HP continues the innovation

Computerworld

April 8, 2009 (Network World) HP Wednesday announced updates to its business service automation suite designed to help customers cut the cost of managing virtualization and improve service quality.

The company updated two software applications and introduced one new offering in its BSA suite, which is built on technology HP acquired with Opsware.

“We see a huge opportunity to cut back on labor bloat. When you have very expensive resources, the storage administrator is one of the most expensive people in the data center. Logging into storage arrays and checking for capacity is a huge waste of their time,” says Michel Feaster, senior director of products for Business Service Automation Software at HP. “We want to take all these low-level tasks and apply automation to take advantage of the huge opportunity for productivity improvements.”

Anything that we can do to reduce the time to live, the time it takes between when the business request infrastructure or resources and the time at which it’s brought online has to be a good thing. I’ll need to read up more.

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