Hewlett-Packard Company : Cloud Services Provider CenterBeam Selects HP to Support Customer Demand
03/19/2012| 11:57am US/Eastern
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Cloud Services Provider CenterBeam Selects HP to Support
Customer Demand
HP Converged Infrastructure, cloud-ready solutions enable
CloudAgile partner to expand offerings
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 19, 2012
HP today announced that cloud services provider CenterBeam
has selected
HP Converged Infrastructure to support the increased
capacity demands of its cloud service offerings and joined
the HP
CloudAgile Program.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based CenterBeam provides midsize
businesses with enterprise-class cloud computing services,
including hosted customer relationship management (CRM),
hosted collaboration, virtual data center services and data
storage management.
The rapid expansion of the cloud services market required
CenterBeam to replace its EMC-based infrastructure, including
EMC CLARiiON storage systems, to support significant customer
data growth.
After evaluating solutions from Dell and EMC, CenterBeam
selected
HP VirtualSystem, including HP 3PAR storage and
HP ProLiant BL460c G7 server blades, as the backbone for
its hosted platform.
Migrating to HP
3PAR F400 Storage and HP VirtualSystem solutions has
enabled CenterBeam to boost its storage throughput
tenfold.(1) CenterBeam's new infrastructure also enables its
customers to store large amounts of infrequently used data to
maintain high performance of mission-critical applications.
HP VirtualSystem provides CenterBeam a rapid path to agile
and efficient virtualized application solutions. Its balanced
architecture eliminates performance bottlenecks, while
integrated management simplifies deployment and security
across physical and virtual environments.
CenterBeam was able to reduce overall storage costs by more
than 50 percent(2) using
HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software, which
automatically moves infrequently used data from expensive
Fibre Channel and flash drives to affordable SATA drives.
In addition, CenterBeam decreased storage administration by
60 percent(2) with thin provisioning and a simplified
management interface for seamless growth of its Microsoft
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