, August 17th, 2005 – HP today showcased its next generation solutions for Viete companies looking to evolve into Adaptive Enterprises. HP is organizing a 12 countries infrastructure solutions roadshow across Asia Pacific for customers to showcase the company's business and customer momentum in the region as well as the latest products and solution suites.
“HP is winning business with our Adaptive Enterprise strategy because we help customers exploit change for competitive advantage,” said Mrs. Tran Thi Minh Thuan, General Director, HP Viet Nam. “Today’s enterprise announcements address the challenges companies face dealing with change. They need to ensure continuity for critical business processes to control the IT infrastructure and consolidate IT resources to cut cost and complexity.”
HP’s adaptive enterprise strategy is aimed at companies and chief information officers (CIOs) that demand more out of their IT environments and partners - more accountability, more agility and a better return on information technology. It tightens the link between IT and business objectives so companies can anticipate and rapidly respond to new market requirements, as well as create and capture new opportunities.
The HP enterprise roadshow themed ' HP Adaptive Enterprise: Harness the Power of your IT Infrastructure ' will be covering 12 key countries in Asia Pacific starting June 14, 2005 in
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Asia Pacific customers benefit from Adaptive
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Schneider Electric
Asia Pacific: With increasing demand for converged and integrated solutions fuelling growth in the electrical, automation and communication industry, Schneider was experiencing increasing business pressure to provide solutions. To react faster than its competitors, Schneider Electric counted on its new IT infrastructure based on leading-edge HP solutions to provide faster business-critical information and better business continuity, enabling Schneider to leave the competition behind.
'By migrating from Sun Microsystems to HP, Schneider Electric reaps the benefits of more centralised ERP management and smoother regional operations,” said Lee Chong Leong, Regional MIS Manager for Schneider Electric. “From a business perspective, it made perfect sense. The cost of HP's proposed infrastructure was 24% less than the cost of upgrading our existing system. No matter how you upgrade a three-year-old system, the fact is the new infrastructure will always perform better. When you take this into consideration, the choice was obvious.”
Bank of : The Bank was under competitive pressure from both public and private sector banks, including leading multinationals well along with technology-enabled transformations. In a pioneering move in 2004, which departed from industry norms in , Bank of India decided to outsource its IT environment to HP because it recognized that IT was necessary to increase productivity, standardization and drive competitive advantage. The mandate included providing IT outsourcing services, including the implementation and management of a core banking solution across Bank of India’s 750 branches in . as well as providing a unified interface for customers and produce faster time to market for new products and services.
“Since our relationship with HP began more than a year ago, we’ve become more agile, able to focus more of our resources on our core competencies and as a result are providing a better banking experience for our customers,” said D. Krishnamurthy, general manager, Information Technology, Bank of India. “We are delighted that these accomplishments are being acknowledged in the outsourcing industry.”
HP and Bank of India recently announced that the companies’ IT outsourcing engagement with HP has been selected as the winner for the
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Center ’s 2005 Outsourcing Excellence Awards “Best First Steps” category.
The Hong Kong Companies Registry (CR): CR successfully completed phase one of its Integrated Companies Registry Information System (ICRIS), a complete IT systems upgrade that enables the organization to offer faster, more cost effective and efficient services to the local and overseas business communities. The deployment of ICRIS phase one called for delivery of a total solution from HP that comprises project management, development, implementation, supply and installation of a broad suite of hardware and software, as well as integration services for software customization, data conversion, training and provision of disaster recovery services. The first phase of the ICRIS implementation enables the provision of public online access to a comprehensive range of searchable data on Hong Kong-registered companies, including digitized images of all company documentation.
