HP Powers Next-Gen Computing with HP ZCentral
November 18 2019 - 9:00AM
Today at Autodesk University, HP Inc. announced HP ZCentral, a
solution powering the next-gen of computing with the world’s first
single sourced remote workstation solution. ZCentral centralizes
high-end computer power in a single location, liberating
power-users who work on graphics-intensive applications, and
enabling remote, mobile and fluid workstyles. ZCentral combines Z
by HP racked high performance workstations, a new generation
ZCentral Remote Boost software – formerly known as Remote Graphics
Software (RGS) – and new proprietary ZCentral Connect software to
accelerate high compute workflows to the next level.
“As the office of the future continues to evolve, HP is
equipping today’s mobile workforce with the world’s only
single-source remote workstation solution, accelerating
high-performance, complex workflows from any location,” said Jim
Nottingham, general manager and global head of workstations, HP
Inc. “HP ZCentral is reinventing the way businesses meet the
demands of today’s global workforce with flexibility by
accelerating IT deployment and management, reducing costs, and
providing world-class data security.”
ZCentral equips IT departments with predictable and dedicated
remote performance, independent of the end point device, and a
simple way to manage those connections with ultimate data security.
The financial impacts of a data breach can be significant to a
company with the average cost of $3.6 million in 20181. ZCentral
can reduce the challenges and costs associated with managing
various platforms and devices while offering secure remote access
to users. ZCentral offers 16%-33% higher performance, at 59%-72% of
the cost of today’s virtualized workstations2. With ZCentral, IT
managers can manage, monitor, and assign dedicated remote
workstation performance on a secure private network with one
console.
HP will deliver the full end-to-end ZCentral solutions to
partners across various industries, including AEC, Data Science,
Media and Entertainment, and Oil and Gas, among others. The updated
ZCentral Remote Boost and new ZCentral Connect software will be
available in early 2020, with beta versions available for current
customers.
Fluid IT Transforms Workflows for Power Users
In today’s remote office environments, creators, animators,
researchers and product developers, among other professionals, are
working in various locations more frequently to increase
collaboration, creativity, productivity and efficiency. However,
power users accessing large files for these complex workflows,
while syncing over the network, is costly and time-intensive. HP is
innovating in two key areas to deliver enterprise-ready remote
computing solutions in the right way: predictable and dedicated
remote workstation performance independent of the OS (MacOS,
Windows, Linux) and the shift to ultra-flexible IT.
ZCentral delivers dedicated performance via a secure and stable
remote workstation connection, with the new ZCentral Remote Boost
software delivering high-performance on VFX, simulation and 3D,
bringing a new way to manage those connections collectively.
ZCentral Remote Boost works with Windows, Linux or MacOS devices,
providing flexibility for the end-user to create or design on
almost any end-point device, anywhere.
The ZCentral Connect software enables company IT departments to
easily assign workstations, monitor connections and logins all
through one simple interface. ZCentral Connect also makes is simple
and easy for power users to connect to dedicated, centralized
compute or access the next available workstation within an assigned
pool of centralized workstations. By keeping the workstation secure
and centralized next to the data storage, with the ZCentral Connect
and ZCentral Remote Boost connection, only encrypted pixels are
sent over the network, so company data remains highly secure at the
source.
With the world’s most secure workstations, packed with
professional graphics highly tuned to deliver ultimate performance
with complex, multi-application workflows, ZCentral is innovating
how compute power is managed. ZCentral delivers:
- Efficiency gains with fast load times for large projects in
remote locations (co-located data and compute for security and
faster load times), protecting company data on the world's most
secure workstations – racked Z by HP workstations.
- IT departments can share a pool of workstations to each user in
a new flexible way by managing connections remotely on one simple
interface with ZCentral Connect Software
- Power users can tap into Z Workstation performance and work as
if they are local even with a thin and light device via ZCentral
Remote Boost Software
- IT departments can equip workforces with a variety of end-point
devices from Thin Clients to Notebooks and Convertibles and
regardless of the device, power users can upgrade to dedicated
workstation performance for the ISV applications they use, when
they need them.
ZCentral Availability
- Z by HP Desktop workstations with rack mounting are available
today.
- HP ZCentral Remote Boost software will be available in early
2020, pricing to be announced at a later date and the beta for
current customers is available now. For more information or to
contact HP, please visit hp.com/ZCentral.
- HP ZCentral Connect software will be available in early 2020,
pricing to be announced at a later date and the beta for current
customers is available now. For more information or to contact HP,
please visit hp.com/ZCentral.
- HP RGS is available today, visit hp.com/ZCentralRemoteBoost for
more information.
About HP
HP Inc. creates technology that makes life better for everyone,
everywhere. Through our product and service portfolio of personal
systems, printers and 3D printing solutions, we engineer
experiences that amaze. More information about HP Inc. is available
at http://www.hp.com.
Conor Driscoll, Z by HP
conor.driscoll@hp.comwww.hp.com/go/newsroom |
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____________________________________1 13th annual 2018 Cost of a
Data Breach Study: Global Overview from IBM Security and Ponemon
Institute.
2 Based on hp.com store and dell.com store pricing dated
September 2019, and performance based on core count of a
racked-mounted HP Z4 G4, 6 core workstation confiiguration with 3
year warrant support, compared with two configurations of Dell
PowerEdge R740 Rack Server configured with VMware Horizon Advanced
10 pack CCu license and 3 year suppport, Quadro Virtual Data Center
Workstation hardware and licenses, and 3 year support. One
configuration of the server uses 36 cores to be shared among 9
concurrent users, the other uses 56 cores to be shared among the
same 9 users to ensure that each of the 9 users avail of 6 cores
simultaneously, to more closely approximate the maximum CPU core
availability of 9 racked Z4 workstations. Note that the processors
on the Dell servers have a lower base frequency in both
cases.
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