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26 June 2007 - Issue 205  
   
  HP News
   

Still going on, the 2007 HP Worldwide User Advocacy Survey

Hewlett-Packard (HP) to pump up team in India

HP Interex Software Licensing Webinar very successful

Coffee lounge banter (so it must be true)...

Grindhouse, where old PCs go to die

HP to Acquire SPI Dynamics, Strengthening Capabilities in Application Quality Management

     
  Editorial
   

Dear Ulink Reader

I am bursting to tell you - we had the first Webinar organised by HP Interex about an ongoing topic: Licensing and how to be successful, compliant and save money in licensing. The feedback was very encouraging. If you could not attend but are interested in the presentation hand-outs, email me at Gerhard.Wedenig@lakoon.com.

Still going on is our 2007 Annual Advocacy Survey. Use this opportunity to respond to HP's interest in what their clients want and express how you rate HP. If you go to www.hpadvocacysurvey.org you will pick up the survey there. Please fill it in and let your colleagues and peers know about it. Convince them to participate!

As always, I look forward to your feedback. Until the next Ulink, happy reading!

Gerhard Wedenig
Chairman HP Interex EMEA
     
  Still going on, the 2007 HP Worldwide User Advocacy Survey
   
Dear Members, let your voice be heard! The 2007 HP Worldwide User Advocacy Survey is now available. Complete the survey today at: www.hpadvocacysurvey.org.

Take this opportunity to impact on HP's direction. As a technology expert, you can make a difference and influence change! The 2006 respondent feedback generated many positive outcomes for customers, including HP executive management’s promise to 'make it easier to do business with HP' by reducing terms and conditions for sales contracts.

Visit www.hpadvocacysurvey.org to complete the survey. You only have until June 28th, so log on today and let HP know what you think. Be assured, we will publish the results of your feedback.

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) to pump up team in India
   
PC maker plans to increase staffing in the country by up to 15 percent over the next year "to accommodate the market."

Hewlett-Packard plans to increase its staffing in India by 10 percent to 15 percent over the next year, the company's managing director for India said Wednesday. Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest maker of PCs and printers, currently employs about 29,000 people in India.

"To accommodate the market and to deliver the services which (we are) signing up, we need to add resources," Balu Doraisamy told reporters, adding that HP is also expanding its operations beyond major cities in India. (By Reuters Published: June 13, 2007, 4:59 AM PDT)

  HP Interex Software Licensing Webinar very successful
   
On Wednesday June 13th we performed a very interesting Webinar on the ongoing subject of licensing with the aim of taking the mystery out of licensing in mind. We also looked at ways to save money and clever upgrading. The slides that were presented are available for you. Just send and email to Gerhard.Wedenig@lakoon.com. Look out for the next event, the schedule is as follows:

DateEvent Planned / SubjectLocation
June 13LicensingWebinar
July 11VSE Trial downloads TutorialWebinar
August 15Bristol Lab on SecurityWebinar
October 17-18Open VMS DaysSophia Antipolis & One webinar session out of event
September 25-26Windows DaysSophia Antipolis
October 2-3Lab Days - Porting of ApplicationsBöblingen
October 10Special Host HP ManagementWebinar
November 14Virtual MachinesWebinar
December 4-5Lab on Best PracticesWebinar
December 12To be confirmedWebinar

  Coffee lounge banter (so it must be true....)
   

World first - 30TB benchmark - TPC-H result for HP Integrity servers
Integrity leads in mission-critical, enterprise solutions that scale to support ever-growing databases and business intelligence (BI) applications. HP is the only vendor in the BI market that has been able to show our system capabilities in the 30TB scale factor, which is the largest scale factor that the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) allows for TPC-H benchmark publications.

The benchmark was performed on a Integrity Superdome with

  • 64 Dual Core Itanium,
  • 2 (Montecito) processors (128 cores) on HP-UX 11i v3,
  • Oracle 10g R2 and
  • StorageWorks arrays.
The benchmarks delivered 150,960 QphH at $46.69/QphH. Full details are publicly available at www.tpc.org.

