Collaborate with HP Services to cut storage complexity and costs.
Business growth and technology evolution typically create an IT infrastructure with a mix of diverse solutions, platforms, and products. Organizations and departments select divergent technologies. Mergers and acquisitions bring disparate implementations and resource redundancy.
The result: Key systems become overprovisioned and underutilized. Essential business data is locked up in isolated technology silos. Critical processes become difficult to manage or modify. Availability and service-level commitments become difficult to meet.
IT consolidation — including consolidation of the systems, platforms, and applications within your storage infrastructure — is a smart strategy for addressing these growing problems. Storage consolidation can help you reduce complexity and ease manageability. Realize higher returns on your technology investments by improving utilization rates. Pool and share data stores across your enterprise. Devote more of your human and financial resources to driving innovation. And gain the agility you need to capitalize on change.
A results-oriented, step-by-step approach to consolidation success
HP Services takes a holistic approach to storage consolidation. We evaluate the potential business and financial advantages this strategy offers your organization. We focus not just on technology but on the people and processes that are crucial to your consolidation initiative. We address not only your storage environment — enterprise storage solutions, storage area networks (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS) — but related issues spanning your network, servers, and software as well.
The comprehensive HP consolidation methodology includes:
- Storage consolidation value workshop — HP works with you to bring your IT and business executives together to prioritize objectives for your consolidation effort, explore your specific opportunities and constraints, and agree on measures of success.
- Architectural blueprint — Experienced solution architects develop a detailed plan based on your business and IT strategy, your environment, and current market and technology trends.
- Investment justification — TCO and ROI modeling tools, readiness analysis, and data-gathering methodologies are used to build the business case for consolidation.
- Detailed design — HP technical specialists engineer the configurations and technologies for your consolidated environment based on the architectural blueprint. HP project managers create detailed plans for your transition.
- Implementation — Experienced HP technical consultants work with your teams to ensure your new infrastructure is implemented correctly, applications and data are smoothly migrated, and appropriate tests are conducted before cutover from existing systems.
- Management and evolution — If you manage your consolidated environment in-house, HP can provide ITSM experts to help you continually improve service levels to the business. HP also offers expert managed services for comprehensive or selective outsourcing.
Why choose HP as your IT consolidation partner?
HP is uniquely equipped to meet the full range of your IT consolidation services needs.
We’ve performed consolidations for thousands of customers, gaining the experience and expertise to help you accelerate your time to benefits and maximize your results. We have 400 Solution Architects, 6,000 Technical Architect specialists, and 5,000 dedicated storage professionals in over 175 countries worldwide. And our long-standing alliances with technology leaders like Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and BEA complement our own capabilities with application-specific knowledge and know-how.
Learn more about HP storage consolidation solutions.
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