Hewlett-Packard Enterprise recently launched the HP Hybrid Delivery service solutions, a new suite of products and services that allow companies to maximise cloud computing and meet required levels of security, performance and availability. Andrè Camilleri visited the HP Invent Centre in Geneva for the launch of the HP Instant-On Enterprise
HP is the only IT company that provides all-in-one services and solutions for enterprise level companies. From helping clients determine whether they need a private, public or hybrid cloud, to building the cloud architecture and even managing and securing the system, HP provides all these to its clients.
HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute offers clients secure processing capacity that can rapidly adjust to meet their specific enterprise needs. This service bundles server, storage, network and security resources to clients who only pay for what they need to run in core applications and processes. Delivered by HP Enterprise Services’ state-of-the-art commercial data centres, clients can operate in confidence knowing that strict security and privacy policies are in place.
As part of HP’s Hybrid delivery, Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute is a key solution in helping clients become an Instant-On Enterprise. Rather than purchase, deploy and maintain the equipment needed to run an IT department, clients can use the cloud to flexibly secure technology resources without the capital investment or burden of procurement and installation.
Recent HP research indicates that business, government and technology executives believe that by 2015, 46 per cent of their IT delivery will be through private and public clouds. The anticipated adoption will create hybrid delivery environments with cloud services being securely integrated into technology services environments.
Running on an HP Converged Infrastructure, HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute improves application availability by leveraging the pooling of hardware and software resources to meet business needs. Applications that support critical business functions, such as supply-chain databases, e-mail and sales portals, can scale rapidly in response to changing volumes and peak processing requirements. By speeding access to best in class resources, clients can drive innovation by bringing new solutions to market faster without the typical lengthy capital acquisition and systems deployment processes they often face.
Leading enterprises know there is no singular model of delivery that can be optimised to meet all core service needs and therefore hybrid environments will exist for the foreseeable future. HP helps clients pick the right service delivery model that makes the most sense for their environment. HP Cloud Services, as part of HP Hybrid Delivery helps clients build, manage, secure and consume services using the delivery model appropriate for them.
HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute is available in February in Europe. Pricing is based on the volume of services consumed and the length of client commitment.
Building a hybrid environment that enables choice
HP enables businesses and governments to build a hybrid environment that enables choice in delivery models without adding complexity. HP helps clients:
Build on-premises
cloud services
Deliver more value to your business. Cloud computing is a smart way to deliver IT services to your employees, customers and partners. Building a hybrid delivery environment lets you increase agility while maintaining control and security.
You can deliver cloud solutions using applications and infrastructure as a service with the same quality and agility external providers offer you. With standardisation and automation, you increase utilisation and reduce costs. And you take months off the time to respond to new requests. That lets you provide more of the services your enterprise needs.
Consume off-premises
service securely
A hybrid delivery strategy lets you focus on the applications that are critical to your organisation. HP focuses on the availability, performance and security of the underlying infrastructure. And we provide the mission-critical applications every enterprise needs.
For example, HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute provides bundles of servers, storage, network and security as a service. And HP provides applications, from Microsoft Dynamics CRM to industry-specific solutions and workplace services.
That gives you the best of both worlds − security and control with unbounded capacity when the business calls for it. And since you pay only for what you use, you can match cost to actual need.
Manage and secure across legacy applications and cloud assets
When you become a broker of IT services, IT Service Management takes on two dimensions:
• Management of the special features of the cloud
• Uniform and secure management of the entire service portfolio across the hybrid delivery model
HP cloud management solutions enable the features that make a service a cloud service − from the service catalogue that lets users select and order services to automated deployment of the infrastructure to fulfil service orders.
They also provide integrated control of all your services − private cloud, public cloud and traditional IT − across the service lifecycle. They help you identify service demand and determine the optimal portfolio of services to meet it. They test applications for cloud readiness, monitor them and their underlying infrastructure to ensure service health, and make sure your hybrid IT environment is secure from cyber attack. And they provide the data you need for continual improvement of your IT services.
Transform legacy
infrastructure and application
Like any journey, the journey to cloud computing requires strategy, planning and a roadmap. You may be ready to become a service provider for your internal and external customers. But technology silos, inflexible applications and inadequate security can block your path. More importantly, lack of alignment between IT and the enterprise goals can inhibit your success. To achieve a hybrid delivery model, you must transform infrastructure, applications and IT processes to be cloud ready.
HP consulting services for cloud transformation help you explore what cloud computing could mean to your enterprise. You will identify clear steps toward transforming the way your organisation thinks and works. HP highlights key success factors such as cloud security needs and shows how to address them. It identifies sort and long-term opportunities and establishes a roadmap that begins with the first steps and leads wherever you need to go.
With proper preparation you achieve results early. And you lay the foundation for the long-term benefits offered by hybrid delivery of IT services.
HP’s new hybrid cloud packages
HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute: This is designed for specified levels of performance, uptime, security and privacy. It makes bundles of server, storage, network and security resources available to be consumed as a service; no new hardware is required off the top, but with services expansion, that could change.
HP CloudSystem: This cloud offering runs on HP’s Cloud Service Automation and BladeSystem Matrix products, so you need to buy HP servers to deploy it. CloudSystem’s No. 1 feature is broad application support.
HP Cloud Service Automation: Announced in 2010, this is a core management stack for private and public cloud environments. It enables enterprises to manage cloud services with one-touch provisioning and monitoring. It, too, requires an HP server or servers.
HP CloudMaps: These are templates that help automate the provisioning and automation of the above products and services.
HP Cloud Discovery Workshop: Also announced in 2010, this service helps enterprises develop a holistic cloud strategy. The workshop is enhanced with a focus in cloud economics, applications and cloud security in addition to topics around transformation journey, cloud concepts, service portfolio, governance, organisation and cloud infrastructure.