Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

These new management features for HP's VSE (Virtual Server Environment), which the company is slated to announce June 6, are designed to give IT administrators better access and oversight of the virtual environments created by HP's HP-UX 11i operating system, said Ute Albert, HP's virtualization marketing manager. Besides better management tools, HP, in Palo Alto, Calif., is also looking to offer customers a reason to switch to its Integrity systems, which use Intel's Itanium processors. In 2006, HP pledged to invest $1 billion annually into its Integrity systems and Unix operating system to gain a greater share of the high-end portion of the server market. Read on...

From the horse's mouth... Virtualization, which allows IT resources to be pooled and shared so that supply of resources can meet business demands, is transforming IT in data centers worldwide. The HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) allows HP-UX 11i to go a step further and has integrated virtualization and mainframe-class availability to deliver mission-critical virtualization for customers with the most demanding workloads. HP has broadened the functionality and simplified the deployment of its mission-critical virtualization capabilities for HP-UX 11i . " Deployments of virtualized environments are simpler due to the addition of four new VSE Reference Architectures, including ones for Oracle, SAP software and shared services based on HP's own application server and database implementations. These reference architectures can help cut a customer's deployment time in half. The mainframes want their piece of the meat too. Anyways this was expected.