HP-UX 11i v3 way ahead for biz tech

BANGALORE, INDIA: HP India recently organised a session on "The evolution and way forward with HP-UX", highlighting.its knowledge forum around 'Business Technology with HP'. It also briefed upon the roadmap and evolution of HP-UX 11i v3.

Santanu Ghose, country manager, business critical systems & nonstop, HP India, said: "Consolidation is the word of the day. So is the availability of a product and the utility pricing. Today, technology plays a fundamentally different role in business. It drives more than 90 percent of all business processes, such as booking an order, selling an airline ticket or closing the books at the end of the month. It's this integration of business and technology that provides the opportunity for technology organizations to drive business for the company."

"India is the world leader in banking sector and way ahead of china. But today security factor has become a critical issue. As per surveys, 40 percent of security breaches are internally programmed. So, a company faces major risks within the company. HP UX 11i v3 preserves data integrity, eliminates management complexity and increases efficiency. Moreover, we also have disaster tolerance and recovery tools in hand for any situation. Thus mitigating risks involved, " Ghose added.

Jyotinath Ganguly, principle solutions architect for business critical systems & NED, HP India, added: "Customers expect a zero downtime from us. Today, the business environment has turned virtual. HP-UX 11i v3 has the capacity to run multiple functions in a single environment. HP UNIX ensures continuous operations at any distance. We follow a pay per use mode."

Highlights of HP-UX 11i v3:

Flexible capacity

* Flexibility with mission critical virtualization,

* Dynamic memory migration with HP virtual partitions and HP integrity virtual machines,

* Capacity for the most demanding workloads,

* 20-35 percent performance increase,

* Simplified storage management and increased capacity with next generation storage stack.

Simplified management

* Centralized expert control,

* HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 for single-console manageability,

* Enhanced system management homepage for intuitive control,

* Automated online patch & upgrade management.

Secured availability

* Affordable datacentre-class availability,

* Hot swappable memory & processors for reduced downtime,

* Online patching with Dynamic Root Disk,

* Protect 'data at rest' with encrypted volume and filesystems.