HP extends BladeSystem solution builder program

BENGALURU, INDIA: HP announced an extension of its BladeSystem solution builder program, to enable additional independent software vendors (ISVs) build solutions, that customers can quickly deploy and easily manage in a converged infrastructure.

The HP converged infrastructure portfolio now includes new solutions capabilities developed with leading software vendors. New application infrastructure templates for HP BladeSystem Matrix (Matrix) represent best practice implementation and enable fast provisioning of complex infrastructures in minutes instead of months.

“Customers today are grappling with silos of infrastructure and are looking to simplify their data centers, as well as maximize the value of their technology investments,” said Santanu Ghose, Country Head—Infrastructure Software and Blades, HP India. “With solutions such as HP BladeSystem Matrix, customers can align business initiatives with technology, creating a business-ready infrastructure that automatically adapts as market and business conditions change.”

“HP and VMware have an impressive record of developing solutions together to deliver converged infrastructure to customers—including combining physical and virtual management in VMware vCenter Server, certifying converged network solutions with HP Virtual Connect and VMware vSphere™, and building flexible scalability and automatic high availability into every joint offering. VMware is pleased to participate in the BladeSystem Solution Builder Program to simplify implementation of converged infrastructure for customers as they continue their journey to the private cloud,” said Dr Stephen Herrod, CTO and Sr VP, R&D, VMware.

Simplifying application deployments with new Matrix templates:

New Matrix ISV templates let customers provision complete and appropriately sized application infrastructures for specific business applications. The templates provide infrastructure pre-designs of servers, network and storage resources that represent best practice implementations. This allows for fast expansion of infrastructure resources to respond to business changes.

Matrix templates are available today on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as well as Oracle Database 11g, Oracle real application clusters, Oracle’s PeopleSoft, and SAP NetWeaver. More Matrix templates are planned to be available in early 2010 to cover applications from Citrix, F5, McAfee, MicroStrategy, Novell, Red Hat, SAS, Siemens PLM Software, Inc, SunGard, TIBCO Software Inc and VMware.

HP is working with virtualization vendors to integrate technologies such as Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, VMware vSphere 4 and VMware vCenter server and Red Hat enterprise virtualization, making it easier for customers to purchase and implement these solutions with Matrix.

HP is including Matrix in its Partner Technology Access Centers (PTAC) as well as developing new integration testing services to help HP ISV partners integrate, test and optimize their unique capabilities for a converged infrastructure.