Innovation continues for HP

 http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080317xa.html

• HP Insight Dynamics - VSE – This is the industry’s first software to analyze and optimize physical and virtual resources in the same way. The software helps customers extend the life of their data centers with advanced energy-aware capacity planning. HP Insight Dynamics - VSE will support multi-vendor hypervisor technologies and can reduce costs of common data center tasks by as much as 40 percent. Previewed today and expected to be available in the second calendar quarter of 2008, HP Insight Dynamics - VSE seamlessly plugs into HP Systems Insight Manager, the world’s most popular platform management tool.
• HP Operations Orchestration enhancements – New integrations extend comprehensive automation across all physical and virtual infrastructures. By automating manual and error-prone processes across clients, applications, servers, networks, and storage, these integrations help customers better manage and automate business services. Additionally, these enhancements help customers reduce labor costs, increase service availability and meet compliance requirements by providing auditable, standardized processes.

HP announced two software products to enhance the adta center automation and operational field. They have evolved their VSE tool to aid in the management of physical and virtual servers seemlessly, (it does sound promising, I’ll have to read up more about it). Also they have announced their Operations Orchestration enhancements, which brings a focus on automating activities in the virtual and physical infrastructure, I’ll need to read up more. However, automation of the data center could be a real enabler, being able to provision servers, to migrate work load or instances between physical platforms could enable IT to be more adaptive to the business need, better suited to the ‘on demand’ infrastructure you hear people talk about. Do check it out.