HP broadened its Adaptive Infrastructure (AI) portfolio with new software solutions that enable customers to reduce costs and improve data centre management as they position their businesses for success.
The announcement spotlights significant enhancements to HP Insight Dynamics – VSE, the industry's first software solution to manage physical and virtual resources in the same way. These include options for Insight Orchestration and Insight Recovery, the first in a series of product announcements planned for 2009 that represent an increased focus by the company on the HP AI initiative and portfolio.
With businesses cutting costs, reducing risk and leveraging IT resources to seize greater competitive advantage, the HP AI initiative delivers the integrated product and service set needed for comprehensive management and 24/7, lights-out operations for next-generation technology environments. HP AI's proven methodology enables customers to move from high-cost IT islands to an agile technology infrastructure that delivers real value to their businesses.
New enhancements to HP Insight Dynamics – VSE enable data centre administrators to rapidly deploy new technology to meet changing business needs. The new Insight Orchestration option dramatically reduces the time needed to design, configure and deploy new technology. The option is available now on HP ProLiant servers and is expected to be available on HP Integrity servers later this year.
The new Insight Recovery option lets customers easily restart applications running on physical and virtual servers at a remote recovery site with the click of a button. Insight Recovery reduces risks associated with downtime by providing cost-effective disaster recovery for environments running on either HP BladeSystem servers or VMware virtual machines. To resume services quickly, Insight Recovery is integrated with HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array-based products running Continuous Access data-replication software with HP ProLiant servers.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE now includes enhanced capacity-planning features. New flexibility options for the HP Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity servers include online migration for HP Integrity Virtual Machines and the ability to move workloads on physical HP Integrity blade servers with drag-and-drop ease.