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HP Updates Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI)

Saturday, 16 June 2007 by Michel Roth

HP has been busy developing a set of software and hardware to enable a centralized Desktop offering. One of these technologies is known as the Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI). In a nutshell, it's about having a Blade PC in your data center and a HP Thin Client at your desk(top). The communication between the two is done using either HPs Remote Graphics Software 5.0 (which allows for extreme graphics capabilities) or just plain old Microsoft RDP 6.0.

The upgrade introduced the new HP BladeSystem bc2000 and bc2500 blade PCs and HP Remote Graphics software to provide greater processing power and performance, improved graphics and streaming video to users with network connectivity and an HP thin client or other access device. HP also introduced PC Session Allocation Manager 2.0, which includes PC �hot desk� access that allows users to securely and easily change work locations.

HP blade PCs are designed to simplify PC provisioning and updates while leveraging standard data center management tools and operational procedures. The new HP blade PCs maximize data center floor space while minimizing power consumption by providing desktop performance with the highest rack density (280 blades in an industry-standard 42U rack) at the industry�s lowest power rate of any blade PC (as low as approximately 7 kilowatts per 280 blades).

CCI is part of HP�s portfolio of Remote Client Solutions, which includes traditional HP thin client/server-based computing, HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure running on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, and HP Blade Workstations.

The HP BladeSystem bc2000 Blade PC starts at $1,000 per bc2000 blade (when purchased in a 10 pack) featuring a single-core AMD Athlon� 64 2100+ processor, 80 gigabyte (GB) SATA hard drive and 1 GB of DDR2 memory.

The HP BladeSystem bc2500 high-performance blade PC starts at $1,500 when purchased in a 10 pack featuring an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3000+ dual-core processor, 80 GB SATA hard drive and 1 GB DDR 2 memory.

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