June 2006, by Susan Twombly
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Authorized HP partners can help design and implement a CCI solution to seamlessly integrate into your environment and accelerate your time-to-results. HP Certified Professionals with ASE – HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure [2006] credential are specially trained to have a high degree of competence in CCI. Contact your HP representative or systems integrator today to learn more.
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Want some help in slashing through IT cost and complexity while ensuring the security of your end users' data? Check out HP's Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI).
CCI is a flexible, cost-effective alternative to traditional end user computing needs that leverages industry-leading products, technologies and services from HP to deliver a more centralized, easy-to-manage solution.
As a result, you can have greater control over system resources to reduce IT management costs while you help increase data security and decrease risks — and all while maintaining a familiar and personalized desktop experience for users.
HP's bc1500 blade PC is the engine under the hood of CCI. Powered by the AMD Athlon 64-bit processor, this PC has up to 2 gigs of memory and 2 network interface cards (NICs) for impressive throughput -increasing performance, decreasing energy consumption and easing your transition to new operating systems.
In addition, new HP management tools can help you flexibly allocate and manage blade PC resources to respond effectively to changing business demands.
The HP bc1500 Blade PC offers a one-to-one blade PC-to-end user connection and uses the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, which is fully licensed and supported. This one-to-one connection side-steps the porting and performance issues often associated with server-based computing architectures. Through Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection software, CCI provides users with consistent and reliable connectivity to their blade PCs.
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Learn more about the new HP bc1500 blade PC and how HP has brought the latest generation of CCI to key markets in Asia Pacific.
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As each user connects via an access device and a secure log in, they are dynamically allocated to a dedicated blade PC, which retrieves their unique profile from networked storage. Once authenticated, they land on a Windows XP-based blade PC, which has all their applications and favorite settings — from saved Internet locations to pictures of their kids on their desktop.
With CCI, this all happens transparently and faster than it does with a traditional desktop PC. So, users have the convenience and familiarity of a traditional desktop environment for a consistent, predictable experience.
Dynamic allocation can greatly increase availability. Recovery time from device failure can be reduced from days to just minutes. In the rare circumstance that a blade PC does fail, end users can simply log back on to be automatically connected to a new blade PC — without a call to the help desk.
Further, users can access blade PCs and storage resources from any location in the world with network connectivity and an access device running the remote Microsoft connection software. Whether at a kiosk at the Tokyo airport or an Internet café in France, they can quickly tap into to their blade PC and data files, and do so without actually downloading any files, greatly reducing security risks.
With CCI, you have one centralized point of control, eliminating the complexities associated with deploying and managing distributed desktop PCs. You can unburden your IT team because devices inside and outside the data center can be efficiently managed from a central site, significantly reducing the need for desk-side system support and speeding problem resolution.
HP's new PC Session Allocation Manager (SAM) is a software management tool optimized for the CCI environment. By allowing you to manage all remote desktop connections — from user access devices to their computing resources in the data center — HP SAM becomes the control center for CCI and unifies the provisioning, management and migration of CCI resources.
As part of the HP BladeSystem portfolio, CCI also leverages HP's other proven management tools — Rapid Deployment Pack and System Insight Manager. Combined with SAM, these tools allow you to intelligently monitor and control your infrastructure as a whole.
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Speed time to benefit with HP Factory Express
Based on your specifications, HP's Factory Express facilities can deliver complete racked, configured and tested CCI solutions right to your datacenter.
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CCI improves data security by limiting traditional desktop computing risks, such as theft, viruses and lost data. "Locked-down" blade PCs in the data center prohibit end users from downloading uncertified software. With all storage resources centrally located in the data center — not in user areas — sensitive business, customer and employee data is better protected.
With a more secure, centralized CCI model, your IT staff can install the latest security patches, easily prove compliance for all software licenses and help ensure correct and consistent version control to all CCI supported users. For business continuity and data protection, back up and recovery of end user data is easier, too.
CCI provides the opportunity to dramatically lower desktop total cost of ownership (TCO). Even companies that have adopted Gartner's best practices for desktop management may see additional benefits. In fact, HP estimates that a CCI solution can deliver up to 50 percent reduction in TCO over a four-year lifecycle. (1) And Blade PCs contribute to those savings with the lowest power and cooling requirements in the industry.(2)
Learn more about HP's Consolidated Client Infrastructure solution today to enhance data security and start slashing through IT cost and complexity.
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HP estimate of total cost of ownership savings due to CCI implementation over a typical desktop PC implementation during a 4-year period based on a hypothetical customer with 10,000 users in a single environment with 70 percent concurrent access. |
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Maximum of ~7.6kw per full rack of 280 blades (standard SKU) in a single industry-standard 42U rack. |
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