Enterprise Cloud Services–Virtual Private Cloud for U.S. Public Sector

HP Enterprise Cloud Services–Virtual Private Cloud (ECS-VPC) for U.S. Public Sector allows government and educational institutions to achieve cloud computing objectives securely and without the hassles of traditional IT sourcing. This offering is designed for mission-critical workloads and provides for high levels of data protection in a flexible, managed cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environment.

ECS-VPC for U.S. Public Sector can help your organization implement a unique cloud strategy to:

• Free you from heavy capital investment
• Comply with FedRAMP moderate security controls
• Reduce operational and unit cost with IaaS – pay only for the resources you use
• Deploy new services quickly
• Improve the quality and resiliency of services
• Comply with new policy and government legislation more readily

This enterprise-class cloud computing service provides flexibility from both a business and technology perspective. Specifically, it offers both on-demand and reservation-based consumption models while supporting both physical and virtual servers across an array of operating systems. All operations are supported by U.S. Citizens within a certified HP data center.

ECS-VPC for U.S. Public Sector enables government to run applications and processes securely while accessing them over a network designed to meet Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Moderate security posture as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). ECS-VPC for U.S. Public Sector will also implement the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) standard baseline set of security controls for authorizing cloud systems.

Additionally, HP services such as the HP Enterprise Cloud Services Portal allow convenient management of the cloud environment by providing full operational visibility into the performance, availability, and configurations through a secured web-based interface.