HP Unveils New Initiative 

June 3 -- On day two of HP’s Discover conference in Las Vegas, HP announced a new initiative to build a robust ecosystem that will support our vision for the future of enterprise infrastructure.

In the last five years, it’s become clear that applications are driving our digital economy. The pressing question remains though, how can organizations transition from applications that fundamentally “run” the business, to applications that are designed to “be” the business?  Enterprises are jumping at the opportunity to adopt these new apps and services, but the need for a new class of infrastructure built to support them has quickly become a reality.

HP believes this new class of infrastructure will be “Composable”: built on fluid pools of compute, storage and fast flexible fabric, disaggregated so they can be quickly composed, decomposed back into the pool and then re-composed in a software template to fit the specific needs of an application or workload that will run on it. Most importantly, this new class of infrastructure will be built to integrate with existing solutions and will not require a new architecture.

To accelerate the path to this new class of infrastructure, we are launching HP’s Composable Infrastructure API and the HP Composable Infrastructure Partner Program. The combination of the two will provide the initial automation and integration of orchestration tools with today’s infrastructure.

Already, partners including Chef Software, Docker, Puppet Labs, Ansible, and VMware have signed-on to support this initiative which provides the following benefits:

• By essentially treating hardware infrastructure as code, ISVs and developers can programmatically control infrastructure and build out new workflows through HP’s Composable Infrastructure. This single, open API is native in HP OneView, which automates the provisioning, configuration, and monitoring of HP infrastructure.
• By integrating with the HP’s Composable API, ISVs can provide solutions that let customers reduce the time spent on managing their environments and accelerate time to value. By providing interoperability with this API, ISVs can support customer requirements for both traditional IT environments and the rapidly growing digital economy.
• Continuous delivery of applications and services requires policy-based automation of applications and infrastructure across Dev/Test/Production in a fast, fluid manner. HP’s Composable API enables integration into the Dev/Test/Production automation tool chains to drive a more aligned and responsive delivery of IT services to meet the needs of business.
• The HP Composable Infrastructure Partner Program, part of HP Alliance One, provides a set of tools and resources that enable ISVs and developers to build interoperability between HP OneView and other software for programmatic access to infrastructure.  Access to the program is available to all Alliance One members.

As this initiative continues to unfold over the coming quarters, we look forward to bringing new partners on board and supporting our customers as they embrace a new style of infrastructure to meet their changing business needs.

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Source: HP