HP has enhanced its network management offering, with the introduction of Automated Network Management (ANM) 9.2 for converged infrastructure.
The company says the software will enable customers to keep abreast of constantly changing business demands, as it delivers a unified network-management platform that is efficient, automated and secure.
According to Shane Pearson, VP, Product Marketing, Software, Enterprise Group at HP, as businesses introduce new technologies to their converged infrastructures, the need for a network-management blueprint for data centres grows.
He says: “HP Automated Network Management software enables clients to increase network visibility and save costs like never before with a single solution that optimises business decisions as well as IT investments.”
According to him, businesses and governments are tasked with delivering quality services, maintaining operations management, and innovating with fewer resources. In addition, they need to minimise infrastructure complexity associated with the proliferation of cloud and virtualisation technologies, and make sure that their networks can support business-critical applications.
HP ANM 9.2 includes major enhancements to HP Network Node Manager (NNMi), HP Network Automation, NNMi Performance and NNMi Advanced Smart Plug-in add-on modules (iSPIs). It also provides access to new network-management key performance indicators (KPIs) that deliver greater insight into network availability and performance, allowing IT practitioners to make better-informed investment decisions.
The software also gives businesses better control with heterogeneous network support, with management of fault, performance, availability, change and configuration automation.
In addition, it offers increased visibility by providing users with a single view of how applications and the supporting network are helping meet critical enterprise objectives across hybrid IT environments.
HP says it also lowers costs, through improved prioritisation of existing and future infrastructure investments based on new KPIs specifically designed for network management.
“ANM also automates change, configuration, compliance, cloud life cycle and routine network administrative tasks, saving time and freeing resources to focus on other key technology initiatives. It delivers converged network security management by connecting network and security operations, which allows ANM users to correlate security events with network fault, availability and performance events,” says Pearson.
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