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Your enterprise faces almost daily challenges to its computing infrastructure, and the task of planning for capacity and growth is growing ever more complex as more options are introduced into the equation. The choice facing you is easily stated, but not so easily resolved: scale up your existing infrastructure by stacking more power on top of old platforms, or scale out for a more agile, simple and cost-effective solution.
It might seem on the surface to be an easy choice – scaling out involves a new platform, and uncertainties surrounded compatibility of mission critical legacy applications. Plus, you have to worry about staffing: will your staff be able to quickly adapt to a new technology? Will you lose critical skills or personnel in the migration?
There’s good news for people asking these questions: Linux®on HP ProLiant servers offers robust compatibility for a very wide range of UNIX applications, while offering a level of familiarity to your staff and providing agile scale-out capabilities to accommodate your growing capacity.
Linux on HP BladeSystem
Many businesses are adopting data-rich solutions based on servers with larger direct attached capacity, redefining the traditional balance of computing to storage. Environments are growing larger, requiring simple management, density and power efficiency to accommodate space and power constraints.
In addition, HP BladeSystem complements Linux by offering plug and play components to minimise operator error, aggregated cabling to reduce maintenance costs, a headless design that matches the Linux remote access model, image-based deployment, infrastructure visualisation to simplify large server farm administration and Virtual Connect to reduce the complexity of network management.
Combined benefits of Linux and HP BladeSystem
The combination of Linux and HP BladeSystem provides an optimally scalable foundation for enterprise applications, while it's high level reliability enables easy scaling out, efficiency, and reduced platform costs. These factors all contribute to long-term cost savings.
Apart from saving on physical space, the hardware is easier to maintain and service than its counterparts. Virtualisation in the data centre combines with more efficient provisioning and richer management solutions to create a streamlined environment. Best of all, there are many web-based business applications and database foundations that are designed to be optimised for Linux and BladeSystem from best-in-class ISV partners.
A choice of applications gives you flexibility
The engineers who built Linux on HP BladeSystem solutions have made sure you can work smoothly with the most popular open source and packaged applications available, such as BEA, JBoss, MySQL, Oracle®, Symas, and many others. But you can also adapt your infrastructure solution to your custom applications. For example, HP BladeSystem is also enabled to run Debian, giving you the combination of flexibility and low cost with solution integration and trusted support.
This is all very good in theory, but in the real world what kind of companies are deploying Linux on HP blades, and what applications are they running? The range is impressive: for example, two of the world’s largest entertainment companies utilise Linux on Blades for online gaming, while an oil and gas exploration company uses it for geo-seismic determination of petroleum and gas reservoirs.
The time may be right to explore what Linux and HP BladeSystem can help your business achieve.
Linux is a U.S. registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Oracle is a registered US trademark of Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, California.
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