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HP Acknowledges Global Mission-critical Computing Innovators

Ioannis Georgopoulos — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:09:54 +0000

Organizations lauded for ground-breaking use of HP and Intel technologies

PALO ALTO -- HP today announced the winners of the 2012 Mission-Critical Innovation Awards, a worldwide competition recognizing organizations that utilize HP and Intel technologies to execute leading-edge mission-critical solutions to address their data-intensive, large-scale applications.

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Tata Consulting Services, FIS-ASP, Gravic, Istituto G. Caporale and Kenya Women Finance Trust Deposit Taking Microfinance were honored for addressing mission-critical computing challenges while attaining new levels of availability, scalability and reliability for complex workloads.

"As mission-critical clients face increased workload demands, they need technologies that seamlessly deliver greater performance and agility," said Lorraine Bartlett, vice president, Worldwide Marketing and Strategy, Business Critical Systems, HP. "These industry-leading firms have successfully deployed solutions with combined technologies from HP and Intel to support massive workloads that enable these organizations to thrive."

An independent panel of judges from leading nonprofit and professional organizations, as well as research institutions including CERN openlab, Enderle Group, Pyalla Technologies and Secure64 Software reviewed the submissions. Criteria considered by the judges included difficulty of the IT challenge, originality of the solution and results achieved.

"These nominations exemplify the level of success that organizations are achieving with HP solutions on both Intel Xeon processor and Itanium processor systems," said Lisa Graf, vice president and general manager, Datacenter and Connected Systems Group Marketing, Intel. "The winners demonstrate what is possible when organizations are determined to drive their mission-critical computing forward with Intel-based HP Solutions."

Enterprises and governments submitted entries in the categories of Mission-Critical Data, Data Center Modernization, Best New Application and Humanitarian/Environmental Impact. This year's winners include:

Mission-Critical Data: Tata Consulting Services (TCS)—India-based provider of IT services, business solutions and outsourcing, improved collaboration among their 240,000 global employees by enhancing scalability, performance and stability for new social networking platforms using HP Integrity servers running Intel® Itanium® 9300-series processors and HP-UX. TCS also used HP ProLiant BL460c servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and virtualized with VMware for additional support of database applications. The new infrastructure offers high availability features and a reliable failover solution for TCS, while also providing the company with a scalable solution that is less complex than competitive offerings.
Data Center Modernization: FIS-ASP—German SAP outsourcing firm leveraged HP CloudSystem Matrix with Cloud Service Automation on HP Integrity, as well as HP Integrity blade servers with Intel Itanium processors and HP-UX 11i v3 with HP 3PAR Storage, to automate installations for SAP customers in one day,⁽¹⁾ which previously took a month. The shortened installation timeframe allows FIS-ASP to now address new markets with smaller SAP installations.
Best New Application: Gravic Inc.—American provider of data collection, transformation and distribution solutions, used HP Integrity NonStop NS1200 servers running Gravic Shadowbase® software to establish a fault-tolerant architecture for a banking customer located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, which experiences frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity. With an active/active data replication solution in place, critical banking applications remain active and reachable even in the event of natural disasters. Gravic's HP and Intel based infrastructure allows the bank to avoid application downtime, both for planned and unplanned outages, as well as dramatically improves failover time.
Humanitarian/Environmental Impact: Istituto Giuseppe Caporale (ICT)—The Italian National Public Health Service, a public health institution, provides scientific and technical support to national and regional governments in animal health and welfare, veterinary public health, and food safety. ICT deployed HP Superdome 2 with HP-UX 11i v3 to analyze more than 1 billion records annually and expand research for effective control and prevention of disease. The agency also deployed the datonix.it web application on HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures with HP Integrity BL860c i2 server blades, and its data repository runs on an HP 6400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) networked with an HP 8/80 SAN switch. ICT's updated infrastructure saw decreased processing time for complex data, from 12 hours to one, allowing for faster reporting of animal disease studies to the Ministry of Health. With a new simplified administration, ICT is saving up to 10 man-hours per month, allowing resources to be redirected to strategic projects to enhance public health services.
Humanitarian/Environmental Impact: Kenya Women Finance Trust Deposit Taking Microfinance Limited (KWFT DTM)—Serving 600,000 clients, of which 80 percent are located in remote rural areas of Kenya, KWFT DTM selected HP Superdome 2 and HP Integrity BL890c i2 servers to create a highly available data center and reduce business processing time from 12 hours to under four hours. KWFT DTM also increased uptime from 82 percent to 99 percent,⁽¹⁾ speeding the loan process to organizations that promote the use of clean energy, including solar lanterns for domestic and commercial purposes, electricity, and the purchase of gas cylinders and use of bio gas. The upgraded infrastructure allows KWFT DTM to concentrate more on growing the business by reducing time spent on fixing system errors and cutting costs incurred in power and maintenance functions.

