HP Offers Data Center Build Services

There is a new option available for data center managers seeking to incorporate or upgrade an all-inclusive facility solution within their company's technology infrastructure. HP, the technology giant, recently announced the availability of their new data center construction services; an offering that rounds out an already existing line of high level data center related services. With the addition of this new service, organizations have the ability to receive a unified solution straight from HP.

HP may be well known by many for its vast line-up of consumer and business targeted handheld, notebook, and desktop computers. In corporate circles, IT professionals are more than familiar with the popular line of Proliant network servers and related communications equipment. Technology needs and demands from today's businesses expand beyond these devices, and offerings from HP don't stop there. In addition to these familiar computing based solutions; HP is also offering a growing catalogue of IT implementation services. Geared towards businesses with a need for fully planned, optimized and managed infrastructure, the newly added construction service compliments HP's existing design, testing, and operating solutions.

Part of HP's Critical Facilities Services (CFS) unit, the construction service results from an earlier acquisition by HP of EYP Mission Critical Facilities. With strategy, the goal of construction services is to provide a single and unified point for data center implementations, where-as this type of task may usually be divided between many contractors and service organizations. The service's all inclusive turnkey capabilities cover expanding a current center or building one from the ground up with faster implementation times and lower associated costs. Additionally, as companies use the service, HP conveniently places themselves in a unique sales position where they may offer additional solutions such as servers and more.

The new construction based service also expands upon the company's other data center facility build service named HP Pod. Introduced late last year, Pod, known as Performance-Optimized Datacenter, is a build-to-ship data center container service that provides businesses with flexible portable facility space when an in-house solution may not be possible. As an alternative to building, Pods allow for an IT facility footprint to expand quickly in cases of expanded growth, mergers, acquisitions, relocations, and potential disaster recovery situations. An HP Pod is capable for delivering an equivalence of 4,000 square feet of data center space with a capacity for over 3,500 compute nodes, 12,000 hot plug hard drives, or a mixed combination. The Pod service is also an offering that spans from HP's acquisition of EYP MCF.

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