HP announced Tuesday the next generation of its data center automation, orchestration and cloud management software, which is designed to enable enterprise IT to rapidly deliver services on a massive scale – on premises or via the cloud – to meet changing enterprise needs. Social networking, mobility, big data and cloud services are changing the role of IT from infrastructure support to acting as a driver of business growth through rapid delivery of services and application releases. However, managing complex distributed systems and heterogeneous environments is time consuming and hinders agility and innovation.
HP is introducing a comprehensive, integrated portfolio of software and services that helps to automate the complete life cycle of IT services – from routine data center maintenance to the delivery of business processes. By automating repetitive, manual and time-consuming operations, the automation and cloud management software from HP minimizes complexities in heterogeneous environments and allows IT to focus on higher-impact activities to increase the overall value for the business. HP's automation, orchestration and cloud management software solutions provide the essential foundation for delivering application and infrastructure services. “Automation is key to enterprises getting a solid return on investment from the cloud; by providing better cloud management through automation, IT departments can deliver services on a massive scale,” said Khaled Alsaleh, Country Manager, Software, HP Saudi Arabia. “Reducing manual, repetitive tasks for company resources is something HP has consistently identified as being key to freeing up employees to concentrate on improving customer service. This latest launch is another way to help organizations accelerate time to value of IT services, lower IT costs, and improve employee efficiency.” HP Operations Orchestration (OO) 10 reduces the time needed to build and deploy business processes – on premises or via the cloud – from weeks to minutes by automating all application and infrastructure runbooks. By automating IT runbooks on a massive scale, HP OO 10 can rapidly deliver infrastructure capacity when needed, and automates application services that rely on heterogeneous components. In addition, HP OO 10 speeds time to value with out-of-the-box support for more than 5,000 IT operations, including new support for Amazon S3 Storage, HP ArcSight, HP Fortify, OpenStack and SAP applications. This enables IT organizations to quickly and easily allowing automate their business processes. The HP SA 10 enterprise-grade server life cycle management platform allows IT to manage more than 100,000 physical and virtual servers from a single pane of glass to eliminate management complexity. It also improves operational economics by reducing the administrator-to-server ratio by up to 60 percent. — SG
