IT major HP on Wednesday announced the launch of its utility data centre (UDC) in Bangalore, the first such facility for the company outside Europe and the United States.
The UDC, which has products including servers, storage, network and software, aims to provide organisations to consolidate resources and agility to improve services.
"The biggest advantage of UDC is that it enables customers to have high capacity utilisation of their IT assets, which is fundamental to bringing down the cost of usage. Capacity utilisation can be as high as 90 to 95 per cent as compared to about 20 per cent in traditional data centres, which means that cost of computing comes down on a per unit basis," Pallab Talukdar, HP India business critical systems and enterprise marketing and solutions director, told reporters in Bangalore.
He said HP has made an incremental investment of $200,000 in the UDC, which was already an existing data centre.
"Enterprises will begin to see return on investment as early as six to nine months after deployment of the adaptive solution," Talukdar said.
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