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HP Announces New Virtualization Offerings for VMware Environments
15th September, 2008
HP today announced new products, services and solutions to help customers simplify their virtualized environments to realize business benefits from the data center to the desktop.
Announced at VMworld 2008, HP’s new offerings provide support for VMware technologies in four key areas: management software, virtualization services, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and server and storage infrastructures.
“Customers look to HP to implement virtualization projects and strategies that lower operational costs and reduce pressure on data center real estate,” said Mark Linesch, vice president, Infrastructure Software, HP. “As a leading VMware partner, HP is advancing the state of virtualization to help our joint customers drive continued growth, manage operations and reduce enterprise-wide risk.”
Brian Byun, vice president, Global Partners and Solutions, VMware, said, “VMware and HP have a long history of collaboration to help support customers’ data center needs, spanning servers, desktops, storage and services. We are pleased to see the addition of HP products and services optimized for VMware virtualization, further expanding HP’s comprehensive IT portfolio.”
Information faster – zero-impact information backup and instant recovery of VMware
Protecting virtual machines and their application data with frequent backups and minimal impact to the virtual infrastructure has become one of the biggest information management challenges for technology organizations to overcome.
HP Data Protector software simplifies and centralizes automated data protection and recovery operations. This includes increased availability of critical applications with Zero Downtime Backup and Instant Recovery capabilities.
Now available for VMware environments, HP Data Protector Zero Downtime Backup and Instant Recovery tightly integrate with HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays, giving customers zero-impact backup of mission-critical application data residing on virtual machines.
This integration also provides the recovery of both the virtual machine and critical data in seconds or minutes instead of hours.
“We are thrilled with HP Data Protector and VMware solutions to manage our data protection needs,” said Peter Molbæk, IT operations manager, VIA University College, the third-largest educational institution in Denmark. “You cannot ask for a better solution than what HP has provided.”