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HP announced a set of products and services designed to help
customers transform their data centers from a standalone collection
of physical assets into a virtual and adaptive infrastructure
designed to rapidly meet changing business needs.
New research conducted on behalf of HP shows
that more than one-third of chief information officers believe that
in two to five years their data centers will be unable to meet the
rapidly growing demand for business services and applications.
To meet this demand, HP is providing businesses
with the technology tools and strategies needed to address top data
center initiatives: energy efficiency, automation, virtualization,
consolidation and business continuity.
Coupled with HP's current systems, storage,
software and services, the new products and services make up the HP
Data Center Transformation portfolio, which enables enterprises to
manage and transform their data centers.
"An emergent mobile workforce, the need for
real-time access to information, and the explosion of data are the
multiple challenges customers face today," said David Tan,
General Manager, Technology Solutions Group and Managing Director,
HP Philippines. "HP is exceptionally capable in helping CIOs
considerably change the way they manage, operate and create their
data centers."
HP infrastructure additions include new
services, plus a powerful HP ProLiant server:
HP Critical Facilities Services – As a
result of the February 2008 acquisition of EYP Mission Critical
Facilities, HP is expanding its Data Center Services offering with
three new critical facilities services focused on consulting, design
and assurance. The services help customers create scalable
facilities that reduce the cost of data center operations through
energy efficient power and cooling technologies contained in
space-efficient facilities.
HP Data Center Consolidation Services –
New data center consolidation services include design, transition
and support services to help customers reduce the sheer number of
their facilities. As a result, customers reduce energy and operating
costs, while maintaining the ability to support business growth with
a robust, flexible infrastructure.
HP Data Center Virtualization Services –
HP's virtualization services portfolio has been enhanced with new
design, support and education services that help customers create a
virtual infrastructure from their physical technology assets. This
includes virtualization across servers, storage, networks and
applications.
HP ProLiant DL785 G5 Server – The HP
ProLiant DL785 G5 is a powerful and scalable eight-socket x86 server
based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor technology. The server is
an ideal platform for virtualization due to its processing power,
large memory footprint, storage capacity and expandable
input/output. The DL785 improves server utilization by consolidating
multiple servers and reduces the management, energy and space issues
associated with server sprawl.
New software provides single view of the
physical and virtual world plus enhanced automation:
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE – This is the
industry's first software to analyze and optimize physical and
virtual resources in the same way. The new software helps customers
extend the life of their data centers with advanced energy-aware
capacity planning.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE will support
multi-vendor hypervisor technologies and reduces costs of common
data center tasks by as much as 40 percent. Previewed today
and available in the second calendar quarter of 2008, HP Insight
Dynamics - VSE seamlessly plugs into HP Systems Insight Manager, the
world's most popular platform management tool.
HP Operations Orchestration Enhancements –
Integrations announced today extend comprehensive automation across
all physical and virtual infrastructures. By automating manual and
error prone processes across clients, applications, servers,
networks, and storage, these new integrations help customers better
manage and automate business services. Additionally, it helps
customers reduce labor cost, increase service availability and meet
compliance requirements by providing auditable, standardized
processes.
-- Tech Times Online
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