Simplified HP Server Management
What is Unified Infrastructure Management?
Unified Infrastructure Management creates a common foundation for overseeing your entire server environment from a central point of control. Because this foundation is truly unified, you are assured that every level works smoothly and efficiently together - from HP ProLiant and Integrity servers and storage to third-party hardware and software.
On the surface, it seems like a simple concept, but a truly unified foundation can only succeed if you combine the right set of advanced management tools. That’s where HP Insight Control comes in.
Introducing HP Insight Control
Insight Control represents the way we deliver on the promise of Unified Infrastructure Management. A single, integrated management solution, Insight Control combines three core elements:
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Powerful control capabilities that are embedded into HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers
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HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
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HP ProLiant Essentials management software
With Insight Control, you can transform the way you manage servers, giving you and your IT staff total control and maximum flexibility, which leads to tangible savings. HP first introduced Insight Control with the release of HP BladeSystem c-Class servers, the most recent evolution in server technology. Now they are extending it to the full portfolio of ProLiant servers, including the entire ML and DL lines.
Plus, they’re making it easier than ever for you to get the management functionality you need through easy-to-purchase Insight Control suites, which are specially designed to fit specific business environments.
Can I really achieve tangible savings?
By creating an IT infrastructure with total management control and maximum flexibility, you can make the most of every pound you invest in server assets, staff and facilities. The direct result: tangible savings that you can demonstrate.
Insight Control helps you increase the stability of your infrastructure, reducing the incidence of unplanned downtime. It also significantly decreases the time and cost of deploying, changing and updating IT assets, and optimises utilisation of server and storage resources, facilities and IT talent.
Consider, for example, these areas of potential savings:
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Significantly accelerate troubleshooting and recovery time
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Minimise travel time with remote server monitoring and control
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Reduce deployment costs by eliminating the need for manual hardware and software configuration
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Reduce security risks and speed updates by pinpointing vulnerabilities and patching them in concert
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Increase server utilisation without adding management complexity
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Save on power consumption and cooling by only using the power you need, when you need it
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Increase server deployments per data centre through accurate measures of power consumption and thermal output
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Manage more servers with the people that you have and even find the time to take on new projects
By relying on HP server-management software, you gain the capabilities to strategically link business processes with IT, automate and simplify key tasks, and cost effectively match IT assets with business demands. This ability to transform your IT environment into a business focused entity is the essence of what HP calls the Adaptive Enterprise - where business and IT are synchronised to capitalise on change.
For more information, contact your account manager or e-mail advancedsolutions@equanet.co.uk
