Performance, innovation and mobility: HP Inc reinvents the professional workstation business

The multinational has shown during the event held in New York its clear commitment to innovation in workstations for the professional environment, with the presentation, among other news, the ZBool Studio, the world's first quad-core Ultrabook workstation to revolutionize mobile systems, becoming the thinnest model, light and with the highest performance in the company's portfolio.

In his first international event as HP Inc, held in New York, The company has not only reinvented its workstation portfolio with the presentation of the third generation of equipment, but has shown its clear commitment to this business segment aimed at a professional audience (more information about the company's division in Digital AV Magazine).

This is what Jeff Wood has pointed out, product director of workstations and thin clients at HP Inc, in an exclusive meeting with the main international media in the sector, to which he has gone Panorama Audiovisual, ensuring that the “company consolidates itself as the number one brand in commercial PCs, laser and inkjet printers, although it maintains the second position in the home PC market.

The commitment of this new HP, This manager has assured, will be “to be very close to the entrepreneur with creativity and speed and to large corporations with scalability and muscle.”. Our company, after the division, It's even bigger than Intel.".

Wood has also highlighted that the brand's leadership moment is accompanied by the important alliances it maintains with leading companies in the market., like intel, The English Court, Microsoft and FNAC.

For your part, Jim Zaffarana, in charge of the Workstations area, Thin Clients y Commercial Immersive Computing en HP, has stressed that “HP Z workstation customers continually reinvent everything. This forces us to continually update the technology behind these powerful systems.”.

Zafarana has reviewed the company's latest milestones in this regard, like the technical Oscar that the US Film Academy. awarded last February to its Dreamcolor monitor, a solution designed to achieve the greatest color reliability with 4K resolutions, or the launch last September of the new Z240.

“Our clients need a workstation wherever they want them to be and their performance is not compromised,” he stated.. Work is carried out under intense pressure, That is why performance should not be compromised to the place in which the equipment is used... 'work is performance'.

About these technological axes of performance, innovation and reliability, The company has presented a new category of workstations in New York: Zbook Studio Mobile Workstation, composed of teams that reinvent the use of these devices for mobile professionals.

ZBook Studio

The company has developed the world's first quad-core Ultrabook workstation with ZBook Studio. With a 15.6” screen (39,6 cm), is a high-performance piece of equipment meticulously designed to meet the needs of professionals on the go., with which HP “revolutionizes the language of mobile workstation design”, As it is the thinnest and lightest model with the highest performance in its portfolio.

ZBook Studio has surpassed 120.000 hours of testing and has numerous advances in workstations never seen before: Intel Xeon CPUs with ECC memory, Thunderbolt 3, Second generation Z Turbo Drives, HP Sure Start security and an eight million pixel 4K DreamColor display.

With just 2 kilos of weight and 18 mm thickness, ZBook Studio can be configured to suit business needs and meet demanding professional memory needs, processor, graphics and more.

Model capabilities include Intel Core or Xeon processors, dual drive 1 TB HP Z Turbo Drive G2 (to reach up 2 TB total storage); until 32 GB of memory ETC, dual Thunderbolt 3; dual cooling fans and optional HP DreamColor UHD or FHD touch displays. Your computer is designed to handle large graphics files, with the possibility of choosing between the new Nvidia Quadro M1000M 2 GB GDDR5 Professional or Intel HD graphics 530.

ZBool 15u Mobile Workstation

The company has also presented three new mobile workstation models, like the new ZBook 15u, that provides the performance of a high-end device at a reduced cost and in a compact format. With its 15.6” screen (39,6 cm) in diagonal, This Ultrabook workstation can be configured with up to 32 GB of memory, AMD FirePro professional graphics with 2GB frame buffer, HP Z Turbo Drive G2, 1.5 TB of total storage and an FHD touch screen.

In 15,6 inches (39,6cm) diagonally is the HP ZBook model 15, a mobile workstation that has been redesigned both inside and out, being a 27% finer and a 7% lighter, as well as a 27% Longer battery life over previous generations. Equip an Intel Core or Xeon processor, memory 64 GB ETC, up to two 1TB second-generation Z Turbo Drives, with a total storage of 3 TB; dual Thunderbolt 3 and optional HP DreamColor UHD or FHD touch displays.

