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Designed to deliver business-ready infrastructure, HP Adaptive Infrastructure (AI) with VMware vSphere(TM) v4 can be supplied across various delivery models - on-premise, outsourced, cloud computing - to optimize efficiency, control, and flexibility. It enables customers to manage virtual and physical environments simultaneously, deliver dynamic capacity planning, and automate provisioning and deployment. Multiple productivity tools are included that also promote seamless management.
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HP Expands Adaptive Infrastructure Portfolio with Integration of VMware vSphere 4
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 21, 2009 - HP today announced the integration of VMware vSphere(TM) 4 into its HP Adaptive Infrastructure (AI) portfolio.
The integration includes a broad range of related products and services designed to enable customers to change the economics of their technology infrastructures.
Offering the most comprehensive support of VMware vSphere 4, HP is chosen most often by organizations deploying virtual environments and has more servers running VMware ESX technology than any other vendor.(1)
Virtualization can reduce hardware and power costs, but employing separate management strategies for virtual and physical environments, as many organizations do, can increase costs. The HP AI portfolio enables customers to manage both environments simultaneously, deliver dynamic capacity planning and automate provisioning and deployment.
Designed to deliver a business-ready infrastructure, HP AI with VMware vSphere 4 can be delivered across various delivery models - on-premise, as an outsourced offering or via cloud computing - providing customers with improved efficiency, greater control and flexibility of choice. HP customers also benefit from the many years of development between HP and VMware.
The interoperability of VMware vSphere 4 with HP's portfolio includes:
company's industry-standard virtual I/O fabric.
"Customers who want to divert more resources toward increasing revenue can rely on the combination of HP products and services and VMware vSphere 4 to deliver a truly business-ready technology infrastructure," said Paul Miller, vice president, Marketing, Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP. "HP has worked extensively with VMware to develop solutions that help customers realize the full business value of their virtualization technologies from desktop to data center."
"VMware and HP have a strong relationship that delivers state-of-the-art efficiency, lower capital and operating costs and rich service offerings to our customers, solving real-world business problems," said Raghu Raghuram, vice president and general manager, Server Business Unit, VMware. "With VMware vSphere 4, our combined portfolios will offer simple, packaged solutions that deliver efficient, flexible and reliable IT as a service to meet the most demanding needs of customers of all sizes."
Reduce costs and increase scalability
HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem servers and HP StorageWorks systems are enhanced with support for VMware vSphere 4.
Simplify management and increase business availability
HP interconnect and infrastructure management offerings integrate with VMware vSphere 4 to create a flexible and cost-effective infrastructure.
Increased software support for heterogeneous environments
HP has expanded its support for heterogeneous management of virtualized systems via VMware vSphere 4 environments with offerings in the HP Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software portfolio. With HP, customers can extend their existing management systems to better automate, manage and protect their vSphere physical and virtual environments. HP currently supports VMware vSphere 4 with the HP Data Protector offering and plans to support VMware vSphere 4 across the company's Business Service Automation, Business Service Management and IT Service Management software portfolios.
New virtualization services and education offerings
HP has the largest number of VMware-certified professionals supporting heterogeneous environments, so customers can deploy and manage large-scale virtualization implementations with better business outcomes.
HP VMware Support and Education Services help customers efficiently migrate from VMware Infrastructure 3 to VMware vSphere 4 and offer best-practice consolidation and virtualization recommendations. HP also offers installation and startup services and customized training as well as direct access to the HP Response Center for software technical support.
HP is the largest global VMware Authorized Training partner and HP's VMware Authorized Training Center is the first to train more than 17,000 students on VMware. With the combination of HP's global presence, remote training delivery infrastructure and expertise with the VMware platform, HP offers effective programs for a broad range of VMware products.
More information about HP's support for VMware virtualization is available at http://www.hp.com/go/vmware.
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(1) IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker Q408, April 2009.
(2) VMware VMmark results, March 30, 2009. VMware® VMmark(TM) is a product of VMware, Inc. VMmark utilizes SPECjbb2005® and SPECweb2005®, which are available from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).
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