Converged UNIX and x86 HP announces Odyssey Plan

HP announces a New Odyssey plan and provides a roadmap to unify UNIX and x86 server architectures into one platform.

Hewlett-Packard said in a news release that institutions needed the availability and resilience of UNIX platforms and the familiarity and integration costs of industry-standard platforms.

HP's new roadmap includes ongoing technological innovations for HP integrity servers, HP nonstop systems, and HP-UX and OpenVMS operating systems.

The roadmap also includes a blade server that configures the Intel Xeon processor for the HP Superdome 2 chassis (code-named Dragonhawk) and the scalable C-class Blade chassis (code hydralynx). In the next two years, use HP-UX innovative technology to consolidate Windows and Linux environments.

HP said that after the Dragonhawk listing, customers will be able to operate on the Intel Itanium processor blades on the HP-UX operating system on the important task workload, while in the same Superdome 2 chassis based on the Xeon processor blade server Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Microsoft Windows operating system to run the workload.

Martin Fink, Hewlett-Packard's senior vice president and general manager of enterprise-critical systems, said that customers have been demanding that we extend the experience of the HP-UX operating system on integrity servers to a x86 based infrastructure. HP plans to bring the key HP technology innovations integrity and HP-UX through to the x86 ecosystem by leveraging HP's BladeSystem flexibility to transform the server environment for mission-critical computing. Unlike rivals, HP offers an open, integrated, single platform approach.

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