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For those who work with Itanium-based NonStop servers, this upcoming event is not to missed. The NonStop group within HP continues to push the bounds of what’s possible in mission-critical computing and in achieving unmatched levels of server availability.

From September 26 - 29, the best and brightest minds min the NonStop Community will convene in San Jose. The event will feature of 75 technically focused sessions, Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings, a Connect Lounge, Expo Hall and more. This is a great opportunity to meet with developers and network with the NonStop Community. What’s more, HP Executives Winston Prather, Randy Meyer, and Steve Saltwick will be presenting the future of NonStop.

Click here for more information and to register.

OpenVMS is well known as solid operating system for applications that require very high availability. Ian Miller of OpenVMS.org states: “While most enterprise-class IT environments measure uptime in days, weeks, or months, customers using OpenVMS environments regularly characterize uptime in terms of years.” In fact, a great number of the world’s stock exchanges and lottery networks run on OpenVMS.

The big news for users is that OpenVMS Version 8.4 has now been released and is available for customers. According to Jacob Van Ewyk of HP in a recent blog post, feedback from beta users has been very positive. Jacob also points out that OpenVMS 8.4 is available on the new Integrity i2 blades and that it will run as a guest operating system in HP Integrity Virtual Machines, providing another virtualization option.

The new release includes the following new features:

Detailed information about the OpenVMS 8.4 release is available here.

The OpenVMS community will be coming together for a Boot Camp in Nashua, New Hampshire from September 13 - 17th. This event offers a wide range of comprehensive technical education and training event dedicated exclusively to the HP OpenVMS Community with information driven by users for users. For more information and to register, click here.

Supermicro, a sponsor member of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, has come out with a new line of servers based on the Itanium 9300 series processor. The SuperServer SYS-4146B-3R system represents Supermicro’s next generation in mission-critical 24×7 business solution computing.

This 4U rackmount system provides full RAS capabilities (reliability, availability and serviceability) for today’s always-on enterprise. Key system resources are designed to be hot-swappable, enabling IT managers to keep their costs down and their options open with mainframe-class functionality. Businesses can count on these servers to perform reliably in complex, real-world environments; to provide seamless support for enterprise-class security solutions; and to heal themselves in response to a wide variety of errors that can bring down less protected platforms.

With today’s software virtualization solutions, IT organizations are consolidating 20 or more applications on a single server to dramatically improve utilization, reduce operating costs, and improve infrastructure agility. The high availability of the Supermicro SYS-4146B-3R is an ideal platform for these applications.

Read more here.

Intel vice president Satoshi Tadashi Munakata recently spoke on ‘IT Innovation for Growth’ at the IT Japan 2010 conference. He said “The server is the lifeblood of semiconductor design, processing speed will be increased to improve the productivity of semiconductor development.” When covering Itanium, he referred to the roadmap of the mission-critical 9300 series: “The 7th generation and the next version’s codename is ‘Poulson’. After that we are ready for ‘Kittson’.” In closing, he mentioned how it is necessary to ‘focus on core competence’ and ‘improve business productivity’ for companies’ growth in Japan’s current economic climate.

HP Technology Services from the UK, as part of its Technical On-line Seminar Programme, will be presenting an “Overview of HP Itanium/Integrity Servers” this Friday, July 23rd, from 11:00 – 3:00 pm ET.

This seminar addresses the needs of administrators and programmers who want a thorough overview of the HP Integrity servers and the HP-UX 11i v2 operating system.

Topics will include:

Experienced HP-UX PA-RISC administrators will benefit most from this seminar.

To register: Contact your HP Proactive Support Representative (ASM/TAM, RSAA, CE or other) and let them know you are interested in attending one of the Technical Online Seminar presentations. For more information, visit the HP Tech Services UK website.