HP Beefs up Adaptive Infrastructure Offering

January 19, 2009: HP has bolstered its adaptive infrastructure portfolio with a range of new software aimed at reducing costs and improving data centre management in today’s challenging economic environment.

With research showing that data centres are increasingly struggling under the weight of increasing service levels and decreasing budgets and staff numbers, HP has released its Insight Dynamics – VSE, what it claims is the industry’s first software solution to manage physical and virtual resources in the same way.

The company says the initiative delivers the integrated product and service set needed for comprehensive management and 24/7, lights-out operations for next-generation technology environments.

“Cost management and agility are top of mind for chief information officers, yet significant portions of technology budgets are invested in maintenance instead of innovation,” said Duncan Campbell, vice president of Adaptive Infrastructure at HP. “HP is building on our AI initiative by delivering offerings to meet challenges customers face today as they scrutinise their technology choices, and to help them emerge strong when the economy improves.”

HP says that features such as Insight Orchestration reduces the time needed to design, configure and deploy new technology by giving administrators the ability to design templates that specify the infrastructure required to run different applications on servers, as well as associated storage and network resources.

A web-based portal and integrated workflow engine is also included to facilitate consistent implementation throughout the data centre, eliminates human error and accelerating deployment.

The new Insight Recovery option lets applications running on physical and virtual servers at a remote recovery site to be restarted with one click, and Insight Dynamics – VSE now includes enhanced capacity-planning features such as software to automatically collect and analyse detailed utilisation data from Dell, IBM and other Windows-based x86 servers.

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