Announcing a New BSM Solution Offering for Virtualization

Michael_Procopio — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:02:00 GMT

by Michael Procopio

The new offerings include enhancements to HP Server Automation, HP Client Automation, HP Storage Essentials, HP Network Automation, and HP Operations Manager software.

According to a recent report from Gartner⁽¹⁾, "Virtualization’s impact on the overall IT industry has been dramatic, and virtualization will continue to be the leading catalyst for infrastructure and operations software change through 2013. Organizations are looking at ways to cut costs, better utilize assets, and reduce implementation and management time and complexity."

Although virtualization is often adopted to help reduce capital expenditures, it can trigger increased management expenses and lead to more pronounced organizational silos. The new HP offerings bridge all the physical and virtual data center silos through management and automation. This reduces complexity and ultimately management costs.

"HP business service automation software helps us eliminate manual, error-prone tasks by automating server lifecycle management, including provisioning multiple operating systems, software installation, deployment of patches, configuration management and audits," said Ron Cotten, senior manager IT OSS Engineering, Level 3 Communications, a leading international provider of voice, video, and data communications services. "With HP Server Automation, we are able to patch over 1800 servers in 24 hours, which helps us reduce scheduled downtime."

The updated HP business service offerings help you:

· Increase administrator effectiveness with HP Operations Manager for virtualization by monitoring the availability and performance of all virtual and physical assets through a common dashboard.

· Reduce the risk of downtime with HP Network Automation, which for the first time gives the network administrator control of the VMware vSwitch in addition to the physical network environments.

· Provision the right amount of storage to keep applications performing properly without overspending on excess storage with HP Server Automation, the first solution in the industry that gives server administrators this capability.

· Reduce problem resolution times with HP Storage Essentials Performance Edition by quickly identifying, troubleshooting and reporting performance metric related trends in physical and virtual environments.

“To make virtualization cost effective, customers must minimize operating expenses and have seamless management of infrastructure silos,” said Erik Frieberg, vice president of Product Marketing, Software & Solutions, HP. “Our newly enhanced HP business service offerings help customers manage all aspects of the physical and virtual application infrastructure to unlock the true promise of virtualization.”

HP Software Professional Services provides solution consulting services to accelerate the value of business service automation and business service management software investments.

HP Server Automation, HP Client Automation, HP Storage Essentials and HP Network Automation are available now. HP Operations Manager Virtualization Smart Plug-In will be available next month.

HP Software Universe - Mainstage Robin Purohit

Michael_Procopio — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:19:00 GMT

After a break Mainstage split into a Business Intelligence session and a Business Technology Optimization (BTO) session, I went to the later hosted by Robin Purohit, vice president and general manger, Software Products, HP Software & Solutions

Here are some bits I found interesting:

There are 15M virtual servers now and it is expected to double in 2 years.
Three key areas of change IT will see are: virtualization, SaaS and Web 2.0.
Web 2.0 screws up a lot in management, HP is building Web 2.0 compatibility into BTO tools.
Dataprotector, monitoring tools and mapping tools are including or working to include virtualization capability.
Service Manager and Asset Manager are now available as SaaS.
35% of flash apps violate Adobe best practices. HP released a testing tool which you can download for free called SWFScan. The same technology is built into some of HP’s BTO products. Customers can also do a free trial of our scanning SaaS.
One customer cut $5M in costs just in automating incidents with HP Operations Orchestration.
HP Software recently announced a suite of software for operations of Blackberry implementations. See HP and RIM Announce Strategic Alliance to Mobilize Business on BlackBerry for more details.
HP Software is publishing configuration management best practices later this month.
Brian Byun VP Global Alliances from VMware came on stage and announced announced an expanded partnership with HP to jointly develop software to manage VMware hypervisor technology. Denise Dubie at Network World wrote HP, VMware team to manage virtual servers.

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Announcing a New BSM Solution Offering for Virtualization

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