We list some more interesting Integrity benchmark results on TPC-H below:

  • The world's fastest single-system 10TB TPC-H benchmark using HP-UX 11i v3 on a Montecito-based Superdome;
  • Over 58% faster then the previous leadership benchmark on a 144 core Sun E25K;
  • The best performance of any 10TB TPC-H benchmark published using Oracle;
  • The best price/performance of any 10TB TPC-H benchmark;
  • The world's fastest 16c 1 TB TPC-H benchmark using HP-UX 11i v2 running on a Montecito-based rx8640;
  • The world's fastest 1 TB TPC-H benchmark using Windows and SQL Server on a 64 core Montecito-based Superdome (also new today).

Is Intel really extending their roadmap for Itanium even further?
Competition between the chip vendors is really getting tough. Read more.

The secret is out...HP Secure Advantage launch
Secure Advantage is a new security offering to protect data, resources and validate regulatory compliance. It includes HP Integrity server powered HP Compliance Log Warehouse, a general purpose, high-performance appliance that performs high-speed collection and analysis of log data in order to automate compliance reporting for many industry and government standards, including SOX, HIPAA, PCI and FFIEC. Learn the secrets at www.hp.com/go/hpvegasevents2007media.

  Open VMS Community
   

Sue's Favourites

From OpenVMS.org

Did you know that, in addition to English, openvms.org was in three other languages, French, Dutch and Italian? There is also an article with blogs from the boot camp along with attendee quotes.

  • Audio Updates - http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=VPN
    Make sure you give feedback - you make a difference
  • Two Golden Eggs - one of our favourite parts of openvms.org. If you are a new subscriber, Golden Eggs is a configuration library produced voluntarily by Matti Patari, Helsinki Finland. He has done some amazing work including Alpha, Integrity (all sizes) and Prolient, VMS and other OS's. Take a look at http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=GoldenEggs.

From Engineering

HP OpenVMS Announces Support for HP BladeSystems http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/cclass_support.html

Letter from Ann McQuaid http://h71000.www7.hp.com/news/annmcquaid.html

From our Partners

XUIS
The British Library is the UK's national library and is accepted as one of the greatest Libraries in the world. Its collection is in excess of 150 million items increasing annually. Managing this resource presents a huge challenge to the Library's IT facility. Their product of choice is ConsoleWorks. Read how they made their choice in this article: " The British Library read up on ConsoleWorks".

Also from XUIS, most batch job scheduling software is native to only one platform. However XS-EnterpriseSCHEDULE is extending the boundaries of automated job scheduling as the pre-eminent job scheduler for Windows, AIX, OpenVMS, HPUX, Linux, Solaris and Tru64 UNIX. Read more at http://www.xuis.com/products/schedule/

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All English OpenVMS product patches would be required on Japanese OpenVMS.

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Parsec OS IQ Quiz
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Legacy Technologies
LLC the leader in Security Software for the OpenVMS platform, have announced that the most powerful security product available for OpenVMS, SecurityGuard, is now available for Itanium. Security Guard augments the security that is inherent in OpenVMS. The software does not seek to replace security features built into the operating system, but rather adds security to existing areas not protected. It contains three separate security products (AUDIT, INTRUDER ALERT, and KBLOCK) that when combined make up the SecurityGuard product, the most powerful Security tool available for Itanium.

  • Audit enhances native security by providing terminal session logging, audit trail reduction, analysis, and reporting, not otherwise available on OpenVMS systems.
  • Intruder Alert provides real-time intrusion detection and response capabilities, which enable administrators to proactively manage computing environment security.
  • KBLock enhances native OpenVMS Security for VAX/Alpha and Itanium, by providing easily implemented protections to unattended active terminals. Such functionality is not otherwise available in standard OpenVMS environments.

You may have noticed that we have a new name: ProvN. We are committed to providing the same great products and support. Our products have proved to be effective both financially and technically in today's ever demanding enterprise systems. We look forward to continuing to provide ProvN solutions. ProvN provides a wide range of IT solutions for organisations of all sizes using OpenVMS, UNIX, Windows, NT and XP Client-Server computing environments. The long standing stability of these IT solutions and our superior technical services are the hallmark of ProvN's success. ProvN is committed to taking their customers well into the 21st century.
Contact:
Julia Layton
Legacy Technologies
Phone: 801-446-5739
Fax 801-798-8811
JuliaL@Legacy-2000.com
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