Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is enhancing security features on the HP-UX operating system for its Integrity line of servers amid growing customer concern about recent network security breaches.

It may be a 20-year-old product but the HP-UX operating system (OS) is still a high priority and plays a key role in Hewlett-Packard’s overall strategy, according to a company executive.

The two server platforms use incompatible versions of HP-UX. The HP 9000s are based on HP’s now-defunct PA-RISC processor, and the newer Integrity servers use Intel Itanium chips. Some customers ...

HP has announced updates to its HP-UX 11i high-end Unix environment designed to extend server uptime, along with enhancements to its Serviceguard technology to improve availability in clustered ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprises’ HP-UX OS has been around for more than 30 years, and users may be looking to move on from the Unix-based OS. Now HPE is offering a way out of the ancient OS using ...

working HP-UX installation The find is the result of a competition, launched by HP in April, to locate the oldest HP-UX installation in continuous service. The server belongs to Oxford University ...

A remotely exploitable buffer overflow has been detected in HP-UX servers running the telnetd remote access daemon, which could crash the server or allow an intruder to gain root access.