HP revamps Data Center Network by launching SDN Fabric for Cloud

HP today unveiled a data center network fabric built on HP FlexNetwork architecture, enabling business agility for clients by delivering two times greater scalability and 75-per cent less complexity over current network fabrics while reducing network provisioning time from months to minutes.

The new offerings include the new HP FlexFabric 12900, which is an OpenFlow-enabled core switch capable of scaling to meet the demands of increasing virtualized workloads. 

For the past 20 years, data center networks have lagged in supporting new enterprise demands for cloud, virtualization and big data. Only HP is positioned to deliver the industry’s most complete software-defined data center network fabric with innovations that enable our customers to create a network foundation that will meet their needs today and well into the future, said Prakash Krishnamoorthy, Country Manager, HP Networking, HP India. 

By simplifying network design and operations, new HP Networking solutions enable customers to improve IT productivity by unifying the virtual and physical fabric with new HP FlexFabric Virtual Switch 5900v software, which, in conjunction with the HP FlexFabric 5900 physical switch, delivers advanced networking functionalities such as policies and quality of service to a VMware environment. Integrated Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) technology provides clear separation between server and network administrations to deliver operational simplicity.

HP FlexFabric Virtual Switch 5900v is expected to be available worldwide in October 2013. Pricing will be available at that time. HP FlexFabric 5900 switch series is available now for a starting pricing of US$14,990.