HP, a major technology company, has introduced new Converged Infrastructure solutions in networking, security and scalable computing that the company claims significantly enhances the delivery of application services to business.

Officials with HP said that the company is improving the quality of application service in branch offices with a turnkey, all-in-one connectivity solution that eliminates the need for local IT resources.

Company officials said that a new HP TippingPoint security service increases network integrity by providing granular control of application access, with the ability to block access to entire websites -- or features -- across the enterprise.

For service providers, the new, specialized HP ProLiant SL6500 Scalable System provides a single, high-performance scalable platform for application hosting, web serving, cloud computing or outsourcing a variety of applications. Innovations in building and delivering the HP Performance Optimized Datacenter (POD), a modular, container-based IT environment, enable service providers to rapidly expand an entire data center for application access in as little as six weeks

Company officials said that the new solutions are based on HP Converged Infrastructure, which provides clients with integrated servers, storage, networking and software.

According to company officials, Converged Infrastructure is an ideal foundation for application service delivery because it offers an open, common architecture that is highly optimized and managed in a unified way. This allows clients to automatically tune their infrastructure to meet the specific requirements of their environments.

"Enterprises are realizing that applications are only as good as the infrastructure that powers them," said Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager, enterprise servers, storage and networking HP, in a statement.

Donatelli said that HP Converged Infrastructure delivers significant advantages in deployment speed, performance, reliability and management of applications that provide organizations quantifiable results over traditional environments.

Company officials said that the new HP Branch Office Networking Solution is a turnkey hardware, software, application and connectivity offering improving service delivery to remote locations.

Through an open architecture, the solution integrates leading technology and consolidates branch office equipment, eliminating the need for local IT resources.