HP Broadens Moonshot Portfolio to New Applications for Increased Efficiency and Lower Cost

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 23, 2014) - HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced new HP ProLiant Moonshot solutions, further expanding the portfolio of customized end-to-end compute solutions designed to enable business innovation while lowering datacenter costs. The announcement includes new HP Moonshot solutions for:

• Application delivery with Citrix XenApp
• Video transcoding with Harmonic Inc. and Vantrix
• Web infrastructure in-a-box
• Managed web hosting
  
  

"A transformative approach to computing is required to enable breakthrough capabilities not possible using traditional servers and move the needle on workload optimization," said Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager, Moonshot, HP. "The unique architecture of HP Moonshot delivers extreme density and power efficiency. Customers can expand their offerings and prepare for the future, while significantly reducing the complexity of their infrastructure."

HP Moonshot is capturing the attention of innovative global companies like 20th Century Fox, which is using the system to migrate web workloads from the public cloud and for transferring large digital movie and television files, trailers and digital marketing content. 

"For a global media company, innovation is key and HP Moonshot has been a great tool in our arsenal," said John Herbert, chief information officer and executive vice president, 20th Century Fox. "With HP, we've been able to repatriate digital marketing websites from the public cloud, as well as expedite our extreme file transfer capabilities, all at unparalleled economics while at the same time being kind to the planet."

Enhancing application delivery
In combination with Citrix XenApp, HP is introducing a new HP Moonshot solution for application delivery. The solution enables organizations to:

• Increase productivity from any place, at any time, by simplifying the delivery of business applications to employees, regardless of their device.
  
  
• Reduce the cost and complexity of managing applications in the data center by consolidating application delivery into a single architecture.
  
  
• Achieve lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with fewer components to manage, less floor space, and reduced power consumption.
  
  

The HP Moonshot solution for application delivery is based on the new HP Moonshot ProLiant m710 server, which features the customized Intel® Xeon® E3-1284L v3 processor with built-in Intel® Iris Pro Graphics P5200. With the integrated Graphics Processor Unit (GPU), HP Moonshot eliminates the need for discrete graphics processor cards and allows customers to host any application in the datacenter and deliver it as a service to end users, from Microsoft Office applications to sophisticated multi-media healthcare applications.