HP reveals new information optimisation solutions

HP today announced new and enhanced information optimisation solutions that help enterprises manage, understand and act upon the variety, velocity and volume of organisational data.

During a press conference at the HP Discover 2012 conference in Frankfurt, the company referred to “return on information” as the value that organisations generate from their investments in information solutions, services and resources by gaining insight from their data to make better and quicker decisions.

Big data is comprised of structured data, from traditional databases; unstructured data consisting of images, videos, emails, texts and more; and semi structured data collected from sensors and machines and are all factors in the challenge that organisations are facing today.

The volume of the world’s “digital universe” is expected to reach 8 zettabytes by 2015, making storage and management of data a massive challenge. HP said. Furthermore, according to new research conducted on behalf of HP, nearly 60 percent of business executives report that their organisations are not equipped with the right solutions to gain insight from big data, and only 10 percent of executives said their organisations currently incorporate unstructured data into their enterprise insights, processes and strategy.

HP said its new solutions from Autonomy and HP Vertica, coupled with its new converged infrastructure solutions and deep services expertise, enables businesses and governments to extract value from 100 percent of their structured, semi structured and unstructured information.

“Over the next several years, return on information will become the single most important measure of success for organisations,” said George Kadifa, Executive VP, Software, HP.

“HP will continue to invest in and develop solutions and services that harness the volume, diversity and unpredictability of information to deliver real value to our clients.”

To address the need for configuring and deploying big data systems, HP today expanded its HP AppSystems portfolio to offer improved customer choice and expanded capabilities of HP Converged Infrastructure with Apache Hadoop, HP Vertica Analytics Platform and Autonomy eDiscovery environments.

The Autonomy Legal and Compliance Performance Suite is an end-to-end solution that uniquely enables organisations to detect and act on new signals of risk; understand, protect, govern, and collaborate on information, and maintain compliance with local, federal and international regulations.

The suite is powered by the Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), a unique pattern recognition engine that understands concepts in all forms of information, and includes market-leading offerings for archiving, data protection, enterprise content management (ECM), eDiscovery and records management.

HP Proactive Care for SAP optimises an infrastructure running SAP solutions, enabling faster analysis of large amounts of data, including application trend analysis, capacity planning and measurement of system resource utilisation.

The newly enhanced HP Converged Storage portfolio eliminates administrative complexity, reduces costs and accelerates information insight in virtualised, cloud and big data environments, HP said.

The HP Vertica Analytics Platform 6.1 is a next-generation analytics platform, purpose built to optimise big data. It enables enterprises to optimise and monetise big data with analytics packs, performance enhancements, enhanced integration with Hadoop and simplified Amazon EC2 cloud deployments.

The new HP Telco Big Data and Analytics solutions enable communication service providers (CSPs) to transform data from a variety of sources, including subscribers’ experience and preferences, into actionable intelligence. Leveraging HP’s big data analytics software, as well as HP’s consulting, research, information management and business intelligence experience, HP Telco Big Data and Analytics enable CSPs to manage, analyse and use business-relevant structured and unstructured data.

The HP Big Data Strategy Workshop provides clients with solutions to address some of their biggest information challenges, so they can leverage their data to accelerate informed decisions. The workshop educates clients on aligning IT and organisational goals, and on identifying critical success factors for big data architecture and system infrastructure strategy.

It also helps to enable protection and compliance. As a result, clients can implement the right solutions to handle the growing volume, velocity and variety of their organisational information.

The Autonomy Marketing Performance Suite, powered by IDOL, enables marketers to understand, attract, engage and convert customers in real-time.

CNME Editor Ben Rossi is reporting from the HP Discover 2012 conference in Frankfurt. Follow Twitter updates at @ComputerNewsME and #HPDiscover.