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Meeting Commercial Environment Demands

Section 2.

Rich Operating Environment

Distributed Computing

System and Network Management

High Availability and Security

[Illustration Title: Meeting Commercial Environment Demands]

[Illustration Caption: In the Open Systems arena, HP's combination of
servers, networking, clients, and peripherals is unparalleled. But,
computing solutions encompass more than hardware and networking.
An equally important component to a successful computing
enterprise is an operating environment enriched with the
functionality required for the demands of business computing.]

HP 9000 Business Servers provide a powerful computing environment
to best address your business critical issues. The foundation
begins with our robust operating environment, HP-UX. As HP's UNIX
foundation is further enhanced with superior high availability,
network and system management, security, performance, distributed
computing, and transaction processing, the HP 9000 Business
Servers can meet even the most demanding commercial requirements.


A Robust Operating Environment

With IT executives today looking at issues such as downsizing,
Open Systems, client/server architectures, cost reductions and
increased performance as ways to improve organizational
efficiency, UNIX has become the operating system of choice for
most companies.

The HP 9000 operating system, HP-UX, provides a flourishing
environment within a base of standards for superior
interoperability and portability.

HP's commitment to standards
That Open Systems permits interoperability and portability is
not just by chance. It can be explained in a single word.
Standards.

HP is committed to all the primary industry standards (see figure
2.1). It is through the diligent efforts of these standards
committees, with HP as a major player, that UNIX has become the
prerequisite for Open Systems. HP-UX has gained a strong presence
in the commercial marketplace.

[Illustration Title: HP Demonstrated Commitment to Industry Standards]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.1 HP fortified the HP-UX computing
environment, within a base of standards, with enhanced commercial
capabilities essential to performance and productivity.]

HP-UX is a superset implementation of AT&T's UNIX System V,
incorporating the best capabilities of Berkeley 4.3, plus value-
added features from HP and the Open Software Foundation(TM) (OSF).
The unique combination of standards and technology within HP-UX
improves interoperability, performance and system management,
while facilitating adaptation of software to meet the needs of
international markets.

An X/Open branded solution
The HP 9000 family is X/Open* base profile compliant for XPG4, the
open system portability standard backed by OSF, UNIX International
(UI), and major computer vendors, including HP, IBM, DEC, NCR, and
Sun. HP's support of XPG4, the emerging "all encompassing
standard" further exemplifies our commitment to standards.

* X-Open is a trademark of X/Open Company Limited in the UK and
other countries

XPG extends multivendor portability across a broad computing
environment to many other systems. So if you need to share data
among systems, or move applications, you don't have to rewrite
programs, reorganize data, or completely retrain employees.

Versatile operating environment
The power and versatility of HP-UX and its broad range of
utilities and communication features also make it excellent for
program development. Coupled with tools from HP's leading CASE
partners, HP-UX offers a productive development environment for
programmers.

HP-UX is easier to use than other UNIX operating systems,
incorporating unique capabilities that enable you to automate
procedures and save time.

For example, users with workstations or X-terminals can also take
advantage of HP's award-winning Visual User Environment (VUE), a
point-and-click desktop manager, built on key industry standards
such as OSF/Motif and the X Window system.

A terminal session manager enhances productivity for users
connected to HP 9000 Business Servers via ASCII terminals or PCs.
Users can participate in as many as ten concurrent sessions--which
might include access to applications on the host, a mail session,
a word-processing session, a database session, and more.

To save you further time and trouble, integrated Series 800
Business Servers arrive with the operating system preloaded,
enabling the server to start up automatically during system
installation.

HP-UX localization allows worldwide implementation
HP systems work wherever you do. Our HP-UX products support a wide
range of languages, including French, German, Italian, Spanish,
and major Asian languages, such as Japanese, traditional and
simplified Chinese, and Korean.

HP's Native Language Support (NLS) provides the tools you need for
developing international software. NLS supports multiple
languages, enabling application developers to localize software
for multiple national markets quickly and easily. OSF adopted NLS
as their cornerstone for internationalization technology.

