VIDEO : Using Intelligent Management Center to satisfy HP's BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) requirements

During this video presentation, John Lino, Chief Network Architect, HP IT, and Jeff Sprankle, Wireless Architect, HP IT, will discuss HP's wireless transformation. You'll learn about the vital role the company's Intelligent Management Center played in creating a new user experience.



If you have any questions or need a solution surrounding BYOD then please do not hesitate to contact your Westcoast account manager.

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Video of the Week : HP 3PAR - The next generation of storage

Virtualization is transforming data centers. But this shift is also placing new demands on infrastructure that legacy storage platforms were never designed to handle.

The next generation of Tier 1 storage, HP 3PAR Utility Storage was built from the ground up to exceed the economic and operational requirements of even the most demanding and dynamic IT environments. HP 3PAR Utility Storage delivers 100% of the agility and efficiency demanded by the virtual data center and cloud computing. It does this through an innovative, purpose-built architecture that offers secure multitenancy, built-in thin processing capabilities, and unique autonomic management and storage tiering features.

Get the SAN infrastructure performance, scalability, and availability you need to transform your data center and enable virtual and cloud computing.



If you need help with a 3PAR storage solution then please contact us and we will provide a tailored solution to your customers needs.

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Solutions Team Spotlight & Video of the week : HP Integrated Lights-Out Advanced features

This weeks spotlight and Video of the week is on HP's Integrated Lights out Advanced features.

Firstly what is Integrated Light out (iLO)?
HP Integrated Lights-Out provides standard and advanced levels of lights-out, remote management functionality. Basic system board management functions, diagnostics and essential Lights-Out functionality are provided as standard features of the server and are referred to as Integrated Lights-Out Standard.

So what are these Advanced features?
Integrated Lights-Out Advanced offer sophisticated virtual administration features for full control of servers in dynamic data center and remote locations, please watch the following video which explains the features of Advanced iLO.



HP Integrated lights out is not only available on its own but it also comes bundled with HP Insight control environment which is a full management suite, for more information on Insight control environment please see this post

if you wish to know more information about iLO advanced or Insight control environment then please do not hesitate to contact us and we will be more than happy to help.

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Video of the Week : HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions

The HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SANs, deliver enterprise functionality that enhances virtual environments, simplifies management, and reduces costs. They are easy to deploy and to maintain. They ensure that critical business data remain available through using multiple nodes, Network raid and replication capabilities and technologies.

The features of the P4000 G2 systems include Storage Clustering, Network RAID 0, 5, 6, 10, 10+1, and 10+2 (Synchronous Replication), Thin Provisioning, Application Integrated Snapshots, Remote Copy (Asynchronous Replication with Bandwidth Throttling) Multi-Site HA/DR Solution (Synchronous Replication across several locations), Online Volume Migration and automated Software Upgrades, Self-Healing Storage.



All P4000 units use Hot plug drives, redundant PSU's as well as the option of running 10Gbe connections, battery backed write cache is used on all storage controllers.

HP's innovative approach to storage provides a unique data protection level across the entire SAN which reduces vulnerability without increasing costs. Each P4000 SAN includes hardware, software, and 3yrs support to get you up and running in one swift motion.

For more information please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Video of the Week : HP Networking and the 2010 Ryder Cup

Organisers of The 2010 Ryder Cup required a highly reliable wired and wireless networking infrastructure to satisfy the needs of the media, spectators and hospitality users.

“Thanks to HP Networking, we had no downtime, With live golf action, there is no second chance; there is no room for failure. HP helped to make The 2010 Ryder Cup a roaring success.” Graham Gifford, ICT Director for the European Tour and Ryder Cup Europe.



With players regularly shooting birdies and eagles throughout the competition, the highly reliable HP Networking solution rapidly conveyed the latest scores from wireless Access Points, ensuring spectators, the media and hospitality users quickly knew about the latest action.

Photographers and journalists used the network’s Internet connectivity and email capability to despatch images and reports to publishing houses worldwide whilst its open standards technology and Quality of Service (QoS) features allowed the event’s organisers to employ Mitel IP telephony. “By introducing this technology into our scoring network, we have eliminated the human error associated with the old paper-based process.

So when a player scored a birdie, everybody knew about it as it happened, not five minutes afterwards,” adds Gifford. “This clever technology also allows us to define varying levels of connectivity in different areas in a very straightforward way, making life simpler for all.”

Ryder Cup Europe staff also benefited from the solution’s ease of configuration and manageability. “The HP switches are easy to setup and configure and, unlike other vendor solutions, you do not need a degree in rocket science,” comments Gifford. “The management component of the solution is ideal because we could rapidly deploy wireless access to different areas and, if there is a network issue, we can see it and deal with it instantly, all from a single console.”

“For a global event like the Ryder Cup, it is crucial that our networking infrastructure works seamlessly. The HP Networking solution did just that,” concludes Gifford

If you have a networking solution you would like us to help you with then please contact us and we will be than happy to help.

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Video of the Week : HP Flex Fabric Technology

HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric Modules are the simplest, most flexible way to connect virtualized server blades to data or storage networks.

VC FlexFabric modules eliminate up to 95% of network sprawl at the server edge with one device that converges traffic inside enclosures and directly connects to external LANs and SANs.

Using Flex-10 technology with Fibre Channel over Ethernet and accelerated iSCSI, these modules converge traffic over high speed 10Gb connections to servers with HP FlexFabric Adapters (HP NC551i or HP NC551m Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb Converged Network Adapters or HP NC553i 10Gb 2-port FlexFabric Converged Network Adapter).

Each redundant pair of Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules provide 8 adjustable downlink connections (six Ethernet and two Fibre Channel, or six Ethernet and 2 iSCSI or eight Ethernet) to dual port10Gb FlexFabric Adapters on servers. Up to eight uplinks are available for connection to upstream Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches. VC FlexFabric modules avoid the confusion of traditional and other converged network solutions by eliminating the need for multiple Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches, extension modules, cables and software licenses. Also, Virtual Connect wire-once connection management is built-in enabling server adds, moves and replacement in minutes instead of days or weeks.



If you wish to know more about HP's Flex fabric technology or you wish to discuss your server requirements in more detail then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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NEW FEATURE : HP Video of the Week

New to the Blog we will be uploading a HP video of the week - Enjoy



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