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HP and Alcatel-Lucent come together for data center technology and communications networks
 HP
and Alcatel-Lucent have announced a jointly developed solution to help organizations
move, store and access vast amounts of information by integrating data center
infrastructure technology and high-performance communications networks.
The new HP and Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Network Connect (DCNC) is an integrated
architecture that brings together the strengths of data center technology with
high-performance communications networks to offer enterprises the same levels
of reliability, speed and capacity that are available on telecommunication service
provider networks – now at substantially lower cost.
This offering builds upon HP and Alcatel-Lucent’s commitment
to equip enterprises and service providers with the specific tools they need
to deliver converged systems of IT and telecom infrastructures for greater flexibility.
DCNC is the latest example of that promise, assisting enterprises in creating
efficiencies within their data centers and networks for greater agility. In
addition, HP is helping service providers deliver public cloud offerings to
customers by also announcing HP CloudSystem integration with Alcatel-Lucent
today.
“Clients are creating vast amounts of information that needs to be resourced,
distributed and shared without compromising the quality of data or the speed
at which it’s delivered,” said Uday Birje, Country Manager, Network
Consulting and Services, HP India. “HP and Alcatel-Lucent provide clients
a way to securely share extremely high volumes of data between data center sites
when and where it’s needed in an instant.”
“Alcatel-Lucent and HP’s solution is based on technology engineered
to satisfy telecommunications service providers that expect their networks to
perform with exceptional reliability and meet their needs far into the future,”
said Philippe Keryer, president, Networks Group, Alcatel-Lucent. “Large
enterprises can confidently invest in these solutions knowing that they will
receive the full benefit of their investment for years to come.”
DCNC combines HP’s breadth of technologies and services for data centers
with Alcatel-Lucent’s optical transport solutions for service providers
and its high-performance service routing and switching portfolio, which are
key elements of the Alcatel-Lucent High Leverage Network (HLN) architecture.
DCNC will leverage the strength of Alcatel-Lucent’s recently announced
CloudBand solution which accesses the power of the distributed network infrastructure
to offer large enterprises and governments access to the cloud with the quality
of service their activities require.
To address critical functions such as disaster recovery, data backup, virtual
machine mobility and the creation of cloud backbones, large enterprises and
service providers require an integrated solution that provides ultra-high bandwidth
and low latency for connecting data centers. Emerging data center trends such
as server virtualization, scale-out applications, network convergence and cloud
computing have placed new demands on data center and service provider networks.
As such, they require new designs and infrastructure technology that eliminate
bandwidth, performance and availability limitations.
The HP and Alcatel-Lucent solution brings together key data center services
and networking offerings from the portfolios of both companies. The DCNC supports
immediate data center demands such as consolidation, business continuity and
security, while laying the foundation for service-oriented, on-demand computing
technologies.
DCNC takes advantage of high-performance service routing, switching and optical
transport capabilities so clients can address the demanding requirements of
the financial services, health care and media sectors, where speed and bandwidth
capacity are crucial to delivering services.
HP Enterprise Services, which offers a range of data center services for HP’s
outsourcing clients, used Alcatel-Lucent’s 1830 PSS (Photonic Service Switch)
to create high-capacity optical links to interconnect HP’s commercial data
centers. The first two projects in Germany and Switzerland were successful,
and future deployments in other HP commercial data centers are planned.
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