Consolidating your storage systems, platforms and applications can help you ease manageability. Improve capacity utilization. Pool and share data stores across your enterprise. Devote more of your resources to driving innovation. And gain the agility you need to capitalize on change.
HP takes a holistic approach to storage consolidation. We evaluate the potential business and financial advantages this strategy offers your organization. We focus not only on technology but on the people and processes that are crucial to your consolidation initiative. We address not only your storage environment but related issues spanning your network, servers and software as well.
HP’s comprehensive consolidation methodology includes:
- Needs and opportunity assessment — Prioritize objectives for your consolidation effort; explore your specific success criteria.
- Architectural planning and documentation — Develop a detailed plan based on your business and IT strategy and current technology trends.
- Investment justification — TCO and ROI modeling tools, readiness analysis and data-gathering methodologies help you build your business case.
- Detailed design — HP Services professionals engineer the configurations and technologies for your consolidated environment and create complete transition plans.
- Implementation — Streamline deployment and applications and data migration.
- Management and evolution — HP can help you self-manage or provide comprehensive or selective outsourcing support .
HP has performed consolidations for thousands of customers worldwide, gaining the experience and expertise to help you accelerate your time-to-benefits and maximize your results. Long-standing alliances with technology leaders like Microsoft, Oracle and SAP complement our own capabilities with application-specific knowledge and know-how.
