Hewlett-Packard- Goodyear and HP Join Hands

January 3, 2003- Hewlett-Packard has joined with yet another industry leader in an operation designed to generate greater efficiency and increase savings.

HP's Open View software has been selected by the Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Company, the world's leading manufacturer of tyres, in a project to create a central repository for network, system, database, application and storage management.

This decision will allow Goodyear to reduce the number of consoles necessary to manage its infrastructure from eight to just one.

"A centralised point of management control is essential for Goodyear to optimise its IT infrastructure throughout the company," said Jim Grant, general manager, HP OpenView Business Unit.

The first phase of the project will see the introduction of HP OpenView Operations as the management systems for Goodyear's multi-platform infrastructure.

"In order for Goodyear's IT assets to be managed more effectively, we needed a holistic view of the entire infrastructure from a single point," said Steve Buckus, worldwide director of infrastructure, Goodyear.

"HP's comprehensive OpenView management technology is providing us with a solution to manage our infrastructure from a single console, rather than the eight we were juggling before."

In the first phase of the project, Goodyear will implement HP OpenView Operations as the management system for its multi-platform infrastructure leveraging the assistance and expertise of HP.

Phase Il of the project will include the implementation of HP OpenView Operations for the management of Goodyear's NT server community, which includes 250 servers. Goodyear also will add more database monitoring capabilities during this second phase,

"HP is helping Goodyear face today's challenging business climate with an integrated management solution that will seamlessly manage its entire multi-platform infrastructure worldwide," said Jim Grant, general manager, HP OpenView Business Unit.

"Not only will this create greater efficiencies for Goodyear, but they expect to save money using OpenView - very important in this economy. "