Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions from HP and Oracle

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1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions from HP and Oracle Driven by innovation to improve interoperability and scalability, HP, Red Hat, and Oracle deliver a broad and deep range of Linux offerings to enhance enterprise environments. A broad range of offerings from industry leaders CIOs challenged with improving their information technology services despite budget constraints continue to find immense opportunities with Linux. Industry studies show Linux is the fastest-growing server operating system because it delivers the necessary business attributes flexibility, stability, and reliability at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than the alternatives. Industry success with Linux and infrastructure servers such as firewalls, directories, and Web servers encourages the use of Linux in higher-value IT services that manage and deliver the enterprise s critical information. Naturally, CIOs will turn to reputable vendors and industry leaders for Linux solutions that help maximize return, mitigate risk, improve performance, and increase agility. Not only are HP, Red Hat, and Oracle true Linux leaders, but also together we are committed to helping organizations improve their IT service management (ITSM) by providing well-managed IT services for their people, processes, and technologies. HP was one of the first technology solutions providers to commit to Linux, realizing that open systems built on industry-standard architectures deliver the simplicity, agility, and value that organizations need to remain competitive. HP s open source and Linux strategy is designed for the real world, across heterogeneous operating environments, and it ties in neatly with the company s vision for the Adaptive Enterprise, in which business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change.

2 The Linux solutions offered by HP and Oracle were dramatically strengthened through Oracle s acquisition of PeopleSoft. HP and PeopleSoft were close partners for more than 17 years and HP runs the world s largest, most complex, single global instance of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS, providing selfservice human resource transactions to 150,000 HP employees in more than 170 countries and 11 languages. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the market-leading platform for open source computing. It is sold by subscription, delivers continuous value, and is certified by both HP and Oracle. From the desktop to the data center, Enterprise Linux couples the innovation of open source technology with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. Oracle s commitment to Linux parallels HP s. This commitment began in 1998, when Oracle produced the first commercial database on Linux. Now, all Oracle products are available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Oracle provides support for the world s leading Linux distributions. Together, HP, Red Hat, and Oracle create and deliver standards-based Linux solutions in business continuity and high availability, business intelligence, content management, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise integration, enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain, IT consolidation, manufacturing, messaging and collaboration, and mobility, among other categories. In addition, HP offers world-class services and management capabilities that help achieve greater performance, more functionality, and better interoperability and integration from the Oracle solution stack. Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions from HP and Oracle help to create a grid-enabled Adaptive Enterprise. Red Hat Enterprise Linux based Oracle applications and HP s industry-standard servers simply work better together. In fact, HP was the first vendor to certify a platform for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Linux and has offered a continuous roadmap of proven offerings ever since. Both companies, understanding that organizations need to improve their IT utilization through increased resource sharing, have expanded upon their own philosophies to create the grid-enabled Adaptive Enterprise in which Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a key ingredient. The gridenabled Adaptive Enterprise dramatically improves an IT department s ability to respond to business changes and meet service-level agreements cost-effectively. It delivers: Improved business agility by building flexible, efficient IT infrastructures Increased quality of service by providing industryleading performance and high availability Reduced costs through better utilization of resources Grid computing enables an environment in which all of your IT resources servers, storage, network devices, data stores, and applications are available when and where you need them the most. Grids allow you to provision applications and allocate capacity among geographically and organizationally dispersed teams as your business needs change. This ability to handle peaks and troughs in demand enables you to take advantage of underutilized resources, rapidly deploy resources for new projects, and improve time to market for new products. A grid-enabled Adaptive Enterprise begins with standardization. Oracle produces a standardized software infrastructure for data and applications that run seamlessly on a wide range of industry-standard HP servers and storage products that run Linux. The result: reduced upfront, incremental, and operational computing costs. 2

3 Oracle solutions available on Linux include: Oracle Application Server 10g, which provides a complete application deployment environment, including automatic workload balancing and clustering services for a heterogeneous IT environment Oracle Database 10g and Oracle RAC the industry s first database for grid computing which deliver the availability, scalability, and performance that grid HP has more than 6,500 Linux-trained consultants, engineers, and support agents in more than 160 countries. computing require; Oracle RAC enables enterprises to run Oracle databases across multiple separate servers, extending its renowned capabilities in analytics, content management, performance, and security to a highavailability environment with nearly boundless scale-out and scale-up functionality Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control, which provides end-to-end management of the Oracle infrastructure and its applications HP servers: innovation based on standards To fully reap the benefits of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux based Oracle database and applications, HP offers a comprehensive standards-based server portfolio that provides superior choice, focused innovation, and a world-class experience. Oracle and HP engineers work closely together so that the entire Oracle portfolio is optimized to perform better on HP platforms. From the data center to the desktop to mobile devices, HP offers a manageable, integrated, dependable, networked infrastructure that seamlessly and reliably connects and manages processes and resources. HP ProLiant servers and industry-leading Itanium 2 based HP Integrity servers are ideally suited to heterogeneous environments, delivering integrated multi- OS capabilities, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux. And because their foundation is based on industry-standard architectures, you re not locked in to proprietary solutions which means your enterprise will reap outstanding investment protection, significant performance advantages, and a lower TCO. Oracle, Red Hat, and HP combine to set a world-record benchmark with Linux. High performance at a low cost: Oracle Database 10g RAC on Itanium-based HP Integrity server clusters running Red Hat Enterprise Linux deliver the world s best transaction processing performance. As proof, Oracle Database 10g and a cluster of midrange HP Integrity servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HP StorageWorks solutions hold the world-record Transaction Processing Council TPC-C benchmark of 1,184, transactions per minute. HP Linux Reference Architectures mitigate risk and expedite return. In response to concerns about potential risks associated with Linux implementations, HP has created a set of Linux Reference Architectures (LRA), a complete, configured, and tested open source and Linux platform and middleware stack, along with a full array of HP consulting, integration, and support services. LRA is designed to simplify decision-making, accelerate solution deployment, reduce risk and cost, and validate results with proof-of-concept testing. It provides everything you need for a successful Linux implementation, including: Industry-standard platforms ranging from 32-bit HP ProLiant servers to high-end, 64-bit HP Integrity servers Red Hat Enterprise Linux Comprehensive management tools Commercial and open source middleware Optional value-add/completers software A full range of services and global support 3

