HP introduces life cycle tools
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InfoWorld - Hoping to suck out costs associated with production and maintenance over an application's life cycle, Hewlett-Packard on Monday strengthened its OpenView software portfolio with a raft of products and programs designed to bridge the gap between application development and users&#8217; IT operations.
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(InfoWorld) - OracleÂ unveiled a new management tool on Monday that will help its database users determine when to move, archive, and delete data. Oracle has been developing Information Lifecycle Management Assistant, a GUI tool based on ILM best practices described by its customers, for more than a year, according to Lilian Hobbs, senior principal product manager for ILM Assistant at Oracle. While users are spoiled for choice when it comes to archiving tools, she said customers have been looking for software to help them manage their data over the course of its lifetime. As users' databases treble in size every two years or so, finding ways to lower the cost of storing all that data is becoming more critical, added Willie Hardie, vice president of database product marketing at Oracle. Using ILM Assistant, an Oracle customer can create lifecycle definitions that are then assigned to tables in their database. The tool uses the customer's lifecycle policy to advise on how best to handle data as well as provide input on data storage requirements and how to realize cost savings in storage. For instance, Hardie said that as data ages and is less frequently accessed and updated, the information no longer needs to be stored on the fastest, most expensive storage devices and can be moved over to low-cost alternatives. Looking ahead, Oracle plans to provide tighter integration between ILM Assistant and specific types of storage devices, Hobbs said. Already, based on customer feedback, the vendor has provided a white paper on how best to use the Oracle tool with Network Appliance's SnapLock disk-based data retention software. Oracle is also looking to add more automation to ILM Assistant. "The first release is a passive tool," Hobbs said. "It gives you the scripts, and you have to go and implement them." The tool is currently very much date-driven in terms of its classification of data, but Oracle plans to offer a nondate type of classification in the future, she added, for instance, classifying data by its status as active or non-active. Currently, in order to use ILM Assistant, users must install the Oracle's free Application Express Web application development tool as well. Oracle looks to remove that restriction in future, Hobbs said. ILM Assistant works with Oracle Database 9i or more recent Database 10g releases. The tool is free to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition users and can be downloaded here.
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New releases of disk, tape and optical storage technologies, and enhanced information management software from HP will extend the company&#39;s ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) portfolio.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard is developing new storage hardware that will make it easier for administrators to assign the right amount of storage to different departments in an organization. HP on Monday announced plans for new models in its midrange EVA series of disk storage arrays at the HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas. The EVA 4100, 6100, and 8100, due later this year, feature what HP calls Dynamic Capacity Management. Typically, when a company buys new storage capacity, it apportions it to different programs or different business functions in the organization. It can lead to the false impression that the company has used up all its storage capacity. Dynamic Capacity Management (DCM), HP said, allows the storage manager of a company to assign capacity to various departments or functions as needed and allows the system to reduce capacity assigned to departments if they're not using it up at the rate they thought they would. This saves companies the cost of buying more storage capacity they may not need, said Mark Gonzalez, vice president of enterprise server and storage sales at HP. "Perhaps you don't have to buy as much storage as you had to before and because of that, you use less power, use less cooling and can delay your purchases," Gonzalez said. "What's the most expensive storage that you'll buy? The storage that you have to buy today." Gonzalez said the EVAs may carry a list price somewhere in the range of $35,000 to $40,000. HP offers DCM, what it also calls thin provisioning, in the high-end XP line of disk storage arrays it introduced in May. The availability of it on the EVA line will coincide with the launch of Microsoft's new Windows Server 2008 operating system, which is due out later this year. Besides assigning storage capacity more in line with actual use, the EVAs will utilize a Windows feature that can reduce the size of storage capacity already assigned and reassign it to another purpose. But storage provisioning is as much a problem of office politics as it is technology, said Andrew Reichman, a storage industry analyst with Forrester Research Inc. Software application administrators at companies ask for as much storage as they can get because it's difficult to add more space later. But storage administrators want to preserve storage capacity so they don't have to buy more storage capacity unnecessarily. In the back and forth of office politics, Reichman said, the software administrators tend to win these battles. But with DCM, which he thinks is more accurately called "adaptive provisioning," assigning and adjusting capacity is easier and better assures applications will get the storage they need but not more than they need, he said. "Adaptive provisioning is good for environments where you have good communications. Where the server admins and the applications admins say 'I agree to take less and will trust you to grow it for me as time goes so we use less resources,'" Reichman said. "In my experience those environments are few and far between." HP also announced it's introducing a new tape drive for data storage and its first tape storage device in a blade form factor.
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Company helps dust off and release an old HP Labs optical character recognition engine.
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HP today announced enhancements to its identity and access management software suite to help customers increase agility, reduce risk and cut costs in the area of security and compliance management.
