Tasked with enabling web-centric, information-intensive business models, Enterprises are taking bold steps to turn away from inflexible legacy architectures and embrace new, innovative approaches to building data center networks to ensure they are ready for the challenge of a highly-virtualized, dynamic workload.

By providing networking solutions that improve efficiencies and reduce cost and complexity, HP gives customers the tools to deliver networking that and drives business enablement, accelerates top-line business value, and makes the most of a virtualization-enabled workload environment.

HP FlexFabric - the Network for a Converged Infrastructure

With HP FlexFabric as the blueprint for a data center interconnect built to deliver predictable performance, high availability, and security, HP networking data center solutions are built on products and technologies that offer scalability, cutting-edge features, energy efficiency, and reduced complexity.

HP offers networking that is tightly integrated with a server, storage, and management-integrated Converged Infrastructure. With the backing of a comprehensive enterprise service and support portfolio and the global reach of the world's largest IT company, this offering lets customers deploy new applications and services more quickly with best-in-class TCO.

Solution Building Blocks

With an evolutionary approach to deploying a network infrastructure to enable today's highly-virtualized application environments, businesses can deploy FlexFabric networks today – employing current technologies and tools from HP Networking and HP BladeSystem Virtual Connect portfolios.

HP Networking brings a flexible, open standards-based set of provisioning automation and network infrastructure tools to put businesses on a firm path to a fully-virtualized, highly-scalable, cost effective FlexFabric solution.

» FlexFabric Evolve your network to an agile, cost-effective, high-performance architecture that delivers virtualization-aware connectivity to the data center.
» Switching & Routing A comprehensive portfolio that provides secure, high performance connectivity with reduced complexity.
» Network Management A consolidated, scalable framework that provides a unified resource management platform for deploying, managing, and monitoring a mission-critical data center network.
» Provisioning Automation Innovative data center resource management tools that enable automated, secure, virtualization-aligned server connectivity provisioning.
» Security High performance networking security solutions for the data center that provide powerful, real-time protection, ensure continuity, improve network control, and lower total cost of ownership.
» iSCSI Networking A robust and cost effective network infrastructure ideally suited for deploying a flexible, easy-to-manage storage.