SK Telecom (SKT): SK Telecom (SKT) is a recognized innovator in - one of the world’s most “mobilized” nations. Serving 18.8 million subscribers on its 3G (third generation) network, SKT has deployed the HP Mobile E-services Server, a key component of the HP Service Delivery Platform (SDP). The HP SDP helps providers create and deliver services for mobile, fixed and broadband networks, enabling them to introduce new services rapidly, efficiently and at reduced cost and risk. HP worked closely with SKT to help define its business and operational needs and to leverage the flexible architecture of the HP SDP. The HP solution is now a core element in SKT’s new unified framework, called the Next Generation Convergence Platform (NGCP), which enables SKT and innovative developers to create and deliver new voice and data services much more quickly, more cost-effectively and at lower risk.
“ is one of the most demanding wireless markets in the world, and SKT wants its customers to be among the first to enjoy the full benefits of the mobile lifestyle,” said Myung-Sung Lee, senior vice president, Technology Strategy Group, SK Telecom. “HP understands our business and has been instrumental in helping us build the flexible, open platform we need to produce a steady flow of innovative services for our customers.”
Key Announcements
The world’s most reliable server for business continuity and availability
The HP Integrity NonStop server is the first commercial server to scale to up to 4,080 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors. The new server delivers 100 times the reliability of previous systems (99.99999 percent hardware availability) at half the cost of a mainframe. It delivers the continuous uptime that is critical in industries such as healthcare, financial services, government, transportation, communications, retail and manufacturing.
The server’s application virtualization capability accommodates rapid and unpredictable growth in data with reduced management costs and without compromising service levels or creating user disruptions.
“HP NonStop technology is at the heart of our business, powering Sprint’s most critical applications,” said Andrew Davey, senior manager, Network Systems and Computing Design, Sprint. “The new HP Integrity NonStop server, now a more affordable standards-based architecture, ensures our investment is protected and that we’re able to count on the highest levels of availability, scalability, data integrity and response time, helping us to provide our customers with the highest levels of service.”
First unified software to control servers, clients, printers and storage
HP Systems Insight Manager 5.0 (SIM) is the industry’s first unified platform to integrate the management of server and storage infrastructure. By providing both server and storage infrastructure management capabilities “out of the box,” the software enables customers to reduce the cost and complexity of IT maintenance, freeing resources to focus on innovation.
HP SIM 5.0 delivers fault monitoring, inventory reporting and configuration management for HP ProLiant, HP Integrity and HP 9000 systems, and now the HP StorageWorks XP, EVA and MSA families of storage arrays. HP Integrity NonStop systems will also now be managed by SIM.
HP SIM 5.0 is based on the latest industry standards and open source application software from JBoss to enable management of non-HP servers and storage and to ensure interoperability with enterprise management platforms such as HP OpenView Operations, HP OpenView Network Node Manager and third-party tools.
Optional plug-ins for HP SIM 5.0 allows customers to add powerful lifecycle features while continuing to benefit from common security and configuration management. HP SIM 5.0 integrates with a broad range of optional plug-ins, including HP ProLiant Essentials, HP Integrity Essentials and HP Storage Essentials. Enhanced plug-ins include:
· HP Server Migration Pack to automate migration of application workloads from virtual machines to physical servers to more efficiently allocate resources and consolidate application workloads;
· HP Storage Essentials 5.0 enhanced to provide SQL database availability and performance views;
· HP Client Manager 6.1 to lower support costs by reducing the time to configure networked HP desktops, notebooks and workstations, as well as by diagnosing and resolving hardware issues;
· Web Jetadmin 7.8 to improve control of imaging and printing. The industry standard for peripherals management and a key component of HP’s Total Print Management offering, Web Jetadmin 7.8 now offers enhanced support for additional third-party devices.
Consolidate with HP BladeSystem enhancements, virtualization solution for SAP
HP unveiled an expanded partner program, HP BladeSystem Solution Builder, to accelerate the integration of hardware and software solutions on HP BladeSystem. HP is collaborating with leading technology and service providers and bringing innovations from hundreds of independent hardware vendors and independent software vendors, including Brocade, Cisco, McDATA, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat and VMware, to simplify customers’ adoption of industry-standard blade servers.
