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Enterprise Services for Cloud Computing

Flexibly support your hybrid delivery environment

Keep pace
Your enterprise depends on technology more every day. It is core to the way your work gets done, and its how you manage an overwhelming influx of information and data. Because of this, you need easy-to-use, flexible, and accessible tools to move your organization forward. But budgets and fiscal restraints make it increasingly difficult to get there. Just keeping pace with maintenance and upgrades seems to consume too many resources and tie up capital. You have little left over for much-needed innovation, or to apply technology in a way that focuses on business goals and outcomes.

This new strategic role means theres the opportunityand the expectationfor you to make choices that drive even more value for your enterprise. You can do this by applying any collection of cloud services when and where they make sense. You can also change the mix of services over time to support changing business needs. One IT services company can help you navigate and leverage these choices better than anyone in the industry. HP has the expert knowledge, proven methodologies, and global resources to deliver enterprise-grade cloud services that improve the way you work and flexibly support your hybrid delivery environment. We can support your success, no matter what paths you take.

Choose your own path to the cloud

One way to move away from this overinvestment in rigid, legacybased IT is a move toward cloud-based serviceshighly scalable, technology-enabled IT services that are easily consumed over a network as needed. Its no longer hype; its a realistic way to free up capital and make your technology environment respond efficiently to meet dynamic user and business demands. If youre an IT executive, youve likely been considering different types of cloud deliveryprivate cloud, managed cloud, public cloudand how to implement them alongside traditional IT services. Your strategic role has expanded, positioning you as the builder and broker of services in your hybrid delivery world.

Meet your toughest business challenges

We know that as large enterprises move to a cloud environment, they demand more than fast provisioning. They have specialized needs including extremely reliable, consistent services that are backed by high levels of availability and security. HP can help you get there through our Enterprise Services for Cloud Computing. Its a full, growing family of cloud services designed for enterprise-grade workloads. This includes expert services to transform your IT environment to take advantage of the cloudas well as various infrastructure, software, and platform-as-a-service options you can consume.

These services complement other HP offerings, together forming the broadest set of cloud solutions in the market based on our Converged Cloud strategy across the four domainsbuild, manage, secure, and consumevital for hybrid delivery success. (See sidebar.) This full stack of services is flexible and modular. You can build cloud into your hybrid delivery environment over timeat a pace thats right for your organization. Through our collaborative style, well deliver the right mix of services to help you address key business challenges:

Improved agility and efficiency

HP drives agility by enabling you to quickly align IT capacity with changing business demands. You improve data use and pay only for what you need, when you need it. You eliminate the need for IT capital allocations; migrate fixed-cost structures to operating expenses; minimize waste and underused IT resources via virtualized and shared resources; and eliminate unnecessary internal support, data center space, and maintenance expense.

HP Converged Cloud HP Converged Cloud is the industrys first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio based on a common architecture that enables customers to build, manage, secure, and consume cloud services that span private, managed, and public clouds, as well as traditional IT. HP Converged Cloud is based on open standards and supports multivendor, heterogeneous software and hardware. It is built on industry-leading HP Converged Infrastructure, HP Management & Security, HP Information Management, and OpenStack technologies. By extending the power of the cloud across infrastructure, applications, and information, HP Converged Cloud provides choice, confidence, and consistency. This enables customers to speed innovation, enhance agility, and improve financial management across their organization.

Faster speed to market

Our services give you dynamic, self-service access to consume cloud services in minutes versus months and to rapidly scale to support peak demands. To deliver these results, we employ extensive automation backed by experienced, world-class talent and globally consistent, well-engineered best practices.

Managed risk
Benefit from HPs use of standardized security practices and processes and our careful efforts to protect information assets and processes from threats. All these cloud services are designed for core business applications that require high levels of service performance, availability, continuity, responsiveness, and service quality. You can reduce business risk by partnering with a market leader who uses proven practices and processes for infrastructure and applications management and integration. And you can select where your data is processed to address local privacy regulatory requirements.

Support hybrid sourcing options with our cloud solutions

Transform to cloud
Drawing on our deep applications expertise, we offer professional services to assist you on your transformation journey. HP Applications Transformation to Cloud service helps you determine the cloud suitability of your applications. It helps you understand 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. Heres what we do: Assess each application in your portfolio to determine the best sourcing option. Create an application and infrastructure modernization roadmap to take you into the future. Modernize or port each application to cloud or traditional environments.

Consistent performance
As a trusted advisor, HP works with you to properly plan for and integrate cloud services into your existing systems and applications. We deliver high-quality services consistently around the world by using well-defined and tested processes, extensive automation, and an enterprise-grade global infrastructure. Based on our deep experience managing complex infrastructure and application environments, we have developed a structured modernization approach to transition into the cloud. We also apply careful governance across the lifecycle of your cloud servicesfrom design of the services through workflow automation and how the service is ensured, secured, operated, provisioned, and consumed. Our Enterprise Service Management approach addresses the evolving system integration and management model, as cloud assumes many integration points, supplier interactions, and SLA complexity.

HP Applications Development for CloudWindows Azure includes strategy, application development, and application migration services for the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. You enjoy instant access to resources for development and testing, deployment in minutes, rapid scaling up and down, and pay-forwhat-you-use pricing. HP Government Cloud Consulting Services help government agencies develop a cloud strategy that provides strong security, technology, process, and organizational governance.

