HP announced the HP Adaptive Infrastructure in a Box for Midsize Businesses, which enables businesses with 100 to 999 employees to lower technology costs, increase operational efficiency and reduce unplanned downtime.

The HP Adaptive Infrastructure in a Box for Midsize Businesses is a suite of products and services encompassing servers, storage, management, automation, power and cooling technologies, virtualisation, and security.

Adaptive Infrastructure in a Box for Midsize Businesses is:

• Simple: Minimises the burden on IT administrators. The solution eliminates the need for specialised skills through automated infrastructure deployment and easy administration.

• Affordable: Reduces the total cost of a technology infrastructure by as much as 31 percent over a conventional infrastructure by lowering acquisition and administration costs. The solution also provides highly efficient use of technology assets, staff and energy resources.

• Reliable: Reduces unplanned downtime with optimised backup and recovery, improved security for server environment, system management and network access as well as enhanced data encryption.

• Versatile: Provides flexibility to change as needs evolve with the industry's broadest set of components customised to midsize needs.

• Designed with environment in mind: Reduces required resources by eliminating multiple physical assets and delivering an energy-efficient design.