HP has upgraded its Converged Cloud portfolio with new applications that extend the power of the cloud across infrastructure, applications and information.
The new applications are designed to deliver converged cloud services for the airline industry, build hybrid cloud environments, manage the next generation of cloud applications, increase office productivity with cloud print application and close the IT cloud expertise skills gap.
The company has introduced HP Converged Cloud Services for Airlines, a new set of hybrid cloud applications that enable airlines to introduce new products and services to enhance revenue.
It includes HP Passenger Service Solution, which combines HP’s core travel and transportation industry applications into a single integrated airline reservation and travel SaaS platform.
The new HP Airline Service Oriented Architecture Platform provides airlines with a modern application-development platform-as-a-service to drive rapid development of revenue-generating airline products.
The company has also introduced HP Enterprise Cloud Services, an IaaS platform that is delivered from secure, energy efficient data centres equipped with HP Converged Infrastructure technology.
Using HP’s enterprise-grade cloud computing offering on a per-server basis, airlines are able to scale quickly to meet the needs of the business, reducing capital and operational expenses.
HP has extended the capabilities of HP CloudSystem to deliver instant access to additional capacity through HP Cloud Services, Amazon Web Services and Savvis.
It also includes HP CloudSystem that provides an open platform for enabling enterprises and service providers to build and manage services across private, managed and public cloud environments.
HP CloudSystem Matrix software has been upgraded, which enables organisations to reduce cloud deployments from weeks to one day when building a complete IaaS implementation for virtualised environments.
A new version of HP Cloud Service Automation extends HP’s unified application for brokering and managing application and infrastructure services on HP CloudSystem-based solutions or third-party environments in an effort to build hybrid cloud environments.
The company has also introduced new versions of HP CloudSystem Service Provider, new members of the HP CloudAgile Service Provider program to deliver cloud services to their business.
New HP Cloud Planning Services help clients determine their hybrid delivery options and speed up the planning and analysis phases of cloud deployments.
HP Datacenter Care offers clients customised support relationship through a single point of contact to deploy, help operate and evolve client data centres as they move from traditional data centres to a converged cloud.
HP Application Performance Management 9.2 for Converged Cloud helps clients manage across converged cloud environments, improving the performance management of cloud and mobile applications.
The updated versions of HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and HP Performance Center (PC) enable organisations break down IT silos so they can deliver enhanced applications for hybrid and cloud environments.
HP has upgraded its ePrint Enterprise 2.0 to offer integration with three additional pull-printing applications, localisation in 10 languages and visitor printing capabilities.