Servers with Unmatched Performance

PA-RISC and HP-UX are highly tuned to provide outstanding
performance as a database server, as a file server, and as a
compute server. This unmatched performance across these server
environments is validated through industry-standard benchmarks
designed to allow you to make appropriate comparisons between
systems.

As a database server, the HP 9000 excels at both commercial OLTP
and batch processing. HP's performance leadership is evidenced by
both the TPC-A and TPC-C benchmarks for OLTP and TPC-B for batch.
Based on real commercial applications, the TPC benchmarks are
complete system-level benchmarks that exercise all system
components. TPC benchmarks and OLTP estimates demonstrate the HP
9000 Series 800 Business Servers' far broader range of commercial
performance than IBM, Sun, or NCR systems (see figure 2.3). In
fact, results show that HP high-end systems are three times more
powerful than the largest RS/6000, AS/400, or SPARCserver systems.

[Illustration Title: Optimized Commercial Processing Performance]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.2 HP 9000 Series 800 Business Servers
integrate performance enhancements at every level of the environment to
give you superior database server, file server, and compute server
performance.]

[Illustration Title: Industry-Leading Transaction Performance]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.3 The above chart shows HP as the only
major vendor that offers a single coherent platform spanning from
desktop to datacenter.]

HP systems are also excellent choices as file servers. LADDIS, a
new benchmark that measures Network File System (NFS) server
performance demonstrates HP's leadership. LADDIS emulates a
software development environment with a heavy NFS workload. Like
TPC-A, the HP 9000 has the industry's best LADDIS performance for
any system available today.

As compute servers, HP systems also shine. Benchmarks such as
SPECint92 and SPECfp92 show HP's strong performance in integer and
floating point environments, respectively.

Thus, whether you need a database server, a file server, a compute
server, or all three, the HP 9000 Series 800 Business Servers can
provide you with the highest performance available.


Leading Distributed Computing Solutions

Many businesses are finding that traditional centralized computing
systems are not able to keep pace with their business
requirements. Furthermore, newest technological advances of
mainframe power at the desktop, and easier to use desktop software
allows users to be more productive and responsive in distributed
computing environments. Thus, IT managers are leveraging this
power by turning to distributed systems to better map their
business needs to their IT infrastructure, while gaining
significant competitive advantages.

The Series 800 provides a solid foundation for distributed,
client/server applications in an open environment (see figure
2.4). HP's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE/9000) is the
industry's most comprehensive implementation of the Open Software
Foundation's (OSF) DCE suite.

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.4 These cornerstone technologies provide
a foundation for HP's distributed client/server architecture for HP-UX.]

HP DCE/9000 provides a high-quality, fully-functional, standards
based framework to develop, administer, manage, and use
distributed applications. In addition to a robust and high
performance offering, HP DCE/9000 also offers industry leading
development, debugging, and management tools as well as
comprehensive support, training, and education.

With DCE/9000, users can have enterprise-wide, fully distributed
applications with security, resource management, and file sharing
handled transparently and automatically.

Robust Transaction Management

In addition to providing a solid platform for DCE based
applications, HP is enhancing its distributed computing solution
with complementary OLTP products. Distributed OLTP computing
environments can be greatly enhanced with the use of transaction
processing monitors that increase data integrity and system
performance. It should come as no surprise that the industry's
leading TP monitors are all available on the HP 9000 platform.

Encina/9000
HP provides the Encina(R) transaction manager for data integrity
in heterogeneous distributed OLTP environments. Encina/9000 is a
breakthrough technology in several ways. While distributed
processing is not a new concept, data integrity across different
databases and hardware is new. And, HP's Encina offers this
flexibility within a distributed multivendor environment.

What's more, Encina/9000 offers this flexibility on a foundation
of standards-based DCE services.

