The benefits of virtualizing your health datacenter
Health providers: learn how to obtain robust security while lowering energy and IT support costs
What worries you most when it comes to your IT infrastructure? Is it securing your sensitive data? Perhaps it's spiraling energy costs, rising IT support expense, or help desk response times. It may even be end-user productivity. Whatever IT concerns plague your health organization, HP can provide an end-to-end virtualization solution to help you address them head-on.
The broadest solutions, the most choices
HP virtualization solutions start in the datacenter, with a cost, space, and energy saving deployment of HP server and storage solutions:
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HP ProLiant servers are the world's best-selling servers, with leading x86 infrastructure tools, including virtualization, migration, consolidation and power management.
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HP BladeSystem servers deliver an infrastructure in a box for organizations of all sizes, with optimized server, storage, interconnect and power and cooling infrastructure.
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HP Blade Workstations and Blade PCs provide a predictable and consistent high performance computing experience.
From datacenter to desktop
Virtualization in your HP datacenter can reduce the number of servers you have in-house, along with lowering power and cooling costs and making your whole organization less complex and prone to error. HP also supports desktop virtualization requirements with a flexible Remote Client Solution offering that accommodates Server Based Computing, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Blade PC and Blade Workstation, all accessible via HP Thin Clients.
HP Thin clients are superior access devices that do not have hard drives or any moving parts, and all data is stored on virtualized servers in the datacenter, leading to significant improvements:
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Security - Your confidential patient data is secure because it resides in the datacenter, where it is not only safeguarded against theft, but is backed up regularly. Maverick applications are eliminated, and you can lock down USB ports to prevent data theft.
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Reliability - Solid state technology requires far less help desk intervention, and if a thin client experiences a failure, simply replace it, reconnect to the server, and resume work with minimal impact on productivity. Thin clients also last longer - up to eight years - than traditional desktop PCs.
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Manageability - HP Thin Clients are nearly 'instant-on', with quick boot times that get your users up and running sooner.
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Energy savings - Thin clients use an average of 80 percent less energy (25 watts on average as opposed to 170 watts).
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Space savings - Thin clients are very small compared to traditional desktops, and they can be clipped to flat panel monitors, or beneath desks or behind walls in tight spaces.
No matter whether you standardize on VMware or Citrix for your virtualization software, HP can accommodate with simple deployment and communication options as well as software solutions that optimize and automate the interoperability of your virtualization software and hardware platforms.
Not every Client Virtualization architecture meets the goals (functionally or commercially) of every user computing requirement and therefore HP delivers across the solution spectrum:
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Server Based Computing provides remote application access to a shared, centralized desktop operating environment, and is ideal for basic tasks, such as order entry.
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure delivers Basic Productivity users the ability to access and use their Virtual Desktop residing in the datacenter.
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Blade PCs and Blade Workstations provide fully functional and personalized desktops delivered via a connection between an HP Thin Client and a blade PC or blade workstation in a centralized data center. End users can access their personalized environments, applications, and data from almost anywhere they can connect to their network.
HP Thin Clients
Whether you need a basic terminal for Server Based Computing, a touch screen terminal for kiosks, or a specialized mobile thin client, HP has a model for you. New in 2008, you'll also find significant enhancements to the line, including:
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Remote Graphics Software (RGS) support for multimedia and 3D graphics applications support
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Available onboard Citrix and VMware broker technology for VMWare, VDI and Citrix XenDesktop
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Faster processors, with expanded memory
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Secure USB compartments
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Expanded management support, including licensed Altiris Deployment Solution
Visit hp.com and explore the wide variety of HP Thin Clients and Client Virtualization solutions available to your organization.
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