Composable infrastructure explained: HP’s Project Synergy | #HPDiscover #HPEDiscover by Amber Johnson | Jun 8, 2015 Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Paul Durzan, VP of Product Marketing and Converged Data Center Infrastructure, recently divulged the benefits of composable infrastructure within the newly announced Project Synergy while talking with theCUBE’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante during HP Discover 2015. “Everything is about software. The future is moving towards software,” Durzan stated. Durzan described two different worlds in the data center: the DevOps world where things are constantly moving and changing and the traditional environment where you don’t always want change to happen. He explained that what HP is doing with composable infrastructure is bridging the two, traditional by making it more efficient and the newer “stuff,” which creates a “investment protection” so that traditional companies can move to the new style of business. The advantage of composable infrastructure The advantage of composable infrastructure is that it can be optimized for the application right before run time, according to Durzan. When Vellante inquired about the implications of this software in Coud-building, Durzan replied, “Our goal is to … make creation of the underlying infrastructure for that Cloud as easy as possible. By creating fluid pools of resources, defining those pools of resources through intelligence and having a unified API, composable infrastructure offers previously unseen flexibility. The customer can create an “infrastructure personality” that can be superimposed on the application, thereby tailoring the software to the customer needs. “The channel loves this, as it gives them choice,” Vellante summarized. Durzan added that the goal of composable is to create that optimization in software that works with the existing pools of resources, a process that streamlines productivity for the customer. “We want to make the management easy and create the reliability,” he said. “This is next step of the converged data center.” Phase One of Project Synergy is currently available from HP. @theCUBE #HPDiscover