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Hewlett-Packard has launched the FOSSology Project, a tool for tracking and monitoring the use of free and open-source software within an IT environment.The project stems from governance work done in-house at HP, according to the Web site set up for the project.&quot;We needed a tool that would quickly and accurately describe how a given open-source project was licensed,&quot; a statement on the site reads. &quot;Rather than simply collecting a project&#39;s advertised license (as given at their website or in their documentation), this tool needed to analyze all of the source code for a given project and intelligently report all of the licenses being used based on the license declarations and tell-tale phrases that identify software licensing.&quot;FOSSology is available under the terms of the GPL (GNU General Public License) version 2 and currently has support on most GNU/Linux platforms, according to the site.It is not clear from the site how HP plans to make money through the initiative. A company spokeswoman declined comment and said Friday that more details will be announced next week.Companies like Black Duck Software are already in the FOSS-tracking business.HP&#39;s entry brought a warm welcome from Black Duck CEO Doug Levin. Levin may feel HP&#39;s involvement will help the market expand overall. &quot;We can now officially welcome HP to our market,&quot; Levin wrote on his blog . &quot;FOSSology is a nice tool for developers. It will result in software developers being better informed about their use of GPL. That makes it a very worthy tool.&quot;Right now, the FOSSology project has modules for license analysis, MIME type identification and for extracting metadata, according to the site.The site said the tool already generates detailed results: &quot;More than simply reporting, &#39;Package X uses license Y,&#39; the FOSSology tool attempts to analyze every file within the package to determine its license. The license report is thus an aggregate of all of the different licenses found to be in use by a package.&quot;FOSSology&#39;s analyses aren&#39;t foolproof, however, a statement on the site concedes: &quot;In general, the analysis results are very good guesses but should not be considered authoritative. (Or to say it simply: We&#39;re not lawyers. The code tries its best, but leave the legal decisions up to your own attorneys.)&quot;Over time, FOSSology is meant to be far more than an open-source license tracker, according to the site. Future capabilities could address bug fixes and patches, security alerts, and code reuse, as well as analysis of all types of software.The effort prompted praise on Friday from Michael Cote, an analyst with Redmonk. &quot;It&#39;s free and open source, which is nice,&quot; Cote said. &quot;So if the data is reliable and well-fed, it could be of help for people who don&#39;t want to work with Black Duck ... and others who have commercial ways to scan for open-source licenses.&quot;&quot;The interesting thing will be to see how open the resulting data is and how much reporting people do with it,&quot; he added. &quot;There&#39;s a sort of cloudy idea of how much open source is used in the enterprise, and having more accurate, free numbers would be great for the community, and more importantly, enterprises that want to get a feel for how widely used open source software is.&quot;The availability of free open-source usage data &quot;will help people make much better -- and affordable -- decisions about what open source to use and not use,&quot; Cote said.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to deliver by the end of the year a new vulnerability service designed to help companies proactively detect and fix flaws that could be used in a malicious attacks.
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HP, at its Technology Forum in Las Vegas, said it is developing storage technology that more accurately assigns storage capacity as needed in an enterprise.
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Borland Software Monday previewed updates to its Borland StarTeam and CaliberRM tools as part of a new vision for more closely tying the application development lifecycle to business processes.
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Microsoft has released software that combs through PCs and reports back on the Office files installed on the systems, completing a free tool kit designed to aid corporate users in migrating to Office 2007.
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At its annual HP World user conference in Chicago this week, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) will announce a number of enhancements to its HP-UX operating system, designed to narrow the gap between the capabilities of the company's Integrity and HP 9000 servers.
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Hewlett-Packard has joined with Brocade to integrate Brocade&#39;s storage area network switching technology into HP Bladesystem servers to reduce the amount of fabric infrastructure needed in a datacentre.
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Securing the Itanic HP this week moved to bulk up the security tools available with its HP-UX operating system.â¦
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Hewlett-Packard Co has added to its HP-UX 11i v2 operating environment by extending data protection for its HP Integrity servers.
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Hewlett-Packard Co., aiming to beef up its erratic enterprise computing business with new products, said Monday it is launching new high-end and mid-range server-computers and related software and services early this week.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) expects fiscal 2008 to be another solid financial year as the company continues to fine-tune its cost structure in an attempt to become more operationally efficient. HP Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Bob Wayman, one day after announcing he will retire on Jan. 1, outlined the company's expectations for fiscal year 2008, projecting revenue between US$100.9 billion and $102.8 billion. The figures represent year-over-year growth of 4 percent to 6 percent and are in line with what analysts expected. The projections are also similar to the company's performance in fiscal 2006, when revenue of $91.7 billion represented 6 percent growth over previous-year revenue of $86.7 billion. HP already has set guidance for fiscal 2007, which began on Nov. 1, at $97 billion in revenue, or GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) earnings per share of $2.28 to $2.33. Wayman set 2008 financial projections as part of a meeting with securities analysts in New York on Tuesday, where he and other HP executives laid out the company's goals for the next couple of years. Breaking it down by business segment, HP also expects growth in its Personal Systems Group, Imaging and Printing Group, Enterprise Storage and Servers and HP Services divisions to be between 4 percent to 6 percent in 2008. However, growth should be higher in both its Software and HP Financial Services segments, the company said. HP expects its software business, recently buoyed by its acquisition of Mercury Interactive Corp., to have 10 percent to 15 percent growth in fiscal 2007, while its financial services business will grow 6 percent to 8 percent. Speaking at Tuesday's event, HP Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd said the company is a work in progress as it strives to achieve goals he laid out when he joined the company in late March 2005. To streamline the business, HP began a massive restructuring last year that resulted in 10 percent of its workforce being cut. Hurd implied Tuesday there would beÂ more slicing and dicing throughout HP to create a leaner business. As a result, operating margins should gradually improve over the next couple of years. In 2006 operating margins were 8 percent; in fiscal 2008 the company is projecting that will climb to between 9 percent to 9.5 percent, it said Tuesday. "We're committed to taking care of our business and our cost issues," Hurd told analysts. Â