The March, 2010 launch of the new HP-UX 11i Operating System

Since I promised to share as often as possible on the topic of operating systems and especially those related to organizational IT, I will take a moment to outline what were announced today as enhancements for the March, 2010 release of HP-UX 11i. 

Virtualization: Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2 is now available, with a few nice capabilities like automatic memory reallocation, a new storage reporting tool, and the ability to temporarily start and stop the virtual machine

Green and environmental care: In order to reduce the amount of DVDs floating around or being used as Frisbees, HP has now extended e-Delivery beyond the Americas to now support the entire world.  This should reduce paper and plastic consumption by over 150 tons

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership: The Secure Resource Partitions for HP-UX 11i have integrated new architecture for SAP

Decrease human error: The HP-UX 11i Logical Volume Manager now supports the ability to take snapshots of entire system configurations at the volume level

Security: HP-UX 11i is now validated by EAL4 Common Criteria certification.  Maintain stringent security in compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

The above is a short list of the few new capabilities that I think are most notable.  The main update page has an exhaustive list and far more details, should you need them.  And may I take a moment to say thank you to all the hard working engineers and product planners who make HP-UX 11i the great OS it is!