Customer quotes: HP Virtual Connect Flex 10

Continental Airlines
"Virtual Connect Flex-10 is an essential component of a dynamic data center initiative. Through its rich administrative tool set, ability to virtualize the connections between servers, storage, and network it has never been easier to build a highly automated, dynamic environment. Moving server workloads or provisioning new services no longer takes a small army of specialized administrators. On top of this great functionality, Virtual Connect reduces cabling, NIC, and storage infrastructure costs. Virtual Connect will be a long running part of our reference architecture for data center services."

- Eric Craig, Managing Director.

Dallas Cowboys
"Because our business environment is so demanding the requirements on IT are intense. We need to be able to make changes to our server environment to add new services and applications rapidly and predictably, in essence turning on a dime. This is no longer the exception, but the rule. With advanced technologies like HP Virtual Connect, we can get things done quickly. The connections between the servers and the LAN and SAN are virtualized, so we no longer need to involve a whole team of people to make simple changes to the environment, and we save a lot of money by reducing cables 4:1. Changes that used to take hours or even days, due to the need to coordinate, can now be executed in minutes. The bottom line is that we can move quickly to get the job done, and drive the business forward."

- Bill Haggard, Director of Enterprise Infrastructure.

Gradwell
"HP Virtual Connect with Flex-10 technology added to the HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure also means faster time to value as well as more capacity for the money. The team can roll out LAN and SAN profiles to blade slots in advance, which makes deploying, or changing a server or setting up a VLAN much faster and more consistent."

- Peter Gradwell, Founder and Managing Director.

Abu Dhabi Education Council
"Using HP Virtual Connect with Flex-10 has allowed us to fine tune our bandwidth priorities to our mission critical applications whenever the network traffic demands it."

- Kaled Hassan, Senior Systems Engineer.

Animal Logic
"By leveraging HP Virtual Connect and some of the stacking options that come with HP server blades, we are able to have redundancy. With three BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures in a rack, we could lose the 10 Gigabit connections to one without losing the other two. HP Virtual Connect has made this kind of redundancy very cost effective."

- Alex Timbs, Head of Information Technology.

Turkcell Communication Services
"Virtual Connect has simplified Turkcell's connections and operations for both Ethernet and Fibre Channel. We can establish the LAN and SAN connections all at once, even before we install the servers. Our network and storage teams can then focus on their networks without worrying that a server change might disrupt their work. Virtual Connect means that Turkcell will need a lot less equipment for connecting to both our LANs and SANs."

- Adem Mecit, Senior Infrastructure Architect, Turkcell Communication Services.