Converged Cloud Solutions

One-size-fits-all does not fit an enterprise’s needs. Today’s world requires a converged delivery model, sourced across traditional, private and public cloud offerings. A converged cloud strategy provides simplicity, speed, reduced cost and risk, and compliance. HP’s Converged Cloud is a common architectural foundation across traditional IT and private, managed and public clouds.

Your environment. Your way. Agility without compromise.

HP offers the full breadth of converged cloud solutions required by enterprises, service providers, governments, and developers. HP Converged Cloud solutions help you deliver information anywhere, applications anywhere, and infrastructure anywhere for a cloud environment that’s flexible and change-ready — and tailored to your business or agency.

The HP Converged Cloud solution is the industry’s most complete and integrated cloud solution allowing you to build on-premise cloud services and consume off-premise services. With this portfolio, you can:

• Build, manage, and secure a hybrid environment to reap value and mitigate risk, across all models, using integrated solutions such as HP CloudSystem and industry leading components including IT Performance Suite, or Converged Infrastructure
• Consume the right mix of services based your specific service requirements, with Managed Cloud or Public Cloud
• Leverage Professional Services for the best of traditional IT, private, managed, and public cloud environments, including Consulting and implementation; Financing; support and Education

HP Converged Cloud provides you a common architecture across private cloud, managed cloud, and public cloud with traditional IT infrastructures. This provides an experience built around a customer-focused set of principles:

Unparalleled choice

• Open, standards-based integration across traditional infrastructure, build your cloud, managed and public clouds
• Supports multiple hypervisors, operating systems, development environments and heterogeneous infrastructure
• Extensible for partner ecosystem

Confidence in the solution

• Policy-based, model-driven service delivery
• Management & security spans information, applications and infrastructure

Consistency

• Common architecture across all delivery models
• One simple consumption experience across all models

Whatever your model, HP Converged Infrastructure provides the foundation for HP’s Converged Cloud solutions. Leverage your existing infrastructure or augment as needed to support your combination of private, managed and public cloud.

HP Cloud Management and Security solutions are a combination of market-leading software technologies. Employ a lifecycle approach to delivering quality, performance, availability, automation, monitoring, with security and risk management across traditional IT and cloud infrastructure environment.

Our service consultants and technologists have practical and industry expertise to help you develop a fully operational cloud environment to achieve your business goals.

Application Transformation to Cloud Services
Determine the cloud suitability of your applications. Identify what actions you need to take to run your applications in the cloud. This is an essential step in planning the transformation of your application and infrastructure environment.

Cloud Consulting Services
Includes planning, design and implementation services. These services help you understand the technology implications of your cloud strategy as well as the people and process elements.

Cloud Education Services
Train your staff and manage through your cloud convergence.

Datacenter Care Service
Analyze your current state and applications. Plan for your future state with design, deployment and operating processes, while evolving your data center towards converged cloud.

Financing Services
Lower your total cost of ownership and create efficiencies by deploying consistent solutions across your organization both locally and globally.

Together, HP and partner communities CloudAgile, ExpertOne and PartnerOne deliver streamlined and integrated options with an underlying open philosophy.

Fully Integrated and Open Solutions:HP CloudSystem is the most complete, integrated, open platform that enables enterprises and service providers to build and manage services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments. Based on proven, market leading HP Cloud Service Automation and Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudSystem integrates servers, storage, networking, security and management to automate the application to infrastructure lifecycle for hybrid service delivery management. The result is a complete converged cloud solution that lets you gain agility and speed, and allows service providers to drive top-line growth.

HP CloudSystem is tailored for the requirements of enterprises and service providers at various stages of cloud maturity with 3 offerings:

• CloudSystem Matrix
• CloudSystem Enterprise
• CloudSystem Service Provider

As a part of HP’s Converged Cloud architecture, you have a simplified, integrated architecture that is easier to manage and provides flexibility and portability between private, public, and managed clouds.

Accelerate application deployment: With HP Cloud Maps customers can quickly build a comprehensive catalogue of applications for simple deployment with HP CloudSystem and HP Cloud Service Automation. HP Cloud Maps reduces the time to deliver a new application from weeks or months, often to less than one hour. HP Cloud Maps are templates and additional content based on industry leading intellectual property. This results from thousands of hours of development and testing, and decades of close partnerships between HP, our key ISVs, systems integrators (SIs), and customers.

IT Performance Suite: The HP IT Performance Suite is the foundation for the CIO's and IT leadership team's performance system. The Suite features a cascaded optimization system, the industry's deepest and broadest insight into IT-controlled assets, and a secure, comprehensive, operational environment for converged cloud infrastructures built with Cloud Service Automation, Cloud Application Delivery, ArcSight Security, Application Test Management and Tipping Point Intrusion Prevention.

Converged Infrastructure: HP Converged Infrastructure is positioned to deliver any converged cloud workload, anywhere, anytime to "accelerate time to application and business value". You can choose to build your cloud on-premise, outsource it, deploy a cloud environment, or implement a converged cloud model of all three. Built with market-leading ProLiant Generation 8, 3PAR Utility Storage, Peer Motion Storage Federation, FlexNetwork Networking Architecture, HP Virtual Application Networks and Software defined Networking with OpenFlow.

Converged management and security:HP Cloud Management and Security solutions are a combination of market-leading software technologies. Employ a lifecycle approach to delivering quality, performance, availability, automation, and monitoring, with security and risk management across traditional IT and cloud infrastructure environment.

Converged cloud consulting and services: Create a complete cloud environment that achieves your business goals with help from the practical, industry expertise of our consultants and technologists. Our Cloud Consulting Services, Application Transformation to Cloud Services and Datacenter Care Service help you analyze your current state and plan for the future. These services help you design, deploy, and operate, while evolving your data center towards the converged cloud. Train your staff and manage change with our Education Services, and finance your cloud solution with HP Financing Services.

Take advantage of HP’s portfolio of Enterprise Cloud Services, Autonomy Protect and Promote Services and IT Performance Suite Services offerings. Together they provide enterprise class, managed and highly secure cloud solutions designed for enterprise class workloads. We support your business and government infrastructure and applications in a flexible, scalable, automated and globally consistent IT environment.

It is a consumption based model. You do not have to manage your own data center or invest in hardware or software. We can manage your private cloud infrastructure for you in your data center or in HP's data centers. We offer a wide range of modular services so you can form a common IT foundation to meet your changing business demands.

You receive the infrastructure and software as a service without worrying about managing and maintaining the underlying technology. HP delivers on our commitment to operational excellence so you can focus on your core business.

HP Cloud Services enables developers to build the next generation of web applications, and changes the economics of deploying modernized applications.

Whether you’re an independent developer or a Fortune 100 company, you want a cloud environment that gives you the flexibility of choice.

HP Cloud Services deliver an open source-based public cloud infrastructure with business oriented features that address developer needs and meet organizational requirements for workload availability, manageability and portability, while eliminating the constraints of a closed operating environment and vendor lock-in.

HP Cloud Services allow businesses to:

• Accelerate access to new online markets
• Optimize spend across CAPEX and OPEX
• Reduce labor costs/improves resource utilization
• Quickly establish and operationalize new business models

HP Cloud Services give developers:

• A simple and intuitive way to quickly develop applications and accelerate time to code.
• An environment designed with developers in mind – one where they have the freedom to choose their own tools and control the way they access their web-based services.
• Optimal performance in concert with key attributes important to developers: speed, security and ease of use.

Learn more about HP Cloud Services