Greater flexibility and closer alignment between costs and revenues for your consolidated storage environment

A utility approach to storage allows for smoother expansion and contraction of your consolidated environment through flexible capacity, software and technology upgrades. You simply pay a monthly invoice for the actual storage capacity that you use, when you use it. Haven’t yet consolidated your storage? Utility ready storage can balance the risks and capital costs associated with buying and upgrading storage devices and software. This gives clear visibility of the real costs of storage while providing a way for you to:

• Reduce upfront storage acquisition costs
• Improve storage cost predictability
• Increase flexibility – whether your business experiences widely varying or unpredictable storage capacity demands – or your goal is to align storage costs

Rely on proven products and experience

Rely on HP and our proven experience in this area to help you deploy Utility Ready Storage solutions based on:

• Ability to offer utility pricing across a broad range of products, including not only storage but also servers, software, printers and services
• Custom-configured HP StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays storage systems
• Proven experience when it comes to applying utility computing services to real-life business challenges