HPE Helion Rack

Helion Rack is previously configured and tested platform of a private cloud on the basis of OpenStack and Cloud Foundry.

On March 26, 2015 submitted to HP the Helion Rack platform. Innovation is focused on assistance to IT departments in economy of months of work at design, development and deployment of a private cloud. A system integrates a cloud platform, infrastructure components and practicians in single integrated solution.

Helion Rack, 2015

HP Helion Rack helps to select quickly infrastructure for developers and production loads. This solution is optimized for placement of applications, it is required to which protected, corresponding to regulations and high-performance infrastructure, and provides the platform for development, testing and deployment of cloud applicaions.

HP Helion Rack is the full-function private cloud providing IaaS services (infrastructure as service) and PaaS (the platform as service) for support of cloud applicaions.

Properties

• Profitability of private cloud environments: Integrated by software open source and the hardware of standard architecture accelerates implementation of the private clouds providing the platform optimized under cloud loadings.

• Fast deployment: Collected at the plant taking into account checked the practician and the HP solution deployed by experts saves months of design, testing and setup.

• Simple management: the standard hardware-software architecture simplifies support, administration, updating and service.

• Easy scaling: horizontal scaling by adding of nodes of storage and computing nodes and also vertical scaling of each node.

• Flexible support of workloads: flexible infrastructure provides high performance at transaction processing with low delays at observance of security requirements and regulations.

• Rapid development of cloud applicaions: convenient access to the integrated application services, such as services of the database and bus of messages which provide scalability and high availability of applications.

• Open architecture: use of OpenStack technology and software of Cloud Foundry provides flexibility in placement of workloads, support of different languages and development environments, the choice of management tools and costs planning.

The HP solution of Helion Rack, including HP Helion OpenStack, HP Helion Development Platform and HP servers of ProLiant DL, gathers on the HP plants and is delivered ready to installation.

Prices and availability

According to plans of HP, the solution Helion Rack will be available for sale in April, 2015. Cost depends on a configuration.