With its new HP BladeSystem Solution Builder Program, HP is delivering broader features and capabilities for customers’ HP BladeSystem environments with the support they demand from their channel of choice. HP BladeSystem offers thousands of applications from hundreds of vertical and horizontal software solutions providers with support for both Windows® and Linux environments.
The new HP Virtualized Infrastructure Solutions for the mySAP™ Business Suite family of business solutions is a combination of hardware, software and services that centrally monitors and dynamically allocates computing power, storage and network resources to SAP® solutions based on fluctuations in demand.
Through dynamic pooling and sharing of infrastructure resources, businesses are able to better synchronize IT supply with changing demand on SAP applications to further optimize resource utilization, improve overall manageability and reduce operating costs.
Evolution: Protecting customer investments as they move to industry standards
HP announced HP 9000 server enhancements and new offerings such as in-box upgrades to Intel Itanium 2 processors to simplify customer evolution to HP Integrity servers. Enhancements include new PA-8900 processors to complete the PA-RISC roadmap and deliver enhanced performance and scalability for HP 9000 servers.
The PA-8900 dual-processor module provides up to 15 percent better performance than the PA-8800 processor and is available across the entire HP 9000 server line. To accelerate the migration to Integrity, HP Superdome server customers will now be able to mix and match PA-8900 and Intel Itanium 2 processors in the same system.
HP plans to make HP-UX 11i Virtual Partition (vPars) software available on HP Integrity servers later this year. As part of HP Virtual Server Environment, vPars are designed to allow enterprises to achieve a greater return on their IT investments by optimizing server resource utilization on a real-time basis according to business priorities.
HP also introduced three new thin client models that deliver advanced features at lower prices. The HP Compaq t5125, HP Compaq t5520 and HP Compaq t5525 thin clients provide customers with a choice of essential, mainstream and advanced features to support the varying needs of businesses.
The thin client offerings deliver simple, centralized management based on open, industry standards. Further, they offer businesses reliability in a simple, sleek design and secure environment: IT can easily and quickly lock down data ports and user access from the centralized management console. All three models are available now with prices beginning at $239.(2)
Additionally, HP announced HP Output Manager for OpenView. The software offering delivers increased control over imaging and printing environments, enables customizable event messages with instruction text, and offers management of multiple Output Server domains for enterprise customers.
Largest Expansion of StorageWorks Portfolio in Company History
In the most significant expansion of its storage portfolio in company history, HP unveiled numerous new products and services that address customers’ most pressing storage challenges and extend the company’s share of the global storage market, estimated at more than $63 billion according to IDC.(3)
Announced at the HP Americas StorageWorks Conference, the new and enhanced offerings are the result of investments, innovations and alliances across an HP StorageWorks portfolio designed to help customers put their information to work.
The deep integration across HP’s entire storage portfolio results in streamlined customer IT environments by leveraging HP’s leadership in servers, management software and services – bringing businesses one step closer to becoming Adaptive Enterprises able to synchronize business and IT to capitalize on change.
Highlights of today’s announcement include:
- HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services (EFS) Clustered Gateway – HP is raising the bar on the high-end network-attached storage (NAS) market with an entry at 50 percent or more savings over comparable offerings from NetApp and EMC;
- HP StorageWorks EFS WAN Accelerator – speeds up branch office applications access over the wide-area network (WAN) by up to 100x;
- HP StorageWorks 6000 Virtual Library System – dramatically improves backup and recovery performance;
- HP StorageWorks 4000, 6000 and 8000 Enterprise Virtual Arrays – major enhancement and expansion of EVA family maintains industry’s lowest disk array total cost of ownership;
- HP StorageWorks Enterprise Modular Library E-series – expands HP’s enterprise library family and ideal pairing with EVA;
- Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) services – leverage HP’s deep knowledge of business, technical and industry requirements;
- Fast Recovery Solutions – enables recovery of Microsoft® Exchange databases in minutes instead of hours.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2005, HP revenue totaled $83.3 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.