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V. Rishi Kumar

Singapore, Sept. 5 Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced a clutch of products, services and solutions aimed at helping enterprises simplify and better manage their IT infrastructure. The products launched span not just servers but include thin clients and HP support and solutions offerings.

At an event “Rethink Virtualisation in Business Terms”, the Vice President, Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP Asia Pacific and Japan, Mr Tony Parkinson, said virtualisation is a powerful step in transforming IT.

HP’s new offerings support business needs that span the desktop to the data centre and are focused on lowering operational cost and freeing up resources for other business requirements.”

At a tour sponsored by HP, the company executives outlined how various products and services of HP have been customised to meet the requirements of business needs where IT has become a key differentiator in being competitive.

Citing recent research findings, HP revealed that 86 per cent of technology decision makers have implemented virtualisation projects.

The same study noted that a vast majority of respondents expect to have virtualised just 25 per cent of their technology assets by 2010.

Presenting an analyst view point, the Group Vice-President, Computing Systems Group, IDC, Mr Avneesh Saxena, said the focus on optimisation of IT investments, reduction in costs, business expansion, and focus on energy conservation are among key drivers for investments in virtualisation.

Illustrating the impact of virtualisation, Mr Saxena said Atos Origin has brought down the cost of managing data centres wherein more than 200 racks were replaced by 10, thereby saving on space and power consumption.

The Head of Marketing, HP Software, Asia Pacific and Japan, Mr Darryl Dickens, explained how Maruti Suzuki managed to simplify and consolidate its three data centres into one by using virtualisation. Companies in the financial services, retail, oil and gas, manufacturing and even Government departments, have enhanced the adoption of virtualisation, Mr Dickens said.

Given the tough market conditions, the time is just right to adapt to Software as a Service model (SaaS) wherein HP could both host and offer software resources on demand. This could be then transferred to the customer when required, Mr Dickens said.

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