HP has outlined its vision for adaptive systems management and introduced major extensions to its flagship management product, the HP OpenView software suite.
The company`s new Adaptive Management Platform allows customers to more efficiently use heterogeneous infrastructure resources in their enterprises, allowing them to experience significant gains in productivity and cost savings with their current assets.
Customers may typically only use 20% to 35% of their available IT capacity. HP`s solution offers the potential to increase usage rates to 75% and greater, maximising an enterprise`s return on IT spending.
In addition to the Adaptive Management Platform, HP has announced a range of other enhancements to its HP OpenView and HP OpenCall product suites. HP introduced more than 30 new or expanded software capabilities that help reduce operational costs and improve productivity and return on investment for enterprises, service providers and network equipment providers.
"With these announcements, HP is extending the reach of traditional management software to offer customers immediate knowledge of their changing business environments, so they can intelligently respond to unforeseen change, endure crises, seize opportunities and lead markets," says Hannes Lategan, Software Business Manager at HP South Africa.
Current technology allows companies to continuously monitor their computing infrastructure and respond when problems occur. HP`s new software augments this ability with new capabilities that enable intelligent responses, such as automatically adding or reallocating resources.
The Adaptive Management Platform extends the capabilities of HP OpenView service management software by using the collected strengths of HP`s systems-level management, high-availability solutions and virtualisation offerings. It provides a comprehensive approach to IT management, including asset aggregation, virtualisation, simplification, business process-infrastructure integration, Web services, mobility and security management.
HP`s Adaptive Management Platform is at work today through the virtualisation, utility controller and service management software within HP`s Utility Data Center (UDC). By aggregating and virtualising all of the resources within a data centre (or even multiple data centres), including the servers, appliances, networks and storage, the UDC allows these resources to be shared and applied dynamically to any application at any time.
Utility controller software subsequently allocates resources rapidly within the UDC to specific workloads enabling users to design, configure and reassign data centre resources with drag-and-drop simplicity in order to meet user requirements. Service management software assures that these resources are meeting or exceeding service-level expectations and automatically responds to continuously changing business demands to supply the required resources to deliver optimal business intelligence.
Over the next 18 months, the company plans to roll-out significant new adaptive management platform solutions particularly in the areas of virtualisation, automatic provisioning, business-level service level agreements, integration of business processes and operations, and in-depth service management.
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