Is IT sprawl driving your business to a breaking point?...
Introducing HP Converged Infrastructure.
Reduce the amount you are spending on IT operations and create an IT environment that can flex with business demands at the same time as releasing budget that can then add to your IT capabilities in the business. If you are like most companies, you have been adding servers, storage, and networking devices to keep pace with your business demands. The result: Businesses are spending upwards of 70% of their IT budget on operations versus innovation – and it’s only getting worse. A Converged Infrastructure enables you to rebalance this ratio by realigning today’s traditional technology silos into adaptive pools that can be shared by any application, optimised and managed as a service.
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Today, just 30% of the IT budget is dedicated to business innovation, and the rest to just keep the lights on. This is because the proliferation of IT sprawl has created technology silos in the datacentre that consume up to 70% of the technology budget for maintenance and operations.
By transitioning away from this product-centric approach that has created unyielding IT sprawl to a shared-service management model, you can accelerate standardisation, reduce operational costs and accelerate business results:
Deliver any application, anywhere, on the fly
Flex resources on demand in an optimised way
Unleash productivity of administrators and systems
Provide predictable, continuity of service
Accelerate time to business value from IT investments
What we hear and why you should be interested in HP Converged Infrastructure
Skyrocketing operating and management costs; running out of power to run and cool datacenters Need more powerful systems to take full advantage of application upgrades Transforming IT infrastructure and processes, implementing ITSM and/or shared services Integrating infrastructure as a result of a merger or acquisition Accelerating and improving delivery on service level agreements; managing organic/inorganic growth Limited datacentre space; implementing server consolidation or server virtualisation, or client virtualisation Improving business continuity and accelerate disaster recovery through automation Moving off of legacy servers and want to cut costs with an industry-standard platform Complying with regulations or corporate governance mandates.
Everyday Higher Availability
Dynamic Infrastructure Provisioning
Energy-Aware Planning
Match the Supply of IT Resources with the demand from the business.
The HP Converged Infrastructure strategy, portfolio, and unique and proven architectural framework helps you effectively align IT supply to better meet business demand. This is achieved by creating an environment in which resources are dynamically provisioned efficiently and automatically. Based on modular system design and open standards, you can take your current investments into the future at your own pace. And by transitioning away from the traditional, product-centric approach to a model that manages IT infrastructure as a service, you can accelerate standardisation, reduce operational costs and deliver better business results.
Achieving the benefits of a converged infrastructure requires the following core attributes:
Virtualised pools of servers, storage, networking Resiliency built into the hardware, software, and operating environment Orchestration through highly automated resources to deliver an application aligned according to policies Optimised to support widely changing workloads and different applications and usage models Modular components built on open standards to more easily upgrade systems and scale capacity.
So what’s in the Converged Infrastructure Portfolio?
The HP Converged Infrastructure is split up tin to four elements;
In addition to the portfolio, HP Blade System Matrix is a converged infrastructure platform designed to simplify the deployment of applications and business services.
The HP approach to the Infrastructure Operating Environment focuses on the automation of infrastructure lifecycle management. It optimises and automates the management of the resource pools and the IT roles associated with provisioning and consuming resources from these pools, while operating in compliance with core business, security, and regulatory policies.
This approach radically changes how an organisation can manage IT in a more optimised and efficient way.
What are the components?
HP Insight Dynamics: An integrated command centre that enables you to continuously analyse and optimise your converged infrastructure. HP Insight Dynamics provides the advanced management and automated provisioning capabilities at the core of HP BladeSystem Matrix.
HP Insight Control: Essential server management that unlocks the management capabilities built into your HP ProLiant servers. Insight Control delivers powerful capabilities that enable you to proactively manage ProLiant server health - whether physical or virtual, deploy ProLiant servers quickly, optimise power consumption, and control ProLiant servers from anywhere.
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager: Centralises network connection management and workload mobility for thousands of HP BladeSystem servers that use Virtual Connect to access LANs and SANs, helping organisations increase productivity, respond faster to workload and infrastructure changes, and reduce operating costs.
What’s the Benefit?
HP Infrastructure Operating Environment transforms today’s highly customised manual processes and tools unique to each application and component into a shared, standardised environment that accelerates time to service delivery with high quality, while optimising resource utilisation and on-going operations. It enables your organisation to:
Provision infrastructure service in minutes Optimise infrastructure confidently Protect continuity of services.
Network teams are faced with a race to build out datacentre network capacity and to effectively provision connectivity at an increasing speed. To keep pace, IT organisations need a network architecture that is more coherent, flexible, and agile.
With FlexFabric, HP is creating a new balance by combining the best standards-based networking technologies with a new modular architecture that optimises the full range of virtualisation capabilities while meeting business requirements for both low total cost of ownership, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for IT governance and compliance.
How it works:
HP FlexFabric can connect 1000’s of servers to a virtualised, high performance, low-latency, multi-protocol network. With network intelligence closer to the server edge, FlexFabric dramatically simplifies today’s hierarchical and inflexible network designs and improves performance and utilisation. This network fabric is pre-provisioned and staged for on-demand enablement. Administrators make this resource available by pre-defining a range of connection-based services, which are deployed to server or virtual machines on-demand to match specific performance requirements. Connections are automatically migrated as servers or virtual machines are moved. This unique, “design-once, replicate many” approach enables customers to easily adapt connections and performance to deliver network as a service and meet changes in workload demand.
What are the Benefits?
Improved business agility: faster time to service and higher resource utilisation through dynamic enablement of pre-provisioned network resources that match end-user and business demands.
Predictable performance: support for the most demanding application workloads with modular scalability that connects thousands of server and storage devices in a flat, converged fabric design
Breakthrough cost structures: reduced capital and operational costs with assured investment protection by way of simplified and consolidated server, storage and network connectivity using industry-standard building blocks.
HP Virtual Resource Pools are created from purpose-built systems able to create adaptive, shared capacity that can be combined, divided and repurposed to match any application demand faster and more efficiently.
Individual systems can be carved up or aggregated together to present a large pool that can be optimised for a variety of applications.
This enables customers to meet the unique, dynamic requirements of a Converged Infrastructure and shared-services model by maximising the scalability, flexibility and utilisation of resources.
For the first time, businesses will be able to support a shared-service model with a common pool of adaptive, virtualised resources based on standards that can be can be optimised for all types of enterprise, cloud, and HPC applications.
Based on 25+ years of leadership in adaptive IT systems, HP will accelerate the creation of virtual resource pools by converging the capabilities of bladed, mission critical and scale-out systems across the ProLiant, Integrity, StorageWorks and ProCurve portfolios.
What are the Benefits?
Increases total utilisation by freeing and repurposing trapped capacity to support applications Ensures resiliency and flexibility to support any application on any resource Accelerates standardisation to enable higher levels of automation and increase productivity Protects investments through simplified integration with existing systems, upgrades to new capabilities and scalability to meet future demand Fully orchestrated by IOE - creating virtual pools of resources and orchestrating those pools collectively we are removing the silos of dedicated management and skill set which raise costs and complexity.
The HP Data Center Smart Grid creates an intelligent, energy-aware environment across IT and facilities to optimise and reduce energy use, reclaiming facility capacity and reducing energy costs.
For the first time, businesses can accurately visualise and control datacentre energy use and environmental impact in real-time across the entire datacentre, enabling them to take action based on accurate data to maximise datacentre capacity and reduce operating and capital expense.
What are the Benefits?
Increase datacentre capacity & lifespan Reduce costs required to power and cool IT Improves reliability by optimising IT efficiency Provide insight and control over energy
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Achieving the benefits of a converged infrastructure requires the following core attributes:
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