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Virtualisation is poised to become a key enabler of the next dramatic advances in IT business value. Once limited to addressing discrete technology issues, it is now a core strategy that can reach throughout your data centre and across your enterprise.

As virtualisation’s scope expands, so does its potential for improving business results. Today, you’re “going virtual” to target gains that extend beyond cost-savings and better asset utilisation. Gains like increased responsiveness to the business. Higher energy efficiency. Downtime risk mitigation. Tightened security. Business continuity protection.

Viewing the virtualisation lifecycle in business terms

Realising this potential means looking to your business services and business results as the drivers and definers of success. It means rethinking applications and operations management, infrastructure barriers and client architectures. It means taking a comprehensive perspective that spans the ramifications of virtualisation environment-wide.

HP supports this business-centric approach with a broad portfolio of services encompassing every phase of the virtualisation lifecycle.

Virtualisation strategy and design

Which applications and business services should you virtualise? Which tools, governance policies and processes do you need to adapt? How will virtualisation affect your physical infrastructure?

HP consultants draw on decades of experience to help you chart a course for virtualisation success.

Our Data Centre Virtualisation Services:

  • Assess your environment.
  • Evaluate your technical and business challenges.
  • Help you plan a custom-tailored virtualisation approach.
  • Recommend appropriate technologies and solutions.
  • Develop detailed implementation roadmaps for applications, server, storage and client virtualisation.

Virtualisation transition

What’s the fastest, most cost-effective, least disruptive way to implement your chosen virtualisation strategy? Where do you start? How do you integrate virtualisation with physical resources already in place? How can you minimise the transition’s impact on your business?

Rely on HP’s virtualisation specialists for an efficient deployment that takes the pressure off your people and gets your solution up-and-running right.

HP support services are available for advanced hardware such as the ProLiant BL495c virtualisation blade — as well as virtualisation software from leading vendors including HP, VMware and Citrix. And HP data centre transition services can help ensure successful migration and cutover from your legacy environment to your new virtualisation architecture.

Virtualisation operation and automation

How do you improve capacity management? Put underutilised assets to work where the business needs them most? Contain support and administration costs? Integrate management of physical and virtual resources? Keep performance and availability high?

As you rethink operations management in a virtualisation context, services from HP can be instrumental to your success. They can help you remove steps and streamline processes — so you can refocus on business priorities rather than technology maintenance and management. They can help you automate service delivery. They can help you improve security and manageability by leveraging virtualisation for client infrastructure.

With HP Business Service Management Services, you can gain real-time insight into business process execution and relate this to the impact your technology — virtual as well as physical — has on the business.

HP Virtualisation Support Services let you manage your virtual and physical resources in the same way, with global processes, helping to extend virtualisation management to the client level. And HP End-User Workplace Services help extend virtualisation management to the client level.

Virtualisation continual improvement

How do you optimise your virtualised environment to deliver consistent service quality to the business? Fine-tune your day-to-day operations? Enhance your virtualisation-specific business processes?

Collaborate with HP to create a culture of continual service improvement. Our business-focused Service Management Services help you acquire the right ITIL and project-management skill sets, target your service improvement initiatives and implement best practices that reduce risk, boost service quality and power positive business results.

Continuity you can count on

Team up with HP to maximise the business value of virtualising.

At HP, we’ve been at the forefront of virtualisation since its inception, training tens of thousands of people and supporting thousands of projects. Today, we’re leveraging this experience to deliver leadership virtualisation technologies, services and solutions optimised for better business outcomes.

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