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HP upgrades data centre offerings

posted on 17 March 2008 13:03

Includes storage components

Today HP has added new products and services to its Data Centre Transformation portfolio, including storage-related ones, designed to increase data centre efficiency and lower energy costs.

HP is delivering, it states:-

- A Critical Facilities service focused on consulting, design and assurance.
- Data Centre Consolidation services including design, transition and support services to help customers reduce the number of their facilities.
- Data Center Virtualisation services including new design, support and education services that help customers create a virtual infrastructure from their physical technology assets. This includes virtualisation across servers, storage, networks and applications.
- Insight Dynamics - VSE – the first software to analyse and optimise physical and virtual resources in the same way.
- Operations Orchestration enhancements – new integrations extend comprehensive automation across all physical and virtual infrastructures. By automating manual and error-prone processes across clients, applications, servers, networks, and storage, these integrations help customers better manage and automate business services. Additionally, these enhancements help customers reduce labour costs, increase service availability and meet compliance requirements by providing auditable, standardised processes.
- Adaptive Infrastructure as a Service (AIaaS) – HP AIaaS offers customers access to HP-owned and managed data centres that deliver an optimised platform for Exchange, SAP and other applications.

There is no specific individual storage announcement here. HP is enabling customers to better manage and arrange datacentre components which include storage ones. Ann Livermore, HP's technology solutions group EVP, said: “HP is uniquely qualified to help CIOs dramatically change the way they create, manage and operate their data centres.”