Cloud Computing: HP Enhances HP-UX, Rolls Out New NonStop Servers
April 28, 2014
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.
Hewlett-Packard officials are introducing enhancements to the company’s HP-UX operating system and new Itanium-based NonStop servers aimed at midrange enterprises, part of the giant tech vendor’s larger Project Odyssey effort. HP also on April 28 is unveiling enhancements to its Integrity-based CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX, a converged offering designed for private clouds and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments that run mission-critical workloads.
The same trends—from cloud computing to big data to greater mobility—that are driving the growing demands for better energy efficiency, smaller footprints and lower costs also being felt by large organizations that run mission-critical workloads on systems like HP’s Integrity and NonStop servers, which are powered by Intel’s Itanium processors, according to HP officials…
Despite the continued decline in the global Unix server space, company executives see a strong role for their high-end systems in the changing server landscape, where the ability to handle the rapidly growing amount of data that’s being generated and to be always-on are key…
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