Virtualization is poised to become a key enabler of the next dramatic advances in IT business value. Once limited to addressing discrete technology issues, it is now a core strategy that can reach throughout your data center and across your enterprise.

As virtualization’s scope expands, so does its potential for improving business results. Today, you’re “going virtual” to target gains that extend beyond cost-savings and better asset utilization. Gains like increased responsiveness to the business. Higher energy efficiency. Downtime risk mitigation. Tightened security. Business continuity protection.

Realizing this potential means looking to your business services and business results as the drivers and definers of success. It means rethinking applications and operations management, infrastructure barriers and client architectures. It means taking a comprehensive perspective that spans the ramifications of virtualization environment-wide.

HP supports this business-centric approach with a broad portfolio of services encompassing every phase of the virtualization lifecycle.

Which applications and business services should you virtualize? Which tools, governance policies and processes do you need to adapt? How will virtualization affect your physical infrastructure?

HP consultants draw on decades of experience to help you chart a course for virtualization success.

Our Data Center Virtualization Services:

• Assess your environment.
• Evaluate your technical and business challenges.
• Help you plan a custom-tailored virtualization approach.
• Recommend appropriate technologies and solutions.
• Develop detailed implementation roadmaps for applications, server, storage and client virtualization.

What’s the fastest, most cost-effective, least disruptive way to implement your chosen virtualization strategy? Where do you start? How do you integrate virtualization with physical resources already in place? How can you minimize the transition’s impact on your business?

Rely on HP’s virtualization specialists for an efficient deployment that takes the pressure off your people and gets your solution up-and-running right.

HP support services are available for advanced hardware such as the ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade — as well as virtualization software from leading vendors including HP, VMware and Citrix. And HP data center transition services can help ensure successful migration and cutover from your legacy environment to your new virtualization architecture.

How do you improve capacity management? Put underutilized assets to work where the business needs them most? Contain support and administration costs? Integrate management of physical and virtual resources? Keep performance and availability high?

As you rethink operations management in a virtualization context, services from HP can be instrumental to your success. They can help you remove steps and streamline processes — so you can refocus on business priorities rather than technology maintenance and management. They can help you automate service delivery. They can help you improve security and manageability by leveraging virtualization for client infrastructure.

With HP Business Service Management Services, you can gain real-time insight into business process execution and relate this to the impact your technology — virtual as well as physical — has on the business.

HP Virtualization Support Services let you manage your virtual and physical resources in the same way, with global processes, helping to extend virtualization management to the client level.

How do you optimize your virtualized environment to deliver consistent service quality to the business? Fine-tune your day-to-day operations? Enhance your virtualization-specific business processes?

Collaborate with HP to create a culture of continual service improvement. Our business-focused Service Management Services help you acquire the right ITIL and project-management skill sets, target your service improvement initiatives and implement best practices that reduce risk, boost service quality and power positive business results.

Team up with HP to maximize the business value of virtualizing.

At HP, we’ve been at the forefront of virtualization since its inception, training tens of thousands of people and supporting thousands of projects. Today, we’re leveraging this experience to deliver leadership virtualization technologies, services and solutions optimized for better business outcomes.