In this seven part video series, Ward Ralston, Group Product Manager at Microsoft, answers questions about running Windows Server 2008 R2 on Itanium.
What are some of the mainframe high-availability features that have been built into this new operating environment?
The New South Wales Department of Services, Technology and Administration recently announced a consolidation project involving two separate ERP systems from SAP running in a single environment deployed on Itanium-based servers.
The servers will be maintained separately in order to to provide backup in the event of a major malfunction or disaster. This also makes it easier to do system upgrades, occurring up to three times per year, as they are only required for a single platform.
The SAP ERP system will now run on two HP Integrity rx8460 Itanium servers and an HP StorageWorks XP24000 disk array.
Read the entire article from itnews for Austraian Business here.
In this seven part video series, Ward Ralston, Group Product Manager at Microsoft, answers questions about running Windows Server 2008 R2 on Itanium.
What advantages do Itanium-based solutions offer customers as a platform for deploying applications on Windows Server 2008?
Windows Server 2008 R2, the long awaited, standards-based OS from Alliance Charter Member, Microsoft, is now generally available. R2 provides an opportunity for data centers to increase flexibility, improve performance, reduce costs, and increase scalability. With this latest release, customers can take advantage of mainframe-class reliability, fail-over clustering, as well as massive scalability — up to 64 IA64 sockets on a single server and up to 2 terabytes of RAM. These outstanding RAS features coupled with the inherent features of Itanium, such as EPIC architecture and large cache, provide customers a rock solid platform on which to deploy their highest performance mission-critical applications. Detailed information on Windows Server 2008 R2 is available on Microsoft website.
In addition, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is being released this month. With SQL Server R2, organizations will be able to scale database operations with confidence, improve IT and developer efficiency, and allow users to access highly scalable and well managed BI applications at cost effective prices, especially compared to competitive alternatives. With this release on Itanium, customers can run the largest possible scale-up scenarios on SQL - up to 256 logical processors. For those of you who are running Windows applications on Itanium, please share your feedback on these exciting products from Microsoft.
The Alliance recently received some great coverage for its 2009 Innovation Awards event in San Francisco from Lorraine Bartlett, HP’s Vice President Marketing and Strategy/Operations, Business Critical Systems. On the HP Mission Critical Computing blog, there is a link to some excellent video footage that was shot at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art featuring short interviews with Lorraine and 5 of our 2009 Award Finalists. I think you will find Lorraine’s post and the Awards Video quite interesting and a great testimony to the truly innovative ways that customers are utilizing Itanium-based servers to solve their most challenging, mission-critical business problems. Many thanks to HP for sharing this video.
