HP BladeSystem Matrix is the industry’s first converged infrastructure platform delivering the benefits of shared services today. With its application-centric design it provides the ideal backbone of a private cloud environment. It provisions complex infrastructure and applications in minutes instead of months, reduces total cost of ownership up to 56% versus traditional infrastructure and reduces application provisioning time by 80%.

HP BladeSystem Matrix is designed to simplify the deployment of applications and business services by delivering IT capacity through pools of readily deployed resources. The goal of Matrix operating environment is to accelerate provisioning, optimize IT capacity across physical and virtual environments and to ensure predictable delivery and service levels. It includes an integrated service designer, self-service portal, auto-provisioning capabilities, and the tools to manage and optimize the resources pools as well as a recovery management solution. Through Cloud APIs it can be easily customized to meet specific requirements enabling chargeback and billing, approval process integration, as well as other process automation capabilities.

BladeSystem Matrix includes proven HP BladeSystem technologies such as Virtual Connect and standard ProLiant and Integrity blade servers for streamlined implementation and support and builds on shared storage SAN such as Fiber Channel SAN. There are a number of benefits of HP BladeSystem Matrix. The integrated solution is easier to implement than the individual components. It accelerates delivery of services to your business with template-based provisioning and automation and helps to continuously optimize the use of resources with tools for capacity planning and power management, giving you deep insight into the resource and power utilization of your data resources.