Organizations want access to their information at a seconds notice – instant-on as HP’s Jim Ganthier puts it — and HP is determined to help them do just that.

“What I mean by instant-on is if you look at businesses and governments around the world, with trillions of sensors being put out there, five billion people trying to get on to the internet, basically everybody wants to have access to their information almost instantaneously,” said Ganthier, HP’s Vice President of Marketing for Industry Standard Servers and Software. “If you double-click below that and look at how you deliver instant-on, one of the key ways to do that is through a converged infrastructure.”

Converged infrastructure is clearly the theme at this year’s HP Discover. The idea is to deliver the next-generation data center in a single offering that combines HP’s best-of-breed storage, servers and networking gear.

“Think of CloudSystem as truly a server, storage, networking, management, power and cooling way to deliver cloud in a very cost effective, very rapid and in a truly industry differentiating way,” said Ganthier, speaking to Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier live inside theCube from the floor of HP Discover in Las Vegas.

Ganthier envisions a day when siloed architectures, with dedicated support teams focused mainly on keeping the infrastructure running, are things of the past. “Having to spend most of your time on maintenance and operations as opposed to true innovation is a really sad way to approach things,” Ganthier said.

Ganthier also took on HP’s competition in the converged architecture space. He said HP has been in the cloud business longer than most, and has hundreds of proof-points it can point to.

“Hundreds of clouds have been deployed using our CloudSystem product already,” Ganthier said. “If you look at the world’s largest social media sites, three of them powered by HP. If you look at probably eight out of the 10 biggest websites, powered by HP.”

He added: “While everybody else is talking, we’re actually delivering.”

Case-in-point: HP’s EcoPOD. EcoPOD is HP’s low cost, fast-to-deploy modular data center. It is the most energy efficient data center in the world, Ganthier said. While the average data center logs in with a PUE ratio of 2.0, EcoPOD boasts a PUE of just 1.05.

“Being a professional malcontent, the team’s working on how to get rid of that [.05] too,” Ganthier said.

In order to continue delivering, he said HP will incorporate its acquired technologies into its portfolio, but also continue innovating from within.

“Organically, innovation is alive and well at HP,” Ganthier said.