As Hewlett-Packard enlarge its galaxy of devices, from handhelds to large servers and novel networking products from its new gaining of 3Com, it's raising the mechanization and management capabilities of its systems tools at a like speed.

HP officials say the corporation's launch of HP Business Service Management 9, proclaimed at its Software Universe discussion here, represents an innovation of this system from its foundation.

It can now automate more processes as well as support services running outwardly in outsourced and cloud environments, such as Amazon's EC2, HP said.

HP officials consider that mechanization is the true pathway to cost savings, and this newest release of BSM contains some novel draw near.

It collects system information in real time using alerts in its place of scanning, and has joint the services into one transaction database, according to Robin Purohit, vice president and general manager of HP's software products.

BSM pair this data-meeting with tools for formative the root causes of a difficulty and an automated remediation capability, which HP said it has expanded in this release.