Prognosis for HP BladeSystem servers now generally available
25 Sep 2008
Prognosis performance management and monitoring solutions are now available to support new HP BladeSystem servers, enabling enterprise customers upgrading to this new technology to continue benefitting from the availability and performance advantages that Prognosis provides.
Prognosis Product Manager Ben Berger said that providing immediate support for Blades to all Prognosis 9.1 customers highlights the commitment from Integrated Research to providing ongoing support of new technologies in the HP NonStop market.
“With this release, Prognosis ensures that customers migrating to this new platform can do so with the confidence that their ability to monitor and manage availability and performance will not be compromised,” said Mr Berger.
“Some of our customers handle transactions valued at trillions of dollars a day, so these HP NonStop blade servers will be deployed into the most business critical and complex IT environments. These companies simply cannot tolerate downtime or reduction in server performance.”
This release of Blades support follows the completion of a successful beta program with a number of key customers, including many world-leading financial exchanges in the US and Asia.
Mr Charles Tang of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange – a participant in the Prognosis Beta program – said that they have been long time users of Prognosis to monitor the performance and availability of their critical applications.
“Knowing that we can continue to rely on Prognosis from day one if we decide to migrate to the new blade servers is a great comfort,” Mr Tang said.
The new HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem supports high transaction volumes with all the advantages of the NonStop platform. These new systems now offer twice the performance of existing NonStop server offerings at half the footprint, delivering the lowest total cost of ownership of any server in its class.
Prognosis is the management and monitoring solution of choice for many of the world’s largest companies in over 50 countries.