Automated Deployment Services Original Equipment Manufacturers

Dell PowerEdge servers offer reliability, performance, and scalability with standards-based technology that is affordable and easy to deploy for all business-critical applications, including e-mail, database, and high-performance computing environments. PowerEdge servers can leverage the deployment capabilities of Automated Deployment Services to help drive value to your business by reducing the time to deploy and increasing system availability. Once deployed, Dell OpenManage can manage your PowerEdge servers by providing open, flexible server management tools that integrate with leading systems management applications to help lower overall management costs.

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused information technology and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Since its establishment in 1935, Fujitsu has maintained a commitment to cutting-edge technological innovation and uncompromising product quality. Fujitsu collaborates with Microsoft to deliver more efficient and integrated solutions that dramatically simplify IT operations. Fujitsu provides Automated Deployment Services with its IA Server, PRIMERGY, and is working with Microsoft to integrate Automated Deployment Services with its PRIMERGY servers and its deployment software, SystemcastWizard.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers takes advantage of the strengths of its parent companies, Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, to offer world-class computer technology and innovative IT infrastructure solutions to customers across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Fujitsu Siemens Computers regards Automated Deployment Services as a framework—for example, for operating system image deployment on their PRIMERGY Blade Servers BX300 in a Microsoft environment. Automated Deployment Services are a customer-claimed standard for software deployment and provides to the customers of Fujitsu Siemens Computers a new set of imaging tools that are developed by Microsoft.

HP and Microsoft have combined efforts to enhance automated deployment for HP ProLiant servers in a Windows® environment. HP is actively partnering with Microsoft to help ensure that ProLiant servers are the easiest platforms to deploy when using Windows Server 2003 Automated Deployment Services. The HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit simplifies deployments with Automated Deployment Services by automating the configuration of ProLiant server hardware, array controllers, and Remote Insight Lights Out Edition management cards. The HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit also includes sample scripts and best practices examples on how to use the toolkit in combination with Automated Deployment Services. HP combines broad platform support for Automated Deployment Services, integration with the HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit, and continued work with Microsoft to provide ProLiant customers best-in-class support for deployment of Windows Server 2003 and Automated Deployment Services.

NEC is integrating Automated Deployment Service with the ESMPRO server management suite to help realize the full potential of VALUMO, the NEC autonomic computing concept, across the family of NEC Express servers. NEC understands the importance of delivering customer solutions that result in lower operational costs and increased business agility. NEC also recognizes the important role that the Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) and System Definition Model (SDM) can play in unifying our hardware, software, and management solutions. NEC looks forward to further collaboration efforts with Microsoft that deliver near-term customer value. NEC plans to support Automated Deployment Services in the Japanese market as soon as Microsoft releases the Japanese language version of the product.