Additional information about the Mission-Critical Innovation Awards, including details about all of the 2012 finalists, is available at www.hp.com/go/mcia.

HP's premier Europe, Middle East and Africa client event, HP Discover, takes place Dec. 4-6 in Frankfurt, Germany.

⁽¹⁾ Based on internal client data.

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HP Advances Software-Defined Networks with Integrated Infrastructure, Controller and Application Solutions

Melissa Gaillard — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:07:56 +0000

New offerings increase agility through “single control plane” to abstract, program and automate the entire network

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 2, 2012


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HP today announced the industry’s first open-standards-based software-defined network (SDN) technologies to span infrastructure, control software and application layers with a “single control plane” that enables enterprises and cloud providers to simplify and maximize agility across data center, campus and branch networks.⁽¹⁾

“To solve the challenges created by legacy networks, organizations need the ability to automate the network from end to end by leveraging SDN to abstract the control plane from the physical infrastructure,” said Joe Skorupa, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner. “For maximum performance, utilization and simplicity, customers must ensure that there is a suite of SDN technologies across the entire network—from the hardware infrastructure to the control plane to the applications, and also from the data center to the desktop—in order to move beyond today’s complexities and improve business agility across the enterprise.”

As companies move to cloud and other computing environments, manual configuration of networks through command-line interface (CLI) coding has proven to be error prone, as well as time and resource intensive. SDN overlay-point products offer a centralized control plane, but fall short by not enabling automated configuration of network infrastructure or providing SDN applications to roll out new services for campus and branch networks. This incomplete approach creates complexity and unnecessary manual coding requirements.

The new HP technologies announced today cover all layers by including an SDN controller, and SDN applications, services and solutions that further strengthen HP’s Virtual Application Networks strategy. As a result, clients can achieve the full potential of SDN technologies through the abstraction, programming and automation of their network to improve scalability and agility, while simplifying the deployment of applications and services.

“In the cloud era, clients need a single point of control for the entire network, which enables them to deploy any application or service directly to the user within minutes,” said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president and general manager, Networking, HP. “Only HP provides clients with a complete software-defined network solution that automates manual configuration tasks across hardware, software and applications and from data center to desktop through a single control plane.”

Industry’s first complete SDN solution to increase network agility

HP is the first to offer SDN technologies for all three critical layers—infrastructure, control software and application—to simplify networks and improve agility across the enterprise. These layers create a complete, open SDN hardware and software solution that provides a single point of control for the entire network.

The infrastructure layer delivers open programmable access through OpenFlow, a networking protocol that automates hardware configurations.

New SDN functionality in the infrastructure layer enables clients to simplify network configuration. HP today announced nine additional switch models providing OpenFlow-enabled support for HP FlexNetwork architecture, offering clients a flexible and programmable standards-based interface. The addition of the new HP 3800 switch series to the 16 existing models in the product portfolio reaffirms HP as the only major networking vendor with more than 15 million installed OpenFlow-enabled ports.(1)

The control-software layer creates a centralized view of the network.

Within the control layer, the new HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller abstracts the physical hardware from the logical deployment, providing a centralized view and automating network configuration of all devices in the infrastructure. By eliminating thousands of manual CLI entries, the controller enables network administrators to easily and flexibly program and scale their network environment for single-touch automated applications. It also provides application program interfaces (APIs) to third-party developers to integrate custom enterprise applications.

