What Is Data Centre Infrastructure?
Data centre infrastructure is the hardware and software used to support the function of data centres. The term usually refers to the physical data centres environment, including the power, cooling and cabling systems needed to keep equipment operational. Data centre infrastructure solutions providers offer products and data centres services that help organisations to design, build, operate and manage their data centres more effectively.
Types of Data Centre Solutions
Data centre infrastructure solutions can be broadly divided into three main categories:
1. Data Centre Design and Construction Solutions
Data centres design and construction solutions providers offer a range of services to help organisations plan, build and commission new data centre facilities. This can include everything from feasibility studies and capacity planning to full turnkey design and build services.
2. Data Centre Facilities Management Solutions
Data centre facilities management solutions providers offer a range of products and data centre services to help organisations operate their data centres more effectively. This can include anything from energy management and monitoring systems to heat containment solutions and cooling optimization services.
3. Data Centre Infrastructure Management Solutions
Data centre infrastructure management solutions providers offer a range of products and services to help organisations manage their data centres environments more effectively. This can include anything from server virtualization and consolidation solutions to network monitoring and security solutions.
The tower server is a type of server design that gets its name from its tall, vertical chassis. Tower servers are designed to be placed on the floor and can be easily expanded by adding more disk drives, memory or other types of expansion cards. Some Tower Servers can also be rack mounted.
A rack server is a type of server that gets its name from the fact that it is designed to be mounted in a 19-inch frame or “rack”. Rack servers are usually much thinner than tower servers and take up less space, making them ideal for data centres where space is at a premium.
A blade server is a specialised type of server that gets its name from the fact that it uses long “blades” that can be inserted into a “blade chassis”. Blade servers are designed to be very compact and take up less space than traditional rack or tower servers.
Storage for the Intelligence Era.
Flash storage is a type of solid-state storage that uses flash memory to store data. Flash storage is faster than traditional hard drives and can be used in a variety of applications, such as boot drives, primary storage drives and cache drives. Flash storage is a data storage technology based on high-speed, electrically programmable memory, hence its name.
Spindle storage is a type of data storage that uses spinning disks, or platters, to store data. Spindle storage is the most common type of data storage and is used in a variety of applications, such as hard drives, optical drives and tape drives. The main advantage of spindle storage over flash storage is its lower cost.
Hybrid storage is a type of data storage that combines the benefits of both flash storage and spindle storage. Hybrid storage is faster than spindle storage and can be used in a variety of applications, such as hard drives, optical drives and tape drives. The main advantage of hybrid storage over flash or spindle storage is its lower cost.
HPE Data Centre Servers
HPE Apollo Systems
High performance computing for scale-out environments. The HPE Apollo systems with rack-scale efficiency deliver reliable performance and adaptability with flexible systems that are optimized for HPC and AI workloads.
HPE Nimble Storage All-Flash Arrays
Predicts and prevents issues to help deliver 99.9999% guaranteed availability1 and resolves 86% of issues2 before you even know there’s a problem.
HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays
Hybrid flash for mixed, mainstream workloads. Secondary flash for backup and disaster recovery.
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI
Disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI) provides the flexibility to scale storage and compute independently, making it ideal for mission critical environments, data bases and data warehouses.
BladeSystem
One infrastructure with one management platform. Support both your business objectives and your business growth using innovative technology for virtualisation and the most demanding workloads.
HPE ProLiant Gen10 Servers
The HPE ProLiant Gen10 server is a new generation of servers that offer greater cyber security, efficiency and flexibility. The HPE ProLiant Gen10 server range includes Tower, Rack and Blade servers that are designed to meet business needs.
HPE ProLiant DL Servers
Secure and versatile rack-optimised servers with a balance of performance, capacity, and manageability.
Mission Critical Servers
Mission Critical Infrastructure, Products and Services.
HPE Superdome Flex
Uniquely modular, highly flexible, and reliable platform that scales from 4 to 32 processors as a single system and delivers 768 GB to 48 TB of shared memory.
HPE NonStop Systems
Experience 100% availability, massive scalability and operational efficiency with a fully integrated, fault-tolerant software stack.
Moonshot System
A complete server system engineered for specific workloads and delivered in a dense, energy-efficient package.
HPE NonStop X Servers
Mitigate the risk of downtime while meeting large scale business processing, online transaction processing (OLTP), and database requirements. NonStop delivers a comprehensive fully integrated software stack specially designed for fault tolerance and scalability and is tuned to specific business needs.
HPE NonStop NS8 X4 systems
High-end NonStop systems with a discreet CPU architecture, new form-factor and an upgraded system interconnect with higher raw bandwidth. These systems provide massive scalability with extreme performance for high-volume transaction processing (OLTP) and mission critical workloads.
HPE NonStop NS4 X4 systems
Entry-class NonStop systems with a new form-factor, discreet CPU architecture and a new system interconnect with higher raw bandwidth. These systems are meant for smaller enterprises and emerging markets, as well as distributed computing and test/development environments.
HPE NonStop X NS7
The NS7 system extends the 100% fault-tolerant NonStop platform to include the x86 architecture. It offers the highest level of availability for enterprise scale x86 architecture. You can trust it to meet your complete solution requirements.
HPE Edgeline Converged Edge Systems
Edge computing that delivers secure control and accelerates time to insight from the industrial Internet of Things. Edge environments are those that are geographically remote or have limited connectivity.
HPE Synergy Frame
A single intelligent physical infrastructure that combines compute, storage, and fabric so all resources are instantly available to run any business applications.
HPE Synergy COMPUTE
Compute modules that can be ready to boot in fewer than 30 seconds and be provisioned with pooled storage, network connectivity and image.
HPE Synergy STORAGE
High-density, integrated storage for a new level of simplicity, density and flexibility (SDS, DAS and SAN options supporting file, block and object storage).
HPE Synergy FABRIC NETWORKING
Rack-scale, multi-fabric connectivity that eliminated standalone top-of-rack (TOR) switches.
Server Options
HPE Qualified Options are also integrated with many HPE system management tools and can help lower your operations costs when compared to other non-HPE products.
HPE SimpliVity
Enjoy an intelligent hyperconverged platform that speeds application performance, improves efficiency and resiliency, and backs up/restores VMs in seconds.
Data Center Infrastructure Security
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