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Alcatel-Lucent and HP Collaborate on Next Generation Carrier Cloud Offering
| Dec 7, 2011 | Data Center Technology
| Analyst: Mike Spanbauer
Event Summary
December 1, 2011 - HP and Alcatel-Lucent jointly announced a new combined carrier and enterprise data center technology offering, marketed as the “Data Center Network Connect” solution (DCNC). With Alcatel-Lucent providing interconnect and carrier integration along with HP’s new CloudSystem platform, the partnership hopes to deliver global scale solutions for the demands of public cloud and data center interconnection challenges faced by carriers and enterprises alike.
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• Current Perspective: Moderate on Alcatel-Lucent and HP’s joint offering as both possess strong market positions in their respective technology centers, in addition to the solution itself addressing an increasingly challenging need carriers and enterprises face. Deployable, cloud optimized, scalable technology with the software to automate and auto-provision based on SLA metrics or other configurable parameters - in short, making cloud technology real.
• Vendor Importance: Moderate to Alcatel-Lucent and HP as both are pursuing multiple avenues to provide carriers and enterprises with solutions that address these challenges. This partnership isn’t exclusive, nor is the solution unique with the industry challenges addressed.
• Market Impact: Moderate as the proposed solution sounds promising, but won’t be fully available to deploy and test for months yet, not to mention the very long evaluation and test cycles carriers employ today. It will be quite some time before a proven solution reference is announced at which point there will likely be references from competitive solutions as well.
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HP AND ALCATEL-LUCENT BRING TOGETHER THE POWER OF DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
Paris, France, December 1, 2011 – HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced a jointly developed solution to help organizations move, store and access vast amounts of information by integrating data center infrastructure technology and high-performance communications networks.
The new HP and Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Network Connect (DCNC) is an integrated architecture that brings together the strengths of data center technology with high-performance communications networks to offer enterprises the same levels of reliability, speed and capacity that are available on telecommunication service provider networks – now at substantially lower cost.
This offering builds upon HP and Alcatel-Lucent’s commitment to equip enterprises and service providers with the specific tools they need to deliver converged systems of IT and telecom infrastructures for greater flexibility. DCNC is the latest example of that promise, assisting enterprises in creating efficiencies within their data centers and networks for greater agility. In addition, HP is helping service providers deliver public cloud offerings to customers by also announcing HP CloudSystem integration with Alcatel-Lucent today.
“Clients are creating vast amounts of information that needs to be resourced, distributed and shared without compromising the quality of data or the speed at which it’s delivered,” said Arthur Filip, vice president and general manager, Technology Consulting, HP. “HP and Alcatel-Lucent provide clients a way to securely share extremely high volumes of data between data center sites when and where it’s needed in an instant.”
“Alcatel-Lucent and HP’s solution is based on technology engineered to satisfy telecommunications service providers that expect their networks to perform with exceptional reliability and meet their needs far into the future,” said Philippe Keryer, president, Networks Group, Alcatel-Lucent. “Large enterprises can confidently invest in these solutions knowing that they will receive the full benefit of their investment for years to come.”
Generating enterprise-wide flexibility with data center enhancements
DCNC combines HP’s breadth of technologies and services for data centers with Alcatel-Lucent’s optical transport solutions for service providers and its high-performance service routing and switching portfolio, which are key elements of the Alcatel-Lucent High Leverage Network (HLN)™ architecture.
DCNC will leverage the strength of Alcatel-Lucent’s recently announced CloudBand solution which accesses the power of the distributed network infrastructure to offer large enterprises and governments access to the cloud with the quality of service their activities require.
To address critical functions such as disaster recovery, data backup, virtual machine mobility and the creation of cloud backbones, large enterprises and service providers require an integrated solution that provides ultra-high bandwidth and low latency for connecting data centers. Emerging data center trends such as server virtualization, scale-out applications, network convergence and cloud computing have placed new demands on data center and service provider networks. As such, they require new designs and infrastructure technology that eliminate bandwidth, performance and availability limitations.
The HP and Alcatel-Lucent solution brings together key data center services and networking offerings from the portfolios of both companies. The DCNC supports immediate data center demands such as consolidation, business continuity and security, while laying the foundation for service-oriented, on-demand computing technologies.
DCNC takes advantage of high-performance service routing, switching and optical transport capabilities so clients can address the demanding requirements of the financial services, health care and media sectors, where speed and bandwidth capacity are crucial to delivering services.
HP Enterprise Services, which offers a range of data center services for HP’s outsourcing clients, used Alcatel-Lucent’s 1830 PSS (Photonic Service Switch) to create high-capacity optical links to interconnect HP’s commercial data centers. The first two projects in Germany and Switzerland were successful, and future deployments in other HP commercial data centers are planned.
Client benefits include:
• Increased network performance with faster, more reliable throughput. This results in a highly reliable networking system for e-business applications, business communications and network-based business services.
• Improved time to market through an integrated hardware, software and services solution that combines data center technologies with consulting capabilities to assist clients with implementation and support.
• Enhanced flexibility and agility within the network using an open standards-based design so clients can meet and exceed service-level agreements.
• Reduced total cost of ownership by making the network more efficient by consolidating and connecting multiple protocols and storage area networks and by enabling other resource-sharing capabilities among various locations.
• Superior reliability to support today’s 24/7 business needs.
Availability and pricing
HP and Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Network Connect consists of existing products and product-attached services from HP and Alcatel-Lucent that are available globally now. The services are currently available in select locations with expected global and consolidated availability by year end.