CICS/9000(R)
CICS is the dominant transaction monitor in traditional IBM
mainframe environments and has been licensed to HP by IBM. IBM
chose HP as the first non-IBM platform for CICS because of HP's
leading market position in Open Systems.

CICS/9000 will allow the many businesses with existing CICS
applications and expertise to easily migrate and enjoy the open
flexibility of the HP 9000 Series 800 platform. CICS/9000
leverages current investments in applications and people.

Additional transaction processing solutions
USL's Tuxedo System/T(R) and NCR's TopEnd(R) transaction
processing monitors are also available for the HP 9000 through
Independent Technologies, Inc. Integris and VISystems also offer
CICS emulators for the HP 9000 Business Server.


Powerful System and Network Management

As computing power continues to migrate from centralized to
distributed environments towards client/server environments, the
need to simplify network and system integration becomes
increasingly essential. To address this new paradigm, HP provides
a comprehensive set of integrated systems and network management
tools called HP OpenView.

The unique and powerful features of OpenView have earned this
product recognition as one of the top 20 products of the past 20
years.* The award recognized HP OpenView's significance in setting
a new direction for the industry and establishing a de facto
standard. With industry endorsements from OSF, IBM, Groupe Bull,
and over 100 others, it brings together the products,
partnerships, and expertise needed to manage performance, backup,
and operations control.

* Data Communications, DataCom User Survey, September 1992

HP system and network management tools are designed to facilitate
corporate enterprise IT planning and resource allocation.

HP OpenView: The Quickest and Smoothest Path to DME

OSF's Distributed Management Environment (DME) will answer
a huge challenge by providing a unified approach to managing
systems, networks, and applications in multivendor, heterogeneous
networks. Components of the HP OpenView Distributed Management
Platform are the key components of DME and allow you to purchase
with confidence, solutions based on DME-selected technologies
today.

The HP OpenView Network Management Architecture (NMA), for
example, provides a modular distributed network management
solution for managing an entire network of distributed multi-
vendor computers and devices (see figure 2.5).

[Illustration Title: HP OpenView Framework: The Quickest and Smoothest
Path to DME]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.5 Starting with HP's OpenView Framework
will pave the way to a fully distributed network management solution.
HP's comprehensive network and system management capabilities from HP
OpenView handle everything from simple, local-area networks to complete
enterprise networks.]

HP OpenView NMA features include:

o Management of TCP/IP, SNMP, Novell, and OSI networks
o An open application development environment, ensuring
  interoperability for today's and tomorrow's products
o An advanced, yet intuitive graphical user interface using
  OSF/Motif
o Multivendor flexibility, with HP OpenView available on HP-UX,
  MS-DOS(R), IBM, Sun, and Groupe Bull systems.

Powerful local network management
The HP OpenView Network Node Manager, which works on the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP) standard, enables a system
administrator to configure, troubleshoot, and monitor performance
for a network of TCP/IP nodes--all from a central workstation. The
administrator can retrieve information from all TCP/IP hosts or
devices on the network and display a network map, events, trends,
and statistics graphically.

HP OpenView's platform supports many applications, including
OpenSNA from Peregrine Systems, which provides direct management
of SNA networks from HP OpenView.

Other HP OpenView products extend the power, resources, and
security of HP 9000 Business Servers to PC users on local area
networks.

With all of these capabilities available on an economical HP 9000
Series 800 Business Server, instead of a mainframe, you can reduce
your overall network management expense.

Centralized enterprise network management
The HP OpenView suite of network management utilities lets you
use a Series 800 Business Server to host multiple network
management applications. As a central point of administration, the
HP OpenView platform integrates and routes management information
transparently across the network, over routers and bridges, and
stores it for immediate or deferred analysis or reporting.

Using dynamic network mapping to locate and display all devices on
the network, system administrators can maximize network
availability, isolate and correct problems, and dramatically
reduce administration time.