“We recognized the need to scale our perimeter firewall capacity to cope with the increase of internet traffic,” said Jean-Michel Jouanigot, communication systems group leader, IT Department, CERN. “In the framework of the CERN openlab R&D collaboration, we are developing with HP’s software defined network technologies a load-balancing application for the Virtual Application Networks SDN controller to distribute network traffic across multiple devices including firewalls and servers, increasing simplicity while reducing cost and bandwidth bottlenecks.”

The application layer delivers open programmable interfaces to automate applications across the network.

New HP Virtual Cloud Networks software enables cloud providers to deliver automated and scalable public cloud services to enterprises. Using this software, enterprises can create an isolated virtual cloud network environment through a self-service public cloud infrastructure, providing them complete control for introducing new services and applications to their users.
Also at the application layer, the new HP Sentinel Security software application automates network access control and intrusion prevention security for enterprise campus networks with existing OpenFlow-enabled switch hardware through HP’s controller. As a result, clients can eliminate the complexity and expense of dedicated networking hardware appliances, while achieving scalable security needed for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives.

“With the growing demand for digital creation and distribution of our content, we recognized the need to enable scalable security across HBO’s entire network infrastructure without investing in additional equipment,” said Walter Kerner, vice president, Network Services and IT Security, HBO. “To do so, we began working closely with HP on their breakthrough software-defined network-based Sentinel Security application, which delivers security across our existing hardware infrastructure and gives us a better view of security inside the network instead of just at the edge, while improving business agility with simple network automation.”

Industry’s first SDN services portfolio focused on people, process and technology

New offerings from HP Technology Services guide clients through SDN roadmap development, architecture creation, governance preparedness and proof of concept. These include services to design, deliver and implement on the promise of HP Virtual Application Networks. New SDN services include:

HP Transformation Experience Workshop provides insight into SDN transformation benefits and IT implications from the perspective of people, process and technology.
HP Network Provisioning Baseline Assessment Service assesses the current network resource provisioning time required to deploy applications.
HP SDN Proof of Concept Service assesses and reports provisioning time improvements achieved with HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) and HP Virtual Application Networks technologies.

HP at Interop New York 2012

HP is demonstrating new software solutions for HP Virtual Application Networks, as well as products in the FlexNetwork architecture and services, at Interop New York 2012 October 1-5, at the Javits Center in booth 407.

Bethany Mayer, senior vice president and general manager, Networking, HP, will deliver a keynote address at 9 a.m. ET, on Thursday, Oct. 4, at the Javits Center, Special Events Hall, First floor. The live webcast will be available at http://interop.com/live.

Pricing and availability

HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller is expected to be available worldwide by the second half of 2013.
HP Virtual Cloud Networks Application is expected to be available worldwide by the second half of 2013.
HP Sentinel Security Application is currently available as an early access program to select customers.
OpenFlow support is currently available on HP Networking switches as a software upgrade.
HP SDN services will be available worldwide early 2013. Pricing varies according to location and implementation.

HP’s premier Europe, Middle East and Africa client event, HP Discover, takes place Dec. 4-6 in Frankfurt, Germany.

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⁽¹⁾ Based on HP internal comparative analysis of publicly available data from major competitors.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations; any statements concerning expected development, performance, market share or competitive performance relating to products and services; any statements regarding anticipated operational and financial results; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include macroeconomic and geopolitical trends and events; the competitive pressures faced by HP’s businesses; the development and transition of new products and services (and the enhancement of existing products and services) to meet customer needs and respond to emerging technological trends; the execution and performance of contracts by HP and its customers, suppliers and partners; the protection of HP's intellectual property assets, including intellectual property licensed from third parties; integration and other risks associated with business combination and investment transactions; the hiring and retention of key employees; assumptions related to pension and other post-retirement costs and retirement programs; the execution, timing and results of restructuring plans, including estimates and assumptions related to the cost and the anticipated benefits of implementing those plans; expectations and assumptions relating to the execution and timing of cost reduction programs and restructuring and integration plans; the resolution of pending investigations, claims and disputes; and other risks that are described in HP’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2012 and HP’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including HP’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2011. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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