Data center success strategy

In the new era of business technology, your enterprise looks to IT to drive innovation, competitive differentiation and marketplace success.

Nowhere are these stepped-up expectations more evident than in the data center, which is becoming an increasingly crucial component of your overall business operations. And nowhere are the heightened stresses that virtually every IT organization is laboring under felt more acutely than across the data center environment.

The stresses are magnified by the accelerating IT resource realignment that stems from today’s business technology focus. To provide strategic business services and drive favorable business outcomes, IT professionals are being redeployed from maintenance and management to activities that power growth, innovation and competitive advantage.

This migration of key technical resources is spawning a potentially critical shortage of the knowledge and know-how required for data center upgrade initiatives and day-to-day IT operations. Yet these tasks remain essential to successful business service delivery.

HP offers a rich portfolio of services and an efficient sourcing model designed to complement your IT capabilities and alleviate the impact of resource realignment. HP Data Center Services comprise targeted engagements and resources that provide:

• Variable access to project-specific know-how for initiatives such as migrations and deployments
• Variable access to IT operations and optimization skills and expertise
• Improvement-focused assessments in areas from ITSM to security and performance optimization to energy efficiency

As your technical expertise is redirected to value-added activities that drive better business outcomes, these proven HP service offerings enable you to supplement it as needed.

The result? You enjoy new levels of flexibility and agility to cope with today’s ramped-up pressures and demands. And you substantially lessen your need for staff resources dedicated to infrastructure implementation, management, operation and improvement.

Put the right skills and resources in the right place at the right time with expert assistance from HP in areas such as server, storage, software and network operations.

You can rely on best practices-based HP operations services when increased SLA requirements and technology change add new levels of operations complexity. When you find that your skillsets are confined within narrow technology silos. When capacity demands and IT sprawl make budget management difficult. When you need to do more with fewer resources.

Service options range from capacity planning, system design and solution configuration to performance tuning, cluster consistency assurance and resilience and availability enhancement.

Draw on HP Services expertise as required to assess your existing data center capabilities and set the stage for improving strategic performance.

We can provide assessments and recommendations for upgrading your service management processes and practices. Addressing risks and inefficiencies across your physical data center facility. Reducing your exposure to security threats. Planning for improved capacity utilization environment-wide. And cutting data center energy consumption and costs while you maximize facility utilization through optimized power and cooling strategies.

HP has been delivering data center facilities and infrastructure services for more than four decades. We offer proven methodologies and best practices, strong partnerships with industry leaders, and a broad, deep services portfolio delivered through a collaborative approach that puts your needs first.

With some 65,000 service professionals in 170 countries, we can help you overcome your data center challenges wherever and whenever they arise.

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