Graphical user interface provides consistency
HP OpenView incorporates a graphical user interface based on
OSF/Motif. By providing an open view of the entire network,
including all types of vendor and network elements, this interface
enables the network manager to see the interaction between
multiple components of the network and control different
subnetworks through multiple windows and multiple displays as
desired (see figure 2.6).

[Illustration Title: HP OpenView]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.6 HP OpenView Windows-based screens
simplify system and network management.]

[Quote]
"HP excelled not just in price/performance but in quality of
support, integration, and communications expertise."

--Ken Richardson, Technology Infrastructure Unit Project Manager,
United Kingdom Post Office, (United Kingdom Post Office migrated
from multiple AS/400's to the Series 800).

Managing Multivendor Distributed Systems

HP OpenView gives you a foundation for complete system management.
Using HP OpenView OperationsCenter, a data center operator can
manage networked systems from a single console so remote sites can
run completely unattended. The HP OpenView OperationsCenter
handles the monitoring and control of distributed operations
through centralization, integration, and automation of these
management activities. Thus, efficient operation of large
distributed computing environments is easily managed with the HP
OpenView OperationsCenter (see figure 2.7).

[Illustration Title: HP's Powerful OpenView OperationsCenter Easily
Manages Distributed Operations]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.7 Management of distributed computing
environments is simple and efficient with HP's OpenView
OperationsCenter, with a centralized approach to monitoring, event
management, and console control.]

Software distribution made easy

HP OpenView Software Distributor facilitates single point software
deployment for client/server distributed environments. This
centralized management provides distributed installation, updates,
and removal of software across a network. The result is easier
software distribution which minimizes the total cost of software.

Obtaining Timely Performance Information

To maximize productivity from your existing hardware, software,
and staff, you need concise, timely performance management
information to help you anticipate problems before they arise and
plan for future applications with confidence.

HP performance solutions reduce information overload. Instead of
burdening you with reams of performance data, they provide concise
reports with meaningful recommendations. And presentation-quality
graphic overviews help you analyze situations quickly and easily.

Monitoring and diagnostic solutions resolve performance problems
HP's on-line performance monitoring and diagnostic products help
you isolate and resolve system performance bottlenecks.

HP GlancePlus/UX gives you the system activity information you
need to quickly identify and restore satisfactory service levels
when occasional problems occur.

HP's diagnostic solution, HP LaserRX/UX, combines historic
performance data collection with graphic analysis software to help
you analyze current and past system bottlenecks, manage service
levels, and control resource costs.

Capacity planning with confidence
With HP capacity management solutions such as HP RXForecast, you
can analyze workloads, forecast system resource requirements, and
predict future performance.

Enterprise performance management
HP PerfView provides centralized performance management of
distributed systems using management-by-exception techniques. Both
graphic and textual notification appear on the HP OpenView map. In
addition, the graphical user interface can be used to characterize
and isolate performance problems. If you require more detail, HP
GlancePlus can be used within the same user interface.

HP PerfView, together with HP's other performance management
products, helps you to identify and correct existing and potential
performance problems before users notice.

Cost-Effective Operations Control

HP's innovative and standards-based spooling software, HP
OpenSpool, enables users to easily perform complex local and
remote spooling procedures (see figure 2.8). OpenSpool is the only
commercial spooler available based on MIT's Palladium Toolkit
selected by the OSF for DME. Together with HP LAN Manager/X, or HP
NetWare/9000, HP OpenSpool provides networked spooling for PCs.

[Illustration Title: HP Performance Monitoring Solutions]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.8 Interactive performance monitoring
software can provide quick and easy access to dynamic information
regarding system performance and resource utilization.]

Versatile Backup Facilities

To protect data against loss, reduce the system manager's
archiving responsibility, and give users more control over
archiving and retrieval of files, HP offers a robust set of backup
solutions.

HP OmniBack is a full-featured and versatile central and network
backup system that can automate backup operations across a
distributed network.

