Maintaining multiple data centres can be costly, inefficient – and even a source of potential risk. Consolidating data centre facilities and infrastructure can eliminate expensive redundancies; minimise 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 centres into fewer globalised or centralised facilities, consolidate infrastructure elements within your facilities, and rationalise and migrate applications as part of your consolidation effort.

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

• Data Centre Consolidation Strategy – Plan for the right location, number of data centres 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 Centre Consolidation Discovery – Gain insight into your total environment and total ownership costs by identifying, mapping and assessing assets across all data centre domains including facilities, servers, storage, network and applications.
  
  
• Data Centre Consolidation Design – Encompassing buildings, networks, servers, storage devices and applications, as well as organisational and process designs.
  
  
• Data Centre 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 centre consolidation initiatives, both for our enterprise customers and in our own internal operations. We have consolidated 85 HP facilities into just 6. We have also helped organisations worldwide complete thousands of consolidation projects.