Fast-changing business requirements, stepped-up market pressures, virtualization, new storage-hungry applications and tighter data retention and accessibility requirements bring growing capacity demands. But usage trends are a moving target. On the one hand, you can’t afford to be caught short when demand surges. On the other, overprovisioning and underutilization can be costly.

The success of your strategic business initiatives hinges on your ability to scale storage capacity to meet variable demands and service-level commitments. Meanwhile, your budget is dwindling all the time.

The answer? Acquire storage as a utility service that gives you the flexibility to dial capacity up and down as needed. And pay only for the capacity you use, only when you use it.

HP Utility Ready Storage can help you:

• Improve visibility across your consolidated storage environment
• Align your costs with your actual usage
• Eliminate cycles of overprovisioning and underutilization
• Respond quickly to changing capacity demands
• Short-circuit your storage procurement cycles.

With the HP Utility Ready Storage solution, you select the devices, configuration, capacity, software and services that fit your requirements. We’ll install everything you need at your site, enabling you to maintain control of your consolidated storage infrastructure.

There’s no need for large upfront capital investments. You pay only for the storage you use on a monthly basis. Newly enhanced metering technology gives you environment-wide insight into utilization patterns, measures your actual capacity usage and transmits the information to HP. Proven delivery methodologies automatically increase your onsite capacity as your needs grow.

Your solution can include HP deployment, support and management services to help ensure that your environment is resourced properly and that storage uptime stays high.

HP not only customizes your Utility Ready Storage solution to your specific needs. Acting as your trusted storage partner, we take on the utilization risk, augmenting the base capacity installed at your site with additional buffer capacity but charging you only for your actual usage.

The bottom line: You’ll have the capacity to provide for periods of peak demand — without having to bear the potential costs of overprovisioning.

HP Utility Ready Storage can help accelerate your organization’s transition from technology maintainer to business service provider.

The solution’s delivery model and management features streamline provision of storage as a service to business units. The model also makes it easy to charge-back for capacity used: the automated metering technology lets you accurately track usage for billing and maintenance of service-level agreements.

As Utility Ready Storage demonstrates, HP understands your needs and specializes in solutions built to help you deliver better business outcomes.

We’ve worked with enterprises worldwide to optimize storage environments, reduce storage costs and streamline storage management. Unlike many competitors, we have the expertise and resources to help support, optimize and manage not just your storage environment but your entire technology infrastructure — servers, networks, desktops, software and more.