New virtualization offerings

HP has expanded its portfolio of virtualization offerings with new technologies and services.

This holistic approach to virtualization creates an environment where information technology resources are pooled and shared so utilization is optimized and supply automatically meets demand.

The offerings build on the HP Adaptive Enterprise strategy to synchronize business and IT to capitalize on change. Virtualization enables customers to simultaneously drive down IT costs while increasing business agility, that is, their ability to respond rapidly to changes in market conditions or customer demands.

Customers Volkswagen Credit and US Steel, for example, are already recognizing the benefits of using HP's virtual desktop solution.

HP's new virtualization offerings include a solution that bridges the gap between traditional desktop computing and server-based computing models, giving customers the ability to virtualize their corporate desktop systems.

The HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure solution is significantly easier to maintain and delivers a much lower total cost of ownership than traditional PCs - with an average cost saving of $1,200 per user per year, and up to 50 percent total savings over a four-year lifecycle.

To deliver greater business value to enterprises, HP is increasing its focus on virtualization technologies, services and partnerships, including work with BEA Systems and Oracle.

HP is enabling companies to dynamically grow and shrink server resources to meet service-level objectives by optimizing its Virtual Server Environment solution for BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and Oracle9i Database.

More detailed information on HP's virtualization offerings is available at www.hp.com/go/virtualization/presskit.

According to a recent report by Gartner, by 2008, enterprises that do not leverage virtualization technologies will spend 25 percent more annually for hardware, software, labor and space for Intel servers and 15 percent more on the same for RISC servers.

"For years, customers have operated with siloed infrastructures that are over-provisioned, inflexible and expensive," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president, HP Adaptive nterprise.

"As demand increases for virtualization solutions, we expect data center utilization rates to double and the market for virtualization software to reach $3 billion by 2006."