HP Cloudline

HP Cloudline is a line of the server systems focused on the cloud providers interested in not the branded (white box) equipment.

On March 12, 2015 it became known of the beginning of deliveries of the server Cloudline systems from HP. The company announced release of family of the server Cloudline systems intended to providers of cloud services with large-scale perspectives of growth. According to representatives of vendor, the server line of Cloudline will find application for service providers, suppliers of content and for processing of Big Data^[1].

Characteristics of the Cloudline servers will meet the OCP Open Rack and Open Cloud Server specifications. The Open Cloud Server specifications were brought into accord with OCP by Microsoft company. The servers designed according to the OCP specifications allow to standardize the system of inputs and outputs, systems managements, components of storage and network technologies.

The server of the Cloudline family is CL1100, 2015

Server of the Cloudline family, 2015

As a part of Cloudline line:

• CL7300: a 2-processor rack for computing applications with big loading of memory and drives.

• CL7100: more available 2-processor rack for computing applications with big loading of memory and drives.

• CL2200: inexpensive 2-processor server solution in a form factor 2U from high capacity for work with Big Data and cloud transactions with intensive loading of drives.

• CL2100: a multitasking 2-processor system of a form factor 1U for calculations with a heavy load for memory and drives.

• CL1100: the inexpensive 2-processor system of a form factor 1U for ensuring effective performance of web interfaces.

The Cloudline servers, according to analysts, will be 10-25% cheaper, than standard models of HP servers with comparable characteristics.

The production load on creation of the Cloudline servers is undertaken by the Taiwan Foxconn.

It is expected that sales of the Cloudline systems will begin on March 30, 2015.

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