HP extends the value of converged infrastructure solutions

HP announced an extension of its BladeSystem solution builder program.

HP announced an extension of its BladeSystem solution builder program to enable additional independent software vendors (ISVs) to 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.

Matrix templates are available on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007,Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007,Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as well as Oracle Database 11g,Oracle Real Application Clusters,Oracles 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.