With thousands of successful cloud deployments, HP has helped clients get the best of a hybrid delivery approach without the complexity. By incorporating both in-house and externally sourced IT services, clients can pick the right method of delivery to effectively meet time-to-market, availability and cost requirements. Yet, security concerns and a lack of internal skills continue to challenge organizations' evolution to the cloud.
Service providers also recognize that a hybrid delivery approach requires new cloud business models that provide consumption and brokerage of technology for their customers in multiple ways. As a result, they need a technology partner that can help them capture this market opportunity.
HP Cloud Solutions, based on HP Converged Infrastructure, provide the hardware, software, services and programs that enable service providers, enterprises and governments to rapidly and securely deliver IT as a service.
"Clients want to understand, plan, build and source for cloud computing in a way that allows them to gain agility, reduce risk, maintain control and ensure security," said Steve Dietch, vice president, Marketing, Cloud Solutions and Infrastructure, HP. "The new offerings are the culmination of HP's experience in delivering innovative technology solutions, as well as providing the services and skills needed to drive this evolution."
HP's new offerings address the key areas of client needs - building differentiated cloud offerings, consuming cloud services from the public domain, and managing, governing and securing the entire environment.
Building a hybrid environment
As organizations work to achieve an agile service-delivery approach, they must develop, deploy, manage and secure IT services across public and private clouds as well as traditional IT delivery models.
HP continues to expand its cloud ecosystem with new partners, offerings and programs:
- New HP CloudSystem integrations with Alcatel-Lucent enable communications
services providers to deliver high-value cloud services using carrier-
class network and IT. The combination of IT infrastructure, software and
telecommunications-grade network lets communications services providers
automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources through a
highly reliable network.
- HP CloudAgile Service Provider Program offers service providers expanded
sales reach, an enhanced services portfolio and an accelerated sales cycle
through direct access to HP's global sales force. HP has expanded the
program with its first European partners and with new certified hosting
options that enable service providers to deliver reliable, secure private
hosted clouds based on HP CloudSystem.
- HP CloudSystem Matrix 7.0, the core operating environment that powers HP
CloudSystem, enables clients to build hybrid clouds with push-button
access to externally sourced cloud-based IT resources with the industry's
first out-of-the-box "bursting capability." This solution also includes
automatic, on-demand provisioning of HP 3PAR storage to reduce errors and
speed deployment of new services to just minutes.
- The comprehensive HP Cloud Protection Program spans people, process,
policies and technologies to deliver a comparable level of security for a
hybrid cloud as a private internet-enabled IT environment would receive.
Addressing one of the biggest hindrances to organizations moving to a
cloud environment, the new program includes comprehensive strategy,
roadmap, design and implementation services built on a common reference
architecture. The program is supported by a Cloud Protection Center of
Excellence that enables clients to test HP solutions as well as partner
and third-party products that support cloud and virtualization protection.
Consuming enterprise-class cloud services
Organizations need rapid and secure sourcing of compute services that quickly flex to peak demands without excess capital expenditures. New and enhanced HP services that provide a cloud infrastructure as a service to address this need include:
- HP Enterprise Cloud Services - Compute now automates distribution of
application workloads across multiple servers to improve application
performance. Clients also can improve data protection through new backup
and restore options while also provisioning and managing additional
virtual local area networks within their cloud environment. A new HP
proof-of-concept program allows clients to evaluate the service for
existing workloads prior to purchase.
- HP Enterprise Cloud Services for SAP Development and Sandbox Solution
enable clients to evaluate and prototype functionality of SAP Enterprise
Resource Planning software via a virtual private cloud, using a flexible,
consumption-based model.
Transforming for the cloud era - closing the cloud skills gap
Clients can use HP guidance and training to transform legacy data centers for cloud computing by improving the skills in their organizations. New HP services that address this need include:
- Three HP ExpertONE certifications - HP ASE Cloud Architect, HP ASE Cloud
Integrator and HP ASE Master Cloud Integrator - which are the first cloud
certifications that encompass business and technical content.
- Expanded HP ExpertONE program includes five of the industry's largest
independent commercial training organizations that deliver HP learning
solutions anywhere in the world. The HP Institute delivers an academic
program for developing HP certified experts through traditional two- and
four-year institutions, while HP Press has expanded self-directed learning
options for clients.
- HP Cloud Curriculum from HP Education Services offers course materials in
multiple languages covering cloud strategies that have successfully
increased enterprise agility and reduced costs. Learning is flexible, with
online virtual labs, self study, classroom, virtual classroom and onsite
training options offered through more than 90 HP education centers
worldwide.
- Driven by HP Financial Services, HP Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Cloud
Roundtables help CFOs understand the benefits and risks associated with
the cloud, while aligning their organizations' technology and financial
roadmaps.
- HP Storage Consulting Services for Cloud, encompassing modernization and
design, enable clients to understand their storage requirements for
private cloud computing as well as develop an architecture that meets
their needs.
- HP Cloud Applications Services for Windows Azure accelerate the
development or migration of applications to the Microsoft Windows® Azure
platform-as-a-service offering.
