Systems/Enterprise:
HP & CISCO SYSTEMS JOIN FOR GRID
UTILITY COMPUTING SOLUTION
HP expanded its collaboration with Cisco Systems on the HP Utility Data
Center (HP UDC) to provide enterprise and service provider customers with an
HP UDC solution optimized for Cisco networking components.
Specifically, HP and Cisco have agreed to joint engineering development
activities and interoperability testing to integrate Cisco components into the
HP UDC architecture, helping to ensure feature and benefits optimization for
customers. Included in the UDC architecture, interoperating with HP Utility
Controller software, are Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches, PIX 515 Series
firewalls and 2950 routers.
Through their joint efforts, HP and Cisco also will enable new products and
features to be incorporated into the HP UDC in an accelerated, tightly
integrated fashion.
Expansion of Cisco's support for the HP UDC is the latest in a series of
successes in support of HP's adaptive infrastructure initiative, which allows
customers to quickly and efficiently adapt their IT infrastructures to
changing conditions in the market and customer demand.
The combined strength of the market-leading HP UDC and Cisco Systems'
leading networking platforms enables customers to quickly and efficiently
optimize their IT infrastructures. The two companies also will collaborate on
research and development, joint marketing, sales and cooperative support of
the HP UDC.
"We are pleased to partner with HP in bringing a virtualized data center to
market that is enhanced specifically to run our components," said Eugene Lee,
vice president, Worldwide Enterprise Marketing, Cisco. "The combination of our
networking solutions and HP's UDC will be a powerful and compelling offering
to our mutual customers."
HP is the only vendor with true utility computing solutions on the market
today. With the HP UDC, enterprises can double their data center efficiency
(for example, to 60 percent from 30 percent); realize a reduction in total
cost of ownership by accessing capacity as they need it, when they need it;
and move entire systems into applications and drag-and-drop resources on the
fly. Moreover, all system changes are done outside of the computer room; not a
single wire or server is touched.
"Today's news demonstrates that HP has the better utility computing partner
value proposition over any competitor," said Nick van der Zweep, director of
Utility Computing, HP Enterprise Systems Group. "Our milestones serve as proof
of the success of our utility computing and adaptive infrastructure strategy
to provide customers with an agile IT infrastructure that is right for their
businesses and that delivers true return on IT investment."
Additionally, HP has sold more than 145,000 licenses of key technologies
enabling customers to more effectively run and adapt their infrastructures
according to their particular business requirements.
This includes more than 10,000 on-demand server licenses delivering true
usage-based utility computing. The extended virtualization capabilities of HP
Workload Manager software have improved the integration of clustering,
partitioning, workload management and pay-as-you-go offerings, allowing
customers to utilize utility computing capabilities. HP customers have already
purchased more than 70,000 licenses for HP Serviceguard clustering and more
than 65,000 licenses for HP workload management software.
HP also announced further milestones and successes for its utility
computing and adaptive infrastructure initiatives:
- More than 90 percent of HP Superdome servers ship with HP Serviceguard and
HP Workload Management tools.
- HP has added new Cell board instant Capacity On Demand to its existing
suite of Capacity on Demand offerings, including instant Capacity On Demand
(iCOD), Temporary instant Capacity On Demand and Pay-Per-Use.
- HP is the first to offer complete standby Cell board instant Capacity on
Demand -- CPU, Memory and Cell board -- extending the industry's most
comprehensive and flexible portfolio of On Demand solutions.
- Customers have made HP instant Capacity On Demand their solution of choice
over competitive offerings, resulting in 40 percent of HP Superdome servers
shipping with HP iCOD capabilities.
- The adoption rate has increased 200 percent for the HP Temporary instant
Capacity On Demand solution quarter over quarter.
- HP OpenView software, which delivers the adaptive management platform for
utility computing, has sold 135,000 licenses.
About HP
HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and
services to consumers and businesses. The company's offerings span IT
infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and
imaging and printing. HP completed its acquisition of Compaq Computer
Corporation on May 3, 2002.
http://www.hp.com
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