An HP BladeSystem is an infrastructure in a box. With it, you can build vital solutions to support your business that are more affordable, take less time to maintain, use less power and are ready to grow with you.

In an all-in-one design, you have the essentials to build and maintain your infrastructure from start to finish. Inside, you can host a choice from thousands of applications on Windows®, Linux, HP-UX and more. You can support a combination of virtual machines, storage and server blades—ProLiant, Integrity and StorageWorks—plus connect to a variety of the most popular networking brands and standards including Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand.

HP blades range from servers and storage devices to workstations and virtual desktops. Many of HP’s most popular products that you may be familiar with are now available in a blade design. Each blade is inserted into the BladeSystem enclosure which provides redundancy, network connections and a more efficient, shared power and cooling design. To help setup and maintain your blades, a variety of tools are also built-in to help you at every step.

Benefits of the HP BladeSystem

• Cost-savvy: The consolidated design is more affordable to buy and efficient to own than conventional IT
  Integrated redundancy from the start; fewer wires and other components save up to 40% less than rack-mount infrastructures
• Change-ready: HP Virtual Connect and a modular design lower barriers to change and speed growth
  Add, replace and recover resources on the fly without rewiring
• Energy-thrifty: HP Thermal Logic technology improves efficiency by managing power and cooling as a resource
  Use up to 30% less power and push less hot air into the data center
• Time-smart: HP Insight Control manages an automated infrastructure to save valuable time
  Increased administrator productivity, simple inventory, provisioning and recovery plus rapid patching and repairing