Consume the cloud

We also provide a powerful set of managed, virtual private cloud offerings in a flexible consumption model. Our foundational offering, HP Enterprise Cloud ServicesVirtual Private Cloud, provides server, storage, network, and security bundles you consume as a service. HP hosts your workloads on physical or virtual servers in our industry-leading, next-generation data centers. You can easily access the infrastructure and applications you need using the Internet, a virtual private network, or a dedicated circuit. Scale cloud capacity quickly to meet your business needs within a range you define based on your budget. HP Enterprise Cloud ServicesUnified Communications is a comprehensive suite of per seat services that combines voice, multimedia, unified messaging, presence management, mobility, and automation services onto a single unified platform. HP Enterprise Cloud ServicesMessaging is a cost-effective email and personal information management service using the Enterprise Cloud Services infrastructure. HP Enterprise Cloud ServicesCollaboration enables people and teams to connect and collaborate by using Microsoft SharePoint. It provides management expertise and a framework for site administration, site customization, lists, and libraries. HP Enterprise Cloud ServicesReal-Time Collaboration combines an enterprise-ready instant message, presence, and conferencing capability in a single, real-time collaboration solution that is delivered as a service. HP Enterprise Cloud ServicesEnd Point Threat Management provides an integrated set of products incorporating anti-virus, anti-spyware, and personal firewall. HP Enterprise Cloud ServicesVulnerability Scanning proactively scans servers and network devices for vulnerabilities and recommends corrective actions to prevent hackers or disgruntled insiders from exploiting weaknesses. HP Enterprise Cloud ServicesVulnerability Intelligence provides targeted recommendations on newly discovered potential threats that have been identified by vendors or researchers since the last vulnerability scan took place. HP Enterprise Cloud Services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM delivers flexible CRM functionality that enables you to enhance your relationships with customers, citizens, and other stakeholders without significant capital investment or the burden of procuring and deploying the application and related infrastructure.

Paths to hybrid delivery success HP works collaboratively to help you understand, select, and implement the cloud services to meet your individual business challenges. We support your need to source IT services from a combination of traditional and new models to help you: Transform legacy IT operational models to adapt to a service-centric, hybrid delivery model. Build your own private cloud services, providing easy access to self-service resources from a secure, on-premises environment. Consume public or virtual private cloud services over a network, tapping into HPs infrastructure for enterprise-grade security and reduced capital outlay. Manage and secure the entire service portfolio (cloud, traditional, and outsource) effectively with a centralized portal, a performance dashboard, and a hardened security policy framework that protects your environment.
HP Enterprise Cloud Services for SAP Development and Sandbox Solution provides a development environment so that you can evaluate and prototype functionality of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning software via a virtual private cloud. HP Enterprise Cloud Services for SAP CRM Rapid Deployment Solutions, delivered jointly with SAP, provide your organization with the crucial software functionality of the SAP CRM application with essential support for your marketing, sales, and services operations. HP Enterprise Cloud ServicesContinuity provides cost-effective recovery-as-a-service (also known as cloud DR) for recovering traditional IT environments to the cloud. HP Enterprise Cloud ServicesPrivate Cloud provides management services of the markets most complete, integrated, and open cloud platform: HP CloudSystem. HP provides ongoing management and infrastructure lifecycle services for dedicated private clouds with HPs global skilled talent and operational best practices, enabling your IT staff to focus on serving your business, customers, and users.

Build for the cloud

HP Mobile Applications Services include custom, packaged, and hosted client, client/server, and cloud-based application development solutions with support for all leading operating systems.

Get more from the cloud

Cloud services are a vital new tool for achieving organizational business goals and mission success. As part of your hybrid delivery environment, enterprise-grade cloud can help you drive agility, improve resource utilization, and improve speed to market all while managing risk and ensuring consistent, high-quality service performance. HP goes beyond the printers and personal computers that made us one of the worlds largest technology companies. We want to unleash the potential of HPs broad enterprise-grade cloud expertise to make you more successful.

The HP Advantage HP has deployed hundreds of cloud solutions for organizations worldwide. And we have the broadest portfolio of enterprise-class hardware, software, and services in the industry. Our approach is collaborativewe listen to you and work as your partner. This flexibility extends to our open cloud solutions, which enable you to use a variety of technologies and avoid vendor lock-in. We successfully integrate cloud into your hybrid environment by applying our deep transformation expertise, high-quality and globally consistent processes, and proven integration capabilities.

Count on the expertise you need

HP is a trusted ally in helping you navigate and leverage the paradigm shift to cloud-based services, blending the hardware, software, consulting, and managed services expertise to make cloud a viable option for enterprise needs. We work collaboratively to help you understand and select the best cloud services to meet your individual business challenges. HP offers the most comprehensive portfolio for cloud computing from private cloud to managed cloud, to public cloud, and hybrid environmentsserving customers in various segments. We have hundreds of cloud implementations today supporting many of the worlds most trafficked web sites, largest search engines, and leading social media properties. HP brings world-class transformation experience and proven operational excellencebacked by well-defined and tested processesto help you manage complexity and reduce risk. Thats why were known as a leader in mission-critical, enterpriseclass infrastructure, application, and security services for global enterprises and governments: HP has more than 45 years of operational excellence in managing complex IT environments. We manage over 300,000 servers globally in all industries and regions (across all server types: utility, cloud, virtual), including 60,000 virtual machines. We bring deep modernization experience, with 40,000 application developers globally.

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