HP introduces new VDI

At VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, Ann Livermore, executive vice president of HP’s services organization, announces two new virtualization solutions that will give system administrators the ability to better virtualize and converge their entire IT infrastructure by enabling access of virtual and physical assets inside the environment.

‘Today we’re announcing a whole set of additional solutions along with VMware, and these are things that we think greatly extend the value and capabilities around our virtualization solutions. The first one extends the power of the desktop all the way back to the data center. What we’re introducing is our HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Reference Architecture. And this allows you to plan, implement and have a highly scalable computing infrastructure based on built from the desktop. The second introduction is a solution which will enable you to greatly increase the productivity of the administrators inside your environment and to be able to manage both the physical and virtual assets in the environment. So this is taking our insight control software and making it available along with vCenter. And this is integrated fully in all of our ProLiant products and also our BladeSystem products so you’ve got that integration right from the box of the management capabilities, and just a dramatic improvement in the productivity for the administrators. A step further than that is our next solution which is also focused on helping with the management of the environment, which, again, we think is one of the key challenges around getting the benefits from virtualization. And this is a step where we’ve taken some enhancements to our HP Operation’s Center software and also our HP Business Service Automation software. And we’ve taken this and done some additional work to enable, again, the full management of the environment. Not just the individual boxes but the environment for both a virtual and a physical world. So you look at all these things and go back to the trends I was mentioning the huge demands that are sitting on top of almost every CIO today and these 3 big trends happening in the marketplace. The data centers in need of transformation, the explosion of information that has to be managed, being able to take services that are being delivered and integrate them into your environment.”

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