4 Through LRA, HP service professionals will guide you in choosing the right middleware and supporting software for your specific needs. HP provides assistance throughout every stage of implementation, including porting of applications from previous environments to your new Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. Plus, you can count on HP as your single point of contact for comprehensive support around the world. Management: a simplified approach to increase efficiency on Red Hat Enterprise Linux HP OpenView bolsters the joint Linux portfolio from HP and Oracle even further by providing a flexible, solution-ready management architecture for Oracle Linux solutions. HP OpenView utilizes HP software, Smart Plug- Ins (SPIs), third-party software, and industry-standard integration buses. It allows you to monitor the availability and response time of mission-critical applications, enabling prompt problem detection and resolution. HP OpenView Operations (OVO) is integrated with Oracle Grid Control for enhanced operations, services, and performance management for Oracle clusters. HP OpenView Internet Services (OVIS) provides a window into the overall IT environment, detecting server performance issues and providing alerts. The comprehensive integration between OVO, OVIS, and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g offers outstanding depth and breadth of management capabilities for the Linux customer all based on a common view of management data. In addition, HP offers both an OpenView Smart Plug-In (SPI) for managing PeopleSoft applications, and HP Managed Services Infrastructure Hosting solutions for the PeopleSoft Enterprise offering. This seamless level of integration leverages Oracle s database and application management strength as well as HP OpenView s host and network management capabilities helping you to further reduce costs, lower complexity, and increase efficiency of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. 4

5 HP Services supports your mission-critical, Red Hat Enterprise Linux based solution. HP has more than 6,500 Linux-trained consultants, engineers, and support agents in more than 160 countries. We have more than 20 years of experience in providing comprehensive service portfolios, regardless of the business size or type, and we re recognized worldwide as the #1 leader in provisioning services for open IT environments. HP s comprehensive open source and Linux solutions, built on established technology expertise and industryleading partnerships, let you focus on your business while HP keeps your Linux environment flexible and stable cost-effectively. As Linux market leaders, Red Hat and HP have worked together for more than five years, sharing a commitment to open source and delivering the benefits of Linux to enterprise customers on industry-standard platforms, including reduced TCO, improved ROI, and increased flexibility. Our customers now enjoy secure, highperformance, reliable environments in which to deploy their Linux applications. Our strategic OEM partnership enables HP to sell and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions worldwide across HP s entire ProLiant and Integrity server lines. Additionally, HP and Red Hat are working together to expand the potential of modular HP BladeSystem platforms an integrated foundation ideal for the migration, consolidation, and simplification of complete infrastructures. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is fully supported at a Tier 1 level on all HP servers. Our complementary service arrangement allows HP to provide customers with level one and two support and to work level three issues directly with Red Hat on behalf of the customer. In addition, HP engineering has added a comprehensive set of complementary base drivers, installation scripts, and management software to provide optimal integration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on its servers. Also, a worldwide Cooperative Support Agreement (CSA) provides the foundation for collaboration between HP and Oracle in support of our mutual customers. As part of the agreement, a Joint Service Center (JSC) addresses interoperability issues between HP and Oracle for Oraclebased Linux solutions, as well as other platforms. For more information, please visit: HP Financial Services helps the power of HP s portfolio work for you. In addition to having the industry s strongest portfolio of products, services, people, tools, methodologies, and world-class partnerships, HP makes it easy on the balance sheet to put the power of the HP portfolio to work for you through HP Financial Services. For more information, please visit: 5

6 Why HP, Oracle, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Driven by innovation to improve interoperability and scalability, HP, Red Hat, and Oracle deliver a broad and deep range of Linux offerings to enhance enterprise environments. HP and Oracle have been working together for more than 20 years and have more than 80,000 joint customers. Both companies share a common vision of helping customers become more agile in order to meet the changing demands of their IT infrastructure and, consequently, both have built their enterprise solutions based on industry standards. To learn more For more information about how Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions from HP and Oracle can help improve your competitive advantage, please visit: Oracle s core technology can be found in nearly every industry around the world, including the offices of 98 of the Fortune 100 companies, and it is the world s largest Linux database and applications software company. HP is the #1 technology provider of enterprise applications for Oracle environments and is the #1 provider of Linux solutions worldwide. Both companies emphasize the strong integration of Linux services and products. HP is committed to the delivery of rich ITSM services complemented by HP OpenView management products with Linux. And HP Mission Critical Services have been designed with the understanding that IT services built with Oracle applications involve the delivery of information that is critical to the enterprise. Whether your requirements are for standalone, failover, or scale-out with Oracle RAC technology running Linux, HP has tested and proven solutions that work right the first time Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a U.S. registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Oracle is a registered U.S. trademark of Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, California. To learn more, visit 4AA0-1102ENW, 07/2005