HP to Transform Server Market with Single Platform for Mission-critical Computing
HP to Transform Server Market with Single Platform for Mission-critical
Computing Expanded HP Converged Infrastructure delivers industry-leading choice,
investment protection
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 22, 2011
------------------------------ HP today announced “Odyssey,” a project to redefine the future of
mission-critical computing with a development roadmap that will unify UNIX®
and x86 server architectures to bring industry-leading availability,
increased performance and uncompromising client choice to a single platform. Organizations are challenged with increasingly stringent service-level
agreements for their most demanding workloads, along with the pressure to
be more efficient with their IT budgets and resources. They need the
availability and resilience of UNIX-based platforms along with the
familiarity and cost-efficiency of industry-standard platforms. Using advanced technology across a common, modular HP
BladeSystemarchitecture, HP is
developing platforms to enable clients to choose the
best environment aligned to their organizations’ needs without compromise,
helping ensure investment protection for the long term. HP’s new development roadmap includes ongoing innovations to HP
Integrityservers, HP
NonStop systems and the
HP-UXand
OpenVMS operating systems. The roadmap also
includes delivering blades with Intel® Xeon® processors for the HP
Superdome 2 enclosure (code name
“DragonHawk”) and the scalable c-Class blade enclosures (code named
“HydraLynx”), while fortifying Windows® and Linux environments with
innovations from HP-UX within the next two years. With the availability of “DragonHawk,” clients will be able to run
mission-critical workloads on HP-UX on Intel Itanium®-based blades while
simultaneously running workloads on Microsoft Windows or Red Hat Enterprise
Linux on Intel Xeon-based blades in the same Superdome 2 enclosure. “Clients have been asking us to expand the mission-critical experience that
is delivered today with HP-UX on Integrity to an x86-based infrastructure,”
said Martin Fink, senior vice president and general manager, Business
Critical Systems, HP. “HP plans to transform the server landscape for
mission-critical computing by using the flexibility of HP
BladeSystemand bringing key HP
technology innovations from Integrity and HP-UX to the
x86 ecosystem. Unlike the competition, HP offers an open, integrated,
single platform approach.” For more than 25 years, HP has powered the most demanding workloads by
building a robust and proven franchise of technology and service
innovations for mission-critical computing. By expanding mission-critical HP Converged
Infrastructureand
bringing select proven innovations to x86 systems, HP will enable
clients running Linux or Windows to: - Increase scalability with 32-socket “DragonHawk” symmetrical
multiprocessing x86 systems that will scale to hundreds of cores and
support large, complex workloads. The systems will enable clients to deploy
the smallest to the largest workloads in a dynamic, highly scalable pool of
IT resources.
- Increase reliability and flexibility with two-, four- and eight-socket
“HydraLynx” scalable x86 server blades with mission-critical virtualization
and availability, all packaged in the robust c-Class enclosures of HP
BladeSystem.
- Increase availability of critical Linux applications with the HP
Serviceguard solution , which
automatically moves application workloads between servers in the event of a
failure or an on-demand request.
- Boost flexibility and availability of x86 systems with HP
nPartitionstechnology
(nPars), which provides precise partitioning of system resources
across multiple or variable workloads. HP nPars is electrically isolated to
eliminate failure points, which allows clients to “scale out” within a
single, robust system.
- Enhance business continuity with HP Analysis Engine for
x86embedded
into the system firmware. HP Analysis Engine goes beyond error
logging to ensure efficient diagnoses and automatic repair of complex
system errors while restoring system stability in seconds.
- Boost reliability and resiliency of x86 systems with fault-tolerant HP
Crossbar Fabricthat
intelligently routes data within the system for redundancy and high
availability.
- Achieve higher levels of availability with HP Mission Critical
Services,
which identify and resolve possible sources of downtime. *What partners are saying about Project Odyssey* “Intel’s continued innovation with a multigeneration Itanium processor
roadmap, combined with existing and future mission-critical capabilities of
Intel Xeon processors, allow HP and Intel to provide customers with greater
flexibility and choice,” said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general
manager, Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, Intel. ”Together with HP
we will be able to give customers the ability to do mission-critical
computing on their terms, with a broad range of operating systems and
applications.” “Amdocs’ experience in implementing HP-UX/Integrity as a mission-critical
platform for our market-leading BSS/OSS solutions at top global service
providers has proven extremely positive,” said Rebecca Prudhomme, vice
president, Product and Solutions Marketing, Amdocs. “Extending HP Converged
Infrastructure features to Linux on x86 will allow customers using the
Superdome 2 architecture to benefit from the cost-effectiveness of x86,
while leveraging the platform’s strength, scalability and availability.” “Customers trust Microsoft and HP with their enterprise computing needs,”
said Eduardo Rosini, corporate vice president, SQL Server Marketing,
Microsoft. “By furthering our partnership, Microsoft and HP will bring
together the world’s leading server and software solutions to let customers
harness the flexibility and scalability of Microsoft Windows Server and SQL
Server on HP Converged Infrastructure for their broad mission-critical
computing needs of tomorrow.” “Red Hat and HP have worked together for more than a decade to continuously
support innovation in server and Linux technologies,” said Paul Cormier,
executive vice president, and president of Products and Technologies, Red
Hat. “Further extending the mission-critical experience to x86 environments
will enable clients to leverage the application performance, scalability
and security provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP for their most
demanding workloads.” More information is available at www.hp.com/go/Odyssey. HP Converged Infrastructure is a key component of
the Instant-On Enterprise . The Instant-On
Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers,
employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly. HP’s premier client event, HP DISCOVER ,
takes place Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 in Vienna, Austria. The event showcases how
organizations can get started on their Instant-On
Enterprise
journeys. *About HP* HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on
people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology
company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal
computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer
problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at
http://www.hp.com.
