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HP is releasing its first-ever line of devices designed specificially to make data center connectivity for easier and more efficient.

Hewlett-Packard ProCurve is extended its adaptive network mantra into the data center with its first-ever line of switching platforms designed for the data center environment.

“ProCurve is certainly no stranger to the data center environment – it has been deployed in data centers in the past,” said Matt Zanner, worldwide director of Data Center Networking for ProCurve. “This is the first attempt at getting our hands on products to optimize data center capabilities.”

The 6600 series consists of five top-of-rack server edge switches featuring the same firmware as the ProCurve 5400 and 8200 series switches to enable seamless connectivity. “These are leveraging same underlying architecture as rest of Intelligent Edge products,” Zanner said.

In addition, the switches feature front to back, reversible airflow that helps keep them cooler and reduces energy consumption.

ProCurve also is rolling out the Data Center Connection Manager, a management tool that reduces complexity at the management layer, according to the company.

“This allows for network connections to be applied in an automated and easy-to-manage fashion,” Zanner noted. “Administration teams, both server and network, will now be able to work together in a seamless fashion. It’s about furthering business operations.”

Anything we can do to make systems deployment and administration has to be a good thing, the more innovation we have in this area, the more we can centrally manage and support our systems, to reduce our operating costs and improve our ability to resolve an issue and maintain service. Do check it out.

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