HP launches new virtualisation products, services

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New Delhi: To meet the growing demands of technology environments, Hewlett-Packard announced several new products, services and solutions to enable customers to realize the full potential and benefits of their virtualisation projects. These new offerings are aimed at business needs that span from desktops to data centres.

Virtualisation can provide several benefits, including increased business agility, lowered costs and reduced risk of downtime. When properly implemented, virtualisation becomes a strategic enabler for data centre transformation.

Recent global research conducted on behalf of HP has revealed that while 86 per cent of technology decision makers have implemented virtualisation projects, the vast majority of respondents expect to have virtualised just 25 per cent of their technology environments by 2010. While many of those surveyed anticipate eventually reaching 75 per cent virtualisation of their total environments, only one-third of these technology implementers recognize virtualisation as a valuable business tool. Two thirds of implementers relegate virtualisation to the role of technology enabler.

"Virtualisation is a powerful step in transforming IT," said Durgadutt Nedungadi, Director, Marketing & Alliances, Technology Solutions Group, HP India. "To do it right means successfully managing and automating mixed physical and virtual environments."

HP's latest hardware, software and services offerings are aimed at enabling enterprises to blend physical and virtual assets to expand virtualisation beyond the data centre.

HP Business Service Management and IT Service Management solutions have been enhanced with new virtualisation monitoring and support capabilities to link business services to the physical and virtual resources that deliver and manage them. The New HP Asset Manager identifies and manages virtual machine asset inventory and licenses, allowing customers to pay for only the licenses they need. HP Network Node Manager i-series has also been updated to monitor the performance and availability of networks supporting dynamic, virtualised environments

To overcome infrastructure barriers, where current infrastructure is not taking complete advantage of virtualisation, the company unveiled new offering designed to lower costs, mitigate the risk of downtime and free up resources that can drive additional business services. The newly launched HP Virtualization Accelerator Services are predefined consulting services for planning, designing and implementing virtualisation initiatives.