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The HP POD 20c and 40c offer can be deployed within weeks instead of months or even years. The HP POD can ship with fully integrated and tested IT from an HP factory in as little as six weeks.

It comes to you as part of a complete data center solution, with services available for strategy and site planning to innovative products and comprehensive global support. For more HP POD information, go to hp.com/go/pod.

Whether it’s the HP offering or an alternative one, I’ve often thought that for me what the data center in a container is not only extra on demand capacity, but it’s also the mobility combined with capacity. It’s that as an enterprise running legacy data centers with immediate capacity and cost reductions requirements, being able to lease or buy one and deliver it to a specific location, virtualize and migrate workloads to it, freeing my teams to do the following:

• Rework the data center from a load and layout standpoint – move servers, storage and networks kit around to extend the capacity and lifespan of the existing data center
• Rework the patching in general and the patching frames so that we can better identify network routes, and at the same point reclaim cabling without causing an outage
• Decommission legacy platforms which are now running on the POD servers, un-rack and dispose, install new cabinets and start build out of rows or individual cabinets
• Verify the air flow, cooling and energy distribution to check it meets my requirements, guidelines and is as efficient as it can be
• Re-inventory and identify assets and fix broken kvm’s or even remove them to reduce power consumption and rely on lights out and crash carts as required
• Re-rack new infrastructure comprised of new servers, network and storage as appropriate
• Migrate workloads back from POD to improved data center and replicate in other locations or ship the container to other locations to do so.

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