HP is offering reference templates to help IT departments more easily integrate Microsoft applications with its recently announced HP Converged Infrastructure architecture.
In November, HP announced services to help customers build and maintain flexible IT environments through a unified converged infrastructure approach. The idea is that by flexibly managing pools of infrastructure resources there comes the ability to quickly deploy new applications and bring on new business.
This week's announcement focuses on making it easier to maintain Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Windows Server 2008 R2. But in order to manage resources to support business applications and meet service level agreements, managing resource pools requires some know-how, said Chris Christianopoulos, ProLiant Blade Systems solutions development manager with HP.