HP has expanded its portfolio of virtualisation services with a new offering that helps enterprise customers virtualise their entire IT infrastructures – from the desktop to the data centre – enabling automated, 24x7, lights-out computing.

Additionally, the company has broadened its distribution efforts by making the HP Care Pack Service newly available through select HP channel partners.

The HP Care Pack Service is a part of HP Virtualisation Assessment Services, which enable customers to make more efficient use of underutilized IT assets, reduce data centre operating costs and minimize risks associated with infrastructure changes.

HP has been helping customers virtualise their environments for many years, by collecting utilization data for servers, storage and desktops from both HP and other vendors at the customer’s site over a three- to four-week period.

HP Services professionals then make recommendations on how to best consolidate and virtualise their environment. Using these recommendations, customers can elect to consolidate existing server workloads onto HP Integrity, ProLiant and BladeSystem servers.

More information about HP’s virtualization offerings is available at www.hp.com/go/virtualization