Speaking today at OracleWorld Paris, Shane Robison, chief strategy and technology officer, HP, stated that HP and Oracle offer customers a complementary approach to grid computing.
During his keynote address, Robison cited HP`s grid strategy, with its emphasis on innovation and industry collaboration, as pivotal to the adaptive enterprise, extending its ability to deliver infrastructures where business and IT are perfectly synchronised.
HP`s commitment to grid-enable its entire product line complements the recent launch of Oracle Database 10g. HP`s support of Oracle 10g extends its Adaptive Enterprise vision to deliver a standards-based framework for grid computing, focusing on leveraging open grid standards such as the Globus Toolkit and Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) across enterprise product lines. HP has already grid-enabled its ProLiant, Integrity and NonStop server lines as well as its existing AlphaServer and HP9000 systems.
Robison stated: "HP and Oracle are continuing to develop solutions that deliver on the grid concept. The combination of Oracle 10g supported by HP is the first significant industry step to bringing grid services into reality, offering the first commercial grid application for the enterprise available across multiple platforms.
"Our aim is to enable grid computing to become a commercial reality. By creating enterprise-class grids operating across multiple, heterogeneous computing environments, IT can become a platform for both efficiently and effectively operating the business, and effectively delivering any service. In this way, the grid becomes a key technology for delivering the adaptive enterprise, where IT and business strategies are intrinsically linked," he continued.
In addition to offering a range of grid-ready solutions, HP has extended the capabilities of the HP OpenView platform, a move that is central to HP`s grid strategy. Together with partners, HP is formalising the Web Services Management Framework (WSMF), designed to provide a logical architecture for the management of resources, thus allowing OpenView to become an enterprise management platform for managing all services and resources.
"HP`s grid strategy is a long-term commitment aimed at offering the greatest value to customers, with the ultimate goal of our approach being to render almost anything IT-related as a service. By expanding OpenView to deliver comprehensive, real-time business process intelligence, we can enable immediate IT resource response for services, hence fulfilling a key criteria of both grid computing and adaptive enterprise," said Robison.
During OracleWorld Paris, HP will showcase a number of products and solutions, including:
* Itanium 2-based HP Integrity server running Oracle Database 10g;
* HP OpenView Data Storage Data Protector;
* HP Parallel Database Clusters for Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux;
* Oracle Application Server 10g running on HP platforms; and
* HP and Oracle grid-enabled technologies for the adaptive enterprise.
Additional information about HP`s enterprise grid initiative is available at http://www.hp.com/techservers/grid/index.html.
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