HP and Alcatel-Lucent Bring Together the Power of Data Center Technology and Communications Networks
HP and Alcatel-Lucent Bring Together the Power of Data Center Technology and Communications Networks
Paris, France, December 1, 2011 – @PR2WEB - HP (NYSE: HPQ) and
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today 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 Arthur Filip, vice president and general manager,
Technology Consulting, HP. “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.”
Generating enterprise-wide flexibility with data center enhancements
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.
Client benefits include:
- Increased network performance with faster, more reliable throughput. This
results in a highly reliable networking system for e-business applications,
business communications and network-based business services.
- Improved time to market through an integrated hardware, software and
services solution that combines data center technologies with consulting
capabilities to assist clients with implementation and support.
- Enhanced flexibility and agility within the network using an open
standards-based design so clients can meet and exceed service-level agreements.
- Reduced total cost of ownership by making the network more efficient by
consolidating and connecting multiple protocols and storage area networks and by
enabling other resource-sharing capabilities among various locations.
- Superior reliability to support today’s 24/7 business needs.
Availability and pricing
HP and Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Network Connect consists of existing
products and product-attached services from HP and Alcatel-Lucent that are
available globally now. The services are currently available in select locations
with expected global and consolidated availability by year end.
About the HP and Alcatel-Lucent Global Alliance
The HP and Alcatel-Lucent global alliance helps service providers and large
enterprises evolve toward converged IT and telecom infrastructures that are more
efficient, flexible and adapted to the needs of fast-changing markets. Together,
HP and Alcatel-Lucent bring to market the world’s broadest set of capabilities
to support customers’ business transformation.
The alliance is currently rolling out comprehensive customer offerings such
as the DCNC solution that take full advantage of both companies’ product
portfolios for the enterprise and telecom markets.
About HP
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people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology
company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing,
software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and
connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a
connected world. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at 
http://www.hp.com.
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About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic
industries and governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leader in
mobile, fixed, IP and Optics technologies, and a pioneer in applications and
services. Alcatel-Lucent includes Bell Labs, one of the world's foremost centres
of research and innovation in communications technology.
With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most experienced
global services organizations in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner
with global reach.
The Company achieved revenues of Euro 16 billion in 2010 and is incorporated
in France and headquartered in Paris.
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