Entering into the next major phase of their strategy to build "modular, integrated, automated data centers," HP has announced new virtualization
and power management technologies.
The new offerings provide customers with the tools they need to streamline their IT operations to achieve cost savings, increased flexibility and improved energy efficiency.
HP's strategy includes an ultimate goal of building data centers that reduce administrative time and free resources to focus on the needs of the business.
The new offerings are based on the HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure, a self-contained unit of servers, storage, network, management software and power and cooling technology.
A key new offering, the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, makes it possible for IT administrators to manage and control Virtual Control-based connections across all blade enclosures in a data center. The offering also saves administrator time and helps to meet changing application workload and performance needs.
The company also announced new and enhanced offerings based on HP Insight Control including:
-- HP Server Migration Pack Universal Edition now combines virtual and physical migrations into a single tool to speed migration time of HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. A new "queued migration feature" helps to automate, plan and execute multiple migrations at once, with expected support to include Citrix XenServer(TM), Microsoft(R) virtual machines, Oracle (News - Alert)(R) VM and VMware.
-- HP Virtual Machine Management Pack 3.0, another key offering within the Insight Control management portfolio, provides central management of Citrix XenServer, Microsoft (News - Alert) virtual machines, Oracle VM and VMware. It helps reduce downtime interruptions with a new predictive failure alert capacity that can relocate virtual machines before hardware failures occur.
-- HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server consolidates large SQL environments onto a single cluster so customers can manage all instances at once, freely add and recover multiple instances, and roll out business applications more quickly while improving reliability.
And, to provide IT and facilities with even more energy-aware access, HP has announced two new offerings: the HP Power Distribution Rack, offering more power when and where its needed and with the most cost savings and environmental benefits, and the HP Rackmountable Parallel 3 Phase UPS, offering a high level of power protection and dissipating less heat into a data center.
"Infrastructure issues of cost, time, change and energy continue to challenge our customers, even as great technologies like virtualization help lower costs and speed the pace of making changes," said Mark Linesch, vice president of marketing, Infrastructure Software, HP in a statement to the press. "With these offerings, our recently acquired assets from Opsware (News - Alert) and more products on the horizon, HP continues to drive toward an Adaptive Infrastructure inclusive of both physical and virtual resources."
Be sure to also check out these HP Whitepapers from TMCnet's Whitepaper Library:
--Accelerating 3G mobile video communications
--Interactive Voice Response consolidation (IVR) strategies featuring the HP OpenCall Media Platform
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