Due to be generally available in May, Palo Alto, California-based HP’s Control Tower offers deployment and monitoring capabilities for HP BladeSystem server environments and can work alongside the Systems Insight Manager to enable lifecycle-management.
Blade-management had become the core offering of RLX by the time it was acquired by HP in October 2005, with the blade server pioneer having discontinued its own hardware at the end of 2004.
Control Tower promises to enable sub-30 minute server infrastructure installation and configuration, including operating system, database, and monitoring and management services, for both Linux and Windows systems.
HP Control Tower will only support the company’s own p-Class BladeSystem servers in its initial release, and will be priced at $199 per license.