Computing Expanded HP Converged Infrastructure delivers industry-leading choice,
investment protection
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 22, 2011
------------------------------ HP today announced “Odyssey,” a project to redefine the future of
mission-critical computing with a development roadmap that will unify UNIX®
and x86 server architectures to bring industry-leading availability,
increased performance and uncompromising client choice to a single platform. Organizations are challenged with increasingly stringent service-level
agreements for their most demanding workloads, along with the pressure to
be more efficient with their IT budgets and resources. They need the
availability and resilience of UNIX-based platforms along with the
familiarity and cost-efficiency of industry-standard platforms. Using advanced technology across a common, modular HP
BladeSystemarchitecture, HP is
developing platforms to enable clients to choose the
best environment aligned to their organizations’ needs without compromise,
helping ensure investment protection for the long term. HP’s new development roadmap includes ongoing innovations to HP
Integrityservers, HP
NonStop systems and the
HP-UXand
OpenVMS operating systems. The roadmap also
includes delivering blades with Intel® Xeon® processors for the HP
Superdome 2 enclosure (code name
“DragonHawk”) and the scalable c-Class blade enclosures (code named
“HydraLynx”), while fortifying Windows® and Linux environments with
innovations from HP-UX within the next two years. With the availability of “DragonHawk,” clients will be able to run
mission-critical workloads on HP-UX on Intel Itanium®-based blades while
simultaneously running workloads on Microsoft Windows or Red Hat Enterprise
Linux on Intel Xeon-based blades in the same Superdome 2 enclosure. “Clients have been asking us to expand the mission-critical experience that
is delivered today with HP-UX on Integrity to an x86-based infrastructure,”
said Martin Fink, senior vice president and general manager, Business
Critical Systems, HP. “HP plans to transform the server landscape for
mission-critical computing by using the flexibility of HP
BladeSystemand bringing key HP
technology innovations from Integrity and HP-UX to the
x86 ecosystem. Unlike the competition, HP offers an open, integrated,
single platform approach.” For more than 25 years, HP has powered the most demanding workloads by
building a robust and proven franchise of technology and service
innovations for mission-critical computing. By expanding mission-critical HP Converged
Infrastructureand
bringing select proven innovations to x86 systems, HP will enable
clients running Linux or Windows to: - Increase scalability with 32-socket “DragonHawk” symmetrical
multiprocessing x86 systems that will scale to hundreds of cores and
support large, complex workloads. The systems will enable clients to deploy
the smallest to the largest workloads in a dynamic, highly scalable pool of
IT resources.
- Increase reliability and flexibility with two-, four- and eight-socket
“HydraLynx” scalable x86 server blades with mission-critical virtualization
and availability, all packaged in the robust c-Class enclosures of HP
BladeSystem.
- Increase availability of critical Linux applications with the HP
Serviceguard solution , which
automatically moves application workloads between servers in the event of a
failure or an on-demand request.
- Boost flexibility and availability of x86 systems with HP
nPartitionstechnology
(nPars), which provides precise partitioning of system resources
across multiple or variable workloads. HP nPars is electrically isolated to
eliminate failure points, which allows clients to “scale out” within a
single, robust system.
- Enhance business continuity with HP Analysis Engine for
x86embedded
into the system firmware. HP Analysis Engine goes beyond error
logging to ensure efficient diagnoses and automatic repair of complex
system errors while restoring system stability in seconds.
- Boost reliability and resiliency of x86 systems with fault-tolerant HP
Crossbar Fabricthat
intelligently routes data within the system for redundancy and high
availability.
- Achieve higher levels of availability with HP Mission Critical
Services,
which identify and resolve possible sources of downtime. *What partners are saying about Project Odyssey* “Intel’s continued innovation with a multigeneration Itanium processor
roadmap, combined with existing and future mission-critical capabilities of
Intel Xeon processors, allow HP and Intel to provide customers with greater
flexibility and choice,” said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general
manager, Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, Intel. ”Together with HP
we will be able to give customers the ability to do mission-critical
computing on their terms, with a broad range of operating systems and
applications.” “Amdocs’ experience in implementing HP-UX/Integrity as a mission-critical
platform for our market-leading BSS/OSS solutions at top global service
providers has proven extremely positive,” said Rebecca Prudhomme, vice
president, Product and Solutions Marketing, Amdocs. “Extending HP Converged
Infrastructure features to Linux on x86 will allow customers using the
Superdome 2 architecture to benefit from the cost-effectiveness of x86,
while leveraging the platform’s strength, scalability and availability.” “Customers trust Microsoft and HP with their enterprise computing needs,”
said Eduardo Rosini, corporate vice president, SQL Server Marketing,
Microsoft. “By furthering our partnership, Microsoft and HP will bring
together the world’s leading server and software solutions to let customers
harness the flexibility and scalability of Microsoft Windows Server and SQL
Server on HP Converged Infrastructure for their broad mission-critical
computing needs of tomorrow.” “Red Hat and HP have worked together for more than a decade to continuously
support innovation in server and Linux technologies,” said Paul Cormier,
executive vice president, and president of Products and Technologies, Red
Hat. “Further extending the mission-critical experience to x86 environments
will enable clients to leverage the application performance, scalability
and security provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP for their most
demanding workloads.” More information is available at www.hp.com/go/Odyssey. HP Converged Infrastructure is a key component of
the Instant-On Enterprise . The Instant-On
Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers,
employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly. HP’s premier client event, HP DISCOVER ,
takes place Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 in Vienna, Austria. The event showcases how
organizations can get started on their Instant-On
Enterprise
journeys. *About HP* HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on
people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology
company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal
computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer
problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at
http://www.hp.com.