HP has announced 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, which enables clients to drive business growth by quickly deploying innovative IT services on a massive scale with HP Operations Orchestration (OO) 10, which automates the execution of up to 15,000 simultaneous operations,lower IT costs by efficiently delivering computing capacity with HP Server Automation (SA) 10, which automates server life cycle management to increase utilization, while reducing manual administration.
It also results in increasing employee efficiency with HP Database and Middleware Automation (DMA) 10, which automates manual database management tasks.
“Our IT employees were bogged down being enterprise ‘fire fighters’ instead of proactive business partners,” said Andy Smith, vice president, Application Hosting Services, McKesson. “HP cloud and automation software enabled us to improve our IT operations by automating routine, repetitive tasks prone to human error, encouraging our employees to focus on innovative IT services. As a result, we can now deliver both IaaS and PaaS in under an hour, and we reduced IT service outages by 78 percent, the occurrence of critical IT incidents by 65 percent and have been able to deploy 40 percent more IT systems.”
HP 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%.
HP OO 10, HP SA 10, HP DMA 10 and HP Cloud Service Automation 3.2 will be available individually worldwide directly from HP or through its ecosystem of worldwide channel partners.
HP OO 10 is priced per orchestrated node. HP SA 10 and HP DMA 10 are priced per operating system instance. HP Cloud Service Automation 3.2 is priced per operating system instance and available as one package of 10 instances that includes HP SA and HP OO licenses.
