HP has launched a project that will unify UNIX and x86 server architectures to bring industry-leading availability, increased performance and uncompromising client choice to a single platform.

Using advanced technology across a common modular HP BladeSystem architecture, HP is developing platforms to enable clients to choose the best environment aligned to their organizations’ needs without compromise, helping ensure investment protection for the long term.

HP’s new development roadmap “Odyssey” includes ongoing innovations to HP Integrity servers, HP NonStop solutions and the HP-UX and OpenVMS operating systems.

The roadmap also includes delivering blades with Intel Xeon processors for the HP Superdome 2 enclosure (code name “DragonHawk”) and the scalable c-Class blade enclosures (code named “HydraLynx”), while fortifying Windows and Linux environments with innovations from HP-UX within the next two years.

With the availability of DragonHawk, clients will be able to run mission-critical workloads on HP-UX on Intel Itanium-based blades while simultaneously running workloads on Microsoft Windows or Linux on Intel Xeon-based blades in the same Superdome 2 enclosure.

“Clients have been asking us to expand the mission-critical experience that is delivered today with HP-UX on Integrity to an x86-based infrastructure,” said Alaa Al Shimy, Enterprise Storage, Servers and Networking Director, HP Middle East.

“HP plans to transform the server landscape for mission-critical computing by using the flexibility of HP BladeSystem and bringing key HP technology innovations from Integrity and HP-UX to the x86 ecosystem. Unlike the competition, HP offers an open, integrated, single platform approach.”

For more than 25 years, HP has powered the most demanding workloads by building a robust and proven franchise of technology and service innovations for mission-critical computing.

Rebecca Prudhomme, vice president, Product and Solutions Marketing, Amdocs, said: “Amdocs’ experience in implementing HP-UX/Integrity as a mission-critical platform for our market-leading BSS/OSS solutions at top global service providers has proven extremely positive.”

“Extending HP Converged Infrastructure features to Linux on x86 will allow customers using the Superdome 2 architecture to benefit from the cost-effectiveness of x86, while leveraging the platform’s strength, scalability and availability.”

“By continuing to extend the mission-critical capabilities of the Itanium environment while fortifying the mission-critical ecosystem for x86, HP and Intel are providing greater flexibility and choice – putting the customer back in the driver’s seat for their future mission-critical needs,” said Kirk Skaugen, general manager, Data Center Group, Intel.

“Customers trust Microsoft and HP with their enterprise computing needs,” said Eduardo Rosini, corporate vice president, SQL Server Marketing, Microsoft.

“By furthering our partnership, Microsoft and HP will bring together the world’s leading server and software solutions to let customers harness the flexibility and scalability of Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server on HP Converged Infrastructure for their broad mission-critical computing needs of tomorrow,” he added. – TradeArabia News Service