Systems/Enterprise:
HP DELIVERS NEXT PHASE OF UTILITY COMPUTING
HP announced that it will deliver the next phase of utility computing
capabilities through a portfolio of lower cost, modular offerings including
the new HP BladeSystem. The HP BladeSystem is an integrated environment
building on current HP blade servers, services and networking plus powerful
new management software and virtualization tools to help lower the overall
cost of blades ownership.
To accelerate adoption of the HP BladeSystem, HP will provide installation and
start-up services of blade management software for $1,600 per engagement.
HP's modular approach to utility computing makes it easier for customers in
volume markets to acquire and integrate the capabilities of the HP Utility
Data Center into existing environments and deliver information technology (IT)
as a service. In addition to the HP BladeSystem, the following modular utility
computing offerings are available from HP:
- HP Virtual Server Environment -- automatically grows and shrinks vertical,
scale-up resources in real time according to changing business priorities.
- HP OpenView Change and Configuration management solutions automate the
change and configuration of IT resources to reduce operational costs of data
center environments.
- HP Utility Services delivers pay-as-you-go computing through HP Managed
Services.
Bausch & Lomb Deploys The HP BladeSystem
Bausch & Lomb has selected HP BladeSystem servers to bring greater value and
overall efficiencies to its IT infrastructure.
"At Bausch & Lomb, we use HP blade servers to help us streamline our
datacenter to better synchronize IT with evolving business needs," said David
Della Vedova, vice president of IT and Global Technology Services at Bausch &
Lomb. "As a result, we improved efficiency, customer responsiveness and
reduced datacenter costs by dramatically reducing deployment and ongoing
management expenses. We chose HP, a pioneer in the blade server industry,
because of its ability to offer a complete blade solution including hardware,
software, services and virtualization capabilities."
Based on industry standards, integrated blade systems can deliver lower
infrastructure costs -- often 25 percent less expensive overall than
comparable traditional rack-mount infrastructures and, with automated control,
lower annual support costs -- more than doubling the number of devices that
can be managed with the same amount of staff. The HP BladeSystem is designed
to build on this value by offering overall network management and
virtualization through resource utilization and services, changing how
customers look at a blade ecosystem.
"HP looks forward to extending the value of our BladeSystem family of
solutions together with partners to meet the needs of enterprise and small and
medium business customers. In fact, by 2008, we expect that 50 percent of HP's
scale-out architecture business will be based on the HP BladeSystem," said
Rick Becker, vice president and general manager of the BladeSystem Division at
HP. "HP's new, modular approach to delivering utility-like capabilities with
the HP BladeSystem will put customers on a fast track to becoming an Adaptive
Enterprise."
New Management Software Tools, Including A Single, Dynamic Hub For Blades
At the center of any infrastructure, companies need to implement strong
management and virtualization tools to allow them to align IT resources with
business needs. HP has integrated Utility Data Center capabilities into the HP
BladeSystem management suite of tools, which is designed to manage, control
and virtualize an existing IT infrastructure as one system from a single
remote console in order to maximize utilization and automate complex, manual
tasks.
Key new management software tools, integrated with HP OpenView technology, can
be applied to existing or new blade infrastructures:
- HP Systems Insight Manager 4.2 (SIM) -- now optimized to manage the
complete HP BladeSystem environment, SIM 4.2 is the single hub of control
through one console for all system components and access to all tools for
complete lifecycle management. SIM 4.2 is the first version of SIM to leverage
plug-ins including HP OpenView technology, providing customers with a single,
standards-based tool that enables client, storage, network and power
management, server deployment, in addition to performance and workload
management.
- HP Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack -- integrated with SIM 4.2,
the pack provides management, control and a unified view of virtual machines
and associated host server resources, including virtual machine products from
Microsoft and VMware.
- HP Essentials Automation Controller Pack -- coordinates the actions of
other HP management tools to enable simplified and automated event-based
policy and tasks across the blade infrastructures including provisioning of
compute nodes, operating systems, IP addresses, virtual local area networks
(VLANs), load balancers and storage LUNs.
- HP Essentials Patch and Vulnerability Pack -- integrated into SIM 4.2 and
utilizing HP OpenView Radia, the pack enables known software vulnerabilities
to be automatically identified across the HP BladeSystem and permanently fixed
using HP patch management technology.
- Other upcoming tools include the HP Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack,
which detects and analyzes network bottlenecks; HP Essentials Insight
Lights-Out 1.62, a built-in management processor for quick and easy setup of
blade servers and enclosures; and power governing technology for Intel
Xeon-based blade servers that provides dynamic changes in processor frequency
and voltage.
New Services And Financing To Help Implement The Adaptive Enterprise
Two new types of services are also now available, including defined
installation and startup services as well as statement of work services. The
new installation services provide detailed knowledge transfer in HP SIM
fundamentals and help get HP BladeSystem management up and running in a pilot
environment in a single day at $1,600 per session. The new statement of work
services, charged at an hourly rate, are designed to deploy the HP BladeSystem
management tools in a production environment over multiple days. Customers are
assigned a service delivery specialist and provided with detailed
documentation.
Customers also can finance a full range of HP solutions through HP Financial
Services, and with the newly announced HP Jumpstart Success offer, companies
can choose between low lease rates or deferring all payments until January
2005 at no additional cost. This special offer applies to all HP products and
professional services -- including HP BladeSystem solutions, PCs, servers,
storage devices and network and systems management software.
More information about the solutions and services described in this
announcement is available at
www.hp.com/go/bladesystem.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and
institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure,
personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and
printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, HP revenue totaled $78.4
billion. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com.
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