Wednesday, 19 March 2008

New HP Offerings to Speed Data Center Transformation

Hewlett Packard (HP) has announced a set of products and services designed to help customers transform their data centers from a standalone collection of physical assets into a virtual and adaptive infrastructure designed to rapidly meet changing business needs.

New research conducted on behalf of HP shows that more than one-third of chief information officers believe that in two to five years their data centers will be unable to meet the rapidly growing demand for business services and applications.

To meet this demand, HP is providing businesses with the technology tools and strategies needed to address top data center initiatives: energy efficiency, automation, virtualization, consolidation and business continuity.

Coupled with HP’s current systems, storage, software and services, the new products and services make up the HP Data Center Transformation portfolio, which enables enterprises to manage and transform their data centers.

“Today customers are facing multiple challenges –the explosion of data, a growing mobile workforce and the need for access to real-time information,” said Uday Kumaraswami, Vice President, Consulting and Integration, HP Services, Technology Solutions Group, APJ.

“HP is uniquely qualified to help CIOs dramatically change the way they create, manage and operate their data centers.”

The additions include new services such as HP Critical Facilities Services, Data Center Consolidation Services, Data Center Virtualization Services and the new HP ProLiant DL785 G5 Server.