The 'big sister' in terms of screen is HP ZBook 17. With an increase of 67% in battery life, this 17.3” workstation (43,9 cm) is also a 25% finer and a 11% lighter than its predecessor.

This device can be configured with an Intel Core or Xeon processor., until 64 GB of memory ETC, up to two 1TB second-generation Z Turbo Drives (for up to 4 TB total storage), dual Thunderbolt 3 and optional HP DreamColor UHD or FHD touch displays. It also has support for NVidia Quadro graphics up to M5000M with 8GB frame buffer.

HP ZBook Studio, ZBook 15 y 17 They have the new Nvidia Quadro Professional graphics, providing almost twice the performance of the previous generation of graphics. Those systems also offer an option of Intel Iris Pro Graphics P580, Intel HD graphics P530 o 530, so that professionals select the most convenient one for their needs.

HP ZBooks ship with HP Remote Graphics Software preloaded for remote collaboration; HP Performance Advisor to deliver optimal performance, and HP Velocity for faster, more reliable network performance.

This remote collaboration software allows you to share the screen with multiple users, use new collaborative controls or access remotely, in complete safety, from anywhere, Ya know about Windows or Linux.

Regarding connectivity, HP technology developed for this new range of workstations considerably improves the 3G/4G connection, WiFi, and home or business networks.

Along with the HP ZBook Workstations, the new HP ZBook Dock with Thunderbolt also arrives 3, with which users will be able to connect up to ten devices at the same time through ports that include Thunderbolt 3 (supporting DisplayPort 1.2, USB 3.1 Gen 2 and PCIe), four USB 3.0, RJ-45, VGA, audio combo and two additional DisplayPorts.

Josh Peterson, director of product management at HP Workstations, has emphasized that these new proposals from the company are “extremely silent”, since they have noise attenuation software (more data in Digital AV Magazine). Besides, They have a balanced audio amplifier for external speakers and an integrated speaker from Bang&Olufsen.

Mprofessional Z monitors

HP Z22n and Z23n Narrow Bezel IPS Monitors provide exceptional viewing with minimal visual clutter. The panels, the company's narrowest yet with three monitors, are virtually borderless on three sides and include factory color calibration for consistent color between projections and screens. T

Professionals will benefit from the views offered by the 178º IPS technology viewing angle of these monitors, with optimal color quality (offers a range calibrated to 95% y 96% sRGB, respectively), to which is added its great flexibility when connecting devices.

HP in space

Stephen Hunter, director of computing resources at the International Space Station, has shared his experiences during this event with the use of HP solutions in space, such as the use of COTS solutions (Commercial Off the Shelf) subjected to very special conditions (high radiation or continuous temperature changes) that occur throughout the 90 minutes that each orbit to the Earth lasts.

NASA has used since 2014 the HP 8570w laptop as a coherent optical tomography system and crew health status monitoring. They also currently use ZBook 15 second generation, after carrying out intensive tests with this portable workstation, providing HP with very valuable information about the response of these machines in extreme vibration conditions, temperature, humidity, dust, falls…

In this sense, Paul Mazurkiewicz, PhD senior scientist for Workstations and Thin Clients of the multinational, has stressed that the new generation of products has endured more than 95.000 hours of testing.

Storage and performance

Another announcement made in New York was a storage solution sixteen times faster than a SATA SSD at a similar cost, as well as a heat transfer to reduce system noise in powerful Z workstations.

HP Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro technology offers users better performance and reliability to gain speed during large data storage, so that typical bottlenecks are resolved in those environments where storage is a challenge and speed is a fundamental factor.

Z Series Workstations can be equipped with up to four super-fast HP Z Turbo Drive G2 modules on one x16 PCle card.. This solution offers sequential performance of up to 9.0GB/s. Besides, HP Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro improves data protection in the event of a power outage.

This solution is compatible with HP Z440 workstations, Z640 y Z840, designed for very demanding industries, in terms of power and performance, such as media and entertainment.