.

The new HP Moonshot system is the second-generation server from HP’s Project Moonshot. The servers are built from chips more commonly found in smartphones and tablets, which allow the servers to deliver reduced energy use and a high-density footprint.

The HP Moonshot system consists of the HP Moonshot 1500 enclosure and application-optimized HP ProLiant Moonshot servers. These servers will offer processors from multiple HP partners, each targeting a specific workload.

With support for up to 1,800 servers per rack, HP Moonshot servers occupy one-eighth of the space required by traditional servers. This offers a solution to the problem of physical data center space.

Each chassis shares traditional components including the fabric, HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLo) management, power supply and cooling fans. These shared components reduce complexity as well as add to the reduction in energy use and space.   

The first HP ProLiant Moonshot server is available with the Intel Atom S1200 processor and supports web-hosting workloads. HP Moonshot 1500, a 4.3u server enclosure, is fully equipped with 45 Intel-based servers one network switch and supporting components.

Scheduled to be released in the second half of 2013, the new HP ProLiant Moonshot servers will support emerging web, cloud and massive scale environments, as well as analytics and telecommunications. Future servers will be delivered for big data, high-performance computing, gaming, financial services, economics, facial recognition, video analysis and other applications.  

More than 20 years ago, HP introduced the first commercial UNIX server, the HP 9000 Series 840, as well as the first x86 server, the HP SystemPro. More than a decade later, HP was granted one of the first patents for blade server architectures. The company has remained the x86 server market leader for the last 16 years.