[Quote]
"Hewlett-Packard has learned from its history of extremely high
customer satisfaction what users need and want in a a commercial
system."

--Aberdeen Group

System administrators can manage backup from any of the nodes on
the network. HP OmniBack also provides sophisticated journaling
and scheduling capabilities.

HP OmniBack/Turbo is the industry leading high performance backup
solution with a backup rate of up to 15 to 20 Gbytes per hour.
Rewritable optical library systems support lets you perform
unattended backup and recovery of up to 2000 Gbytes of data (see
figure 2.9).

[Illustration Title: High-Performance Backup with HP OmniBack/Turbo]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.9 Our versatile HP OmniBack/Turbo
solution delivers the high performance backup and recovery capability
you need.]

*PC backup requires Quest's Plan-B software

Powerful System Administration

As systems grow in complexity and size, simplifying system
administration becomes more essential. To manage HP 9000 Business
Servers, HP's powerful Motif-based System Administration Manager
(SAM) enables you to perform system administration tasks quickly
and easily.

SAM's powerful features include:

o Context-sensitive help--simplifies operation for novice system
  administrators
o Information validity check--protects against potentially harmful
  errors
o Customization/extensibility--enables system administrators to
  perform tasks specific to their environment.

Complementary HP Channel Partner Solutions

The combination of both the HP OpenView portfolio and the HP
Channel Partner solutions provides our customers the industry's
broadest choice of solutions for network and system management.

Computer Associates data center management
Through HP's strategic partnership with Computer Associates (CA),
the largest software vendor in the world, the HP 9000 Series 800
family has become the first UNIX platform to take advantage of
CA's rich data center systems management solutions, CA-UNICENTER
for UNIX.

CA's UNICENTER for UNIX is a comprehensive, integrated solution
that addresses fundamental management areas, including security,
control and audit; automated storage management; automated
production control; performance management and accounting; and
data center administration.

Tivoli Systems distributed system management
The HP 9000 platform coupled with the Tivoli Management
Environment (TME) can help customers dramatically reduce the cost
and complexity of managing distributed computing networks of
workstations and servers from HP and other vendors. TME's object-
oriented technology, applications, and graphical-user interface
simplifies and automates the time-consuming administration and
management tasks for complex multivendor distributed environments.


High Availability and Security

HP 9000 Business Servers bring traditional UNIX capabilities up to
commercial standards, with a complete line of high-availability
solutions ranging from high-quality, reliable systems to fault-
tolerant computing systems.

HP's complete line of high availability and security solutions
meet your mission-critical needs for data security and system
availability:

o  Security solutions provide added system security, combining
   flexibility with accountability to safeguard your data.
o  Power-fail auto-restart, disk arrays, transparent disk
   mirroring, and automatic system recovery capabilities ensure
   high system and data availability for a wide range of
   environments.
o  Fault tolerance is available for uninterruptable on-line
   processing and maximum availability.

At HP, we recognize that in today's distributed client/server
environments, data may be distributed and accessed across a wide
variety and geography of systems. This makes the systems
availability and security of data more important than ever.

Enhanced data availability
Processing mission-critical applications efficiently requires
systems with high availability and data integrity. Unplanned
downtime can impact a company's return on investment (ROI) with
missed business opportunities, delayed or wasted labor, and
disruption to schedules. HP 9000 systems answer the availability
challenge with a choice of solutions to protect your investments
in existing hardware and software (see figure 2.10).

[Illustration Title: HP's Reliable Computing Solutions]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.10 HP lets you match your
availability requirements with a variety of reliable computing
solutions.]

Start with HP's industry-leading, highly reliable Series 800
Business Servers, and increase system availability within the same
server family as your needs grow. Or, for continuous operations,
choose from HP 9000's robust fault-tolerant Series 1200 family.

Highly reliable systems
HP's leading-edge Precision Architecture RISC (PA-RISC) and
advanced VLSI technology dramatically increase reliability. The
mean time between failures (MTBF) for systems averages over three
years. And uptime typically exceeds 99.7 percent. As a result, HP
9000 Business Servers keep your business running smoothly.

