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HP Enhances Automation Software
April 2009 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
HP announced new enhancements to its Business Service Automation (BSA) software suite to help customers better manage and reduce operational costs associated with virtualized data centers.
Enhancements within the HP BSA software suite include updated versions of:
– HP Storage Essentials, a standards-based Storage Resource Management software, helps customers manage the increased storage requirements of virtualized data centers by optimizing capacity allocation and utilization.
– HP Operations Orchestration, an automated workflow software, allows customers to reduce operational costs by better provisioning and repurposing servers and storage without service downtime.
HP also launched HP BSA Essentials, an online community and subscription services offering that helps customers maximize the value of their HP BSA software investments.
New enhancements to HP Storage Essentials software help customers:
– Optimize storage capacity allocation and utilization by allowing IT organizations to discover and map VMware hosts to storage and storage area network (SAN) dependencies. This will enable the IT staff to remove storage from virtual machines that are not being fully utilized to other areas that need it most.
– Improve storage administration efficiency and reduce task errors by automatically provisioning storage to a VMware hypervisor or guest operating system.
– Drive greater collaboration across application, server and storage domains by breaking down silos, through new integrations with HP Operations Orchestration workflow software and across the HP BSA software suite.
New and enhanced integrations for HP Operations Orchestration software
HP Operations Orchestration software saves customers time and money associated with managing routine IT operations by standardizing processes. The software automates incident resolution, change orchestration and maintenance tasks in the data center.
New enhancements to HP Operations Orchestration software help customers:
– Provision and repurpose additional servers and storage capacity without service downtime through an automated workflow.
– Reduce virtual server deployment time from hours to minutes through enhanced integration with the HP BSA suite.
– Manage heterogeneous virtualization technologies with a single solution through new integrations with VMware Virtual Infrastructure, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft® HyperV.
HP BSA Essentials helps customers maximize the benefits of automation and virtualization. The online portal connects customers to BSA Essentials Subscription Services and the BSA Essentials Community.
– BSA Essentials Subscription Services provide access to security alerts and updates to regulation policy templates used for compliance auditing. This helps customers reduce risk by assessing and correcting security or policy violations that affect the technology infrastructure.
– The BSA Essentials Community allows customers to find updated product information, share best practices and get new content, such as virtualization management workflows for HP Operations Orchestration software.
HP BSA Essentials is available now. Access is available to HP BSA software customers with a current maintenance contract.
HP Software Professional Services provides consulting services for BSA software to help customers maximize the value of their BSA virtualization solution.
HP Operations Orchestration and HP Storage Essentials software are available now from HP and select channel partners.
