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. 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.

HP’s Converged Cloud combines private cloud, managed cloud and public cloud with traditional IT infrastructures to deliver an experience built around a customer-focused set of principles:

Provide 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

Provide confidence in the solution

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

Provide 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.

Every enterprise is on a journey with cloud. HP Cloud Consulting and Implementation and HP Cloud Services helps guide your journey by providing the strategy, planning, design, implementation and support services for your business to achieve its optimal position in the emerging cloud environment.

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

Integrated Solutions: HP CloudSystem is the industry’s most complete and integrated cloud solution allowing enterprises and service providers to build and manage services across on-premise, public and hybrid environments. Based on proven HP Cloud Service Automation and Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudSystem combines servers, storage and networking together with an integrated approach to automate the application to the infrastructure lifecycle. We offer a complete portfolio of HP CloudSystem offerings to address all deployment models (build your cloud, managed cloud and public clouds) with an upgrade path for growth and expansion.

Content: HP Cloud Maps Solutions provide the fastest way to build application and service catalogs, delivering optimized performance and service levels for cloud environments. HP Cloud Maps condense thousands of hours of testing and development into the industry’s only pre-packaged and customizable application and infrastructure designs for cloud.

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.

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 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