HP-UX, the industry's most reliable UNIX-based computing
environment, also contributes to highly reliable systems (see
figure 2.11). Intensive and thorough testing before all major
releases of our HP-UX operating system ensures that customers can
develop and run applications with confidence.

[Illustration Title: Industry-Leading Operating System
Reliability]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.11 As independent studies show, HP
leads the industry in reliability for UNIX implementations.]

Powerful recovery capabilities prevent data loss
To eliminate data loss from power interruptions, HP offers power-
fail recovery products that preserve essential data through
battery backup, and then automatically restart operation after
power is restored.

Increased data availability
HP's Disk Arrays protect data and allow uninterrupted access to
data in the event of a disk failure. A failed disk drive may be
replaced online and the data automatically restored to the new
drive without user interruption.

Disk mirroring, available with HP's MirrorDisk/UX, prevents data
loss by maintaining up to three copies of data on separate disks.
That way, your data is still accessible after any single disk or
controller failure. And you can perform on-line backups to
maximize uptime.

What's more, each of these capabilities is transparent to the
software running on the system.

Automatic system recovery increases uptime
For those mission-critical applications requiring nearly
continuous uptime, HP offers an automatic system recovery
capability called HP Switchover/UX. You can run mission-critical
applications on a primary system, while a standby system, which
can also be used for less critical applications, monitors the
primary system's health. If the primary system should fail, the
standby system takes over automatically (see figure 2.12). A
single standby system can monitor up to seven primary systems.
Again, these capabilities are transparent to the software running
on the system.

[Illustration Title: HP Provides Effective Automatic Recovery
Solutions]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.12 HP SwitchOver/UX significantly
decreases unplanned server downtime due to processor related
problems.]

[Quote]
"The Hewlett-Packard Business Servers provide us with a very
reliable platform for our business and technical applications."

--Klaus Stadler, Manager, Technical Development, BASF, November
1991

HP 9000 Series 1200 fault-tolerant systems
For demanding on-line transaction processing applications, HP
offers a scalable high-performance fault-tolerant solution
designed for commercial environments.

This solution allows uninter-ruptible processing and on-line CPU,
disk, and input/output expansion_critical features for businesses
that cannot afford anything less than 100 percent computing
availability.

Increased information security
HP's enhanced operating system effectively addresses commercial
security requirements. HP-UX incorporates features such as
auditing, a protected password database, and extensive
documentation to help users and systems administrators maintain a
secure operating environment. It also provides Access Control
Lists to give users the flexibility to authorize or restrict file
access on a need-to-know basis (see figure 2.13).

[Illustration Title: Enhanced Security for Commercial
Environments]

[Illustration Caption: Figure 2.13 HP-UX security solutions
provide added UNIX security, combining flexibility with
accountability to safeguard your data.]

HP-UX is designed to meet the C2 level of security as defined by
the Department of Defense (DoD). For customers with more
restrictive and complex security requirements, HP provides an
enhanced "multi-level" secure version of HP-UX called HP-UX BLS,
which exceeds the DoD requirements for a B1 rating.

What's more, security software tools are available that automate
the process of identifying and correcting security violations and
vulnerabilities in standalone or networked environments. Examples
of leading HP Channel Partner Solutions that provide enhanced
security solutions for HP-UX include: SecureMax/UX from DeMax
Software, and Security Toolkit from Raxco.

CA-UNICENTER from Computer Associates provides a comprehensive
offering which includes a security audit and control module, as
well as facilities for all general system administration tasks.

In addition, HP is addressing distributed environment security
challenges through its OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)
offering.

[Quote]
"The Department's requirement for multiple levels of security on
the same system is a high priority, and HP's B-level security,
UNIX-System-based solution met our security needs."

--Tony Skinner, Australian Diplomatic Communications Network
Project Manager, Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade