Maintaining multiple data centers can be costly, inefficient — and even a source of potential risk. Consolidating data center facilities and infrastructure can eliminate expensive redundancies; minimize server, storage and application sprawl; streamline operations; and simplify day-to-day management and maintenance.

HP can help you consolidate multiple local or regional data centers into fewer globalized or centralized facilities, consolidate infrastructure elements within your facilities, and rationalize and migrate applications as part of your consolidation effort.

HP Services can help optimize any or every phase of your consolidation initiative. Our solutions include:

• Data Center Consolidation Strategy — Plan for the right location, number of data centers, and technology capacity and application migration options. Service deliverables include assessment of your current facilities, infrastructure, operations and assets; business case development; and a step-by-step implementation roadmap.
  
  
• Data Center Consolidation Discovery — Gain insight into your total environment and total ownership costs by identifying, mapping and assessing assets across all data center domains including facilities, servers, storage, network and applications.
  
  
• Data Center Consolidation Design — Encompassing buildings, networks, servers, storage devices and applications, as well as organizational and process designs.
  
  
• Data Center Consolidation Transition — Consolidate, relocate and migrate on time, on budget; educate your staff; and ensure a smooth transition to ongoing operations with a fully operational end-to-end solution.

HP has extensive experience in data center consolidation initiatives, both for our enterprise customers and in our own internal operations. We’ve consolidated 85 HP facilities into just 6. And we’ve helped organizations worldwide complete thousands of consolidation projects.