HP Converged Infrastructure

Delivering the Data Center of the future

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Accelerate your IT to achieve better business results

Overcome IT sprawl.
Align with your business.
Speed time to business results.


Accelerate INNOVATION, CLOUD, and ROI

HP Converged Infrastructure solutions help you overcome the inflexibility and high costs created by IT sprawl to shift more resources to innovation and strategic initiatives. The HP approach and solutions have been designed to help make the data center simpler, more flexible, more efficient and less expensive to operate. Only then is your IT infrastructure positioned to deliver any workload, anywhere, anytime to "accelerate time to application and business value". And do so whether you choose to build it on-premises, outsource it, deploy a cloud environment, or implement a hybrid model of all three.


Making the case for convergence

It's a simple fact that most companies today are dealing with less-than-ideal IT infrastructures driven by an explosion of information, aging hardware, obsolete storage architectures, and a complex network. In effect, these businesses are struggling with rigid and costly IT silos that have forced the majority of their IT budget to be locked in IT operations, fire drills, and activities that just keep the lights on - a phenomenon called IT sprawl.

Making the case for convergence

Infrastructure convergence is widely accepted as the optimal approach for overcoming IT and application sprawl to transform IT into a true business enabler. It does so by establishing a shared services data center environment to simplify and accelerate IT, significantly lower operational costs, shift resources to innovation, and drive business agility. This is why leading analysts support this trend and businesses are embracing it. And with a solid history as a leading technology provider, this is exactly why HP introduced its Converged Infrastructure strategy two years ago.




Accelerate your move forward with HP Converged Systems

HP Converged Systems are turnkey systems that are pre-integrated, tested, and supported to reduce months or even years of planning, procurement and deployment processes into weeks. These solutions have been optimized for your top initiatives around cloud, virtualization, business insight, and collaboration.

Take the fastest path to the Cloud

HP CloudSystem offers a complete, integrated system to build and manage services across public, private, and hybrid clouds. It combines Converged Infrastructure as the foundation with HP Cloud Service Automation software, providing a ready-to-go cloud platform for enterprises and service providers to speed innovation, accelerate business processes, and reduce time to revenue.


Meet the Cloud experts
 

If you're new to Cloud or just nervous, the HP Cloud Advisors represent the best technical and strategic minds in cloud computing today. These leaders represent a range of expertise and are a great resource to help you understand how today's innovations can benefit you while also gaining insight into the future.

Move forward at your own pace and preference

Extracting the full value of infrastructure convergence is all about simplifying and accelerating the provisioning of IT services and applications. This is achieved by optimally integrating servers, storage, networking, security, power, cooling, and facilities into shared pools of interoperable resources – all managed through a common management platform.

Knowing our customers have unique requirements, the HP Converged Infrastructure solution portfolio has been designed to expedite your move forward in two ways — TRANSFORM quickly or EVOLVE at your own pace.

Either path you choose, HP Converged Infrastructure solutions optimize virtualization to increase utilization and flexibility. They are resilient to support mission-critical applications and increase business continuity. They are based on open industry standards to integrate with your existing data center environment and prevent vendor lock-in. They are orchestrated to increase agility and reduce operational costs. And they are modular to scale seamlessly as your business grows.

HP Converged Systems provide the simplest way to transform

  • HP CloudSystem—the industry's most complete 'ready-to-go' cloud solution
  • Virtualization Solutions—including the HP VirtualSystem provide modular systems that maximize virtual server and client performance
  • HP AppSystems—provide best of breed capabilities from data management, reporting, and analytics to connecting your teams to information, customers, partners and each other
  • Rapidly scale your data center with HP Performance Optimized Datacenters (PODs)

HP Converged Systems are turnkey systems that are pre-integrated, tested, and supported to reduce months or even years of planning, procurement and deployment processes into weeks. These solutions are optimized and ready to run from day one for your top initiatives in cloud, virtualization, business insight, and collaboration so you can accelerate your time to application value.

Evolve with technologies designed for convergence

For customers looking to gain ground on IT sprawl, taking a "project-based" approach lets you evolve at your own pace by deploying modular, standards-based technology building blocks— all designed for convergence. For this approach, HP has developed the HP Converged Infrastructure Maturity Model and Reference Architectures to help you accelerate application delivery with foundational technologies that reflect industry standards, leadership, openness, and of course, customer choice. This allows you to maintain optimal protection of your existing investments while getting on the convergence path quickly.

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  • Continental Airlines — Ten-fold improvement in CPU utilization; 18-fold faster server deployment; A 65 percent decrease in time to value on new projects
  • McKesson Corporation — 84-fold faster provisioning of development environments; 42 percent reduction in physical server count; 67 percent less management time required; Projected TCO savings in the millions
  • Steelcase — Performance boost of 25 percent for mission-critical applications; 45 percent increase in utilization of computing resources; 40 percent lower costs
  • Gruppo Mediaset — 30 percent reduction in network switches, cards, and cables; Minutes instead of days for new service installation; Sixfold jump in storage performance; 100 percent payback in six months
  • UPS — Reduced server count by over 1,000 physical servers over two years; Time to provision servers cut from days or weeks to just minutes or hours; Accommodate a 67 percent increase in workload during the peak holiday season, and double the typical volume of package tracking
  • Hostworks — HP CloudSystem Matrix provides the platform for an agile, scalable computer facility; Simpler and speedier delivery of new services to meet consumer demand

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