HP to work with Microsoft

Hewlett Packard has introduced enhancements to its Data Protector software,
which currently supports eight different methods of VMware infrastructure
protection. Jonathan Martin, Worldwide VP and GM- Information Management,
Software and Solutions, HP, said “Most of the virtualization projects today are
deployed on VMware products. The next big vendor in this space is Microsoft and
we are currently in talks with them on how we can partner best to leverage both
our solutions to offer better value to the corporate customers.”

Underlining the huge uptake for virtualization in India, Martin shared that
the country's data center service market is expected to grow to $1.52 billion in
2009. By introducing virtualization products, 22 percent of the servers were
virtualized in 2007 and this was expected to increase to 45 percent in 2008.
“Virtualization will rise dramatically through 2010. More than 1.7 million
servers will shipped for virtualisation activities resulting in 7.9 million
logical servers. This represents 14.6 percent of all physical servers in 2010,”
he noted.

“The new enhancements to HP Data Protector, coupled with HP Software's zero
percent financing option, gives customers a flexible sourcing option to address
their most critical pain areas,” said Avijit Basu, Business Head, Information
Management, HP Software and Solutions India.