HP

Overview

HP brings a range of products and services to market for customers who want to take advantage of cloud computing. They offer distinct solution sets for Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

HP has on-demand software and professional services an organization can use to deploy and manage private, public, and hybrid clouds. They also have the back-end infrastructure services to enable compute and storage capacity on-demand. Their infrastructure technology enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Service Providers (SPs) to deliver cloud-based services to their end-user customers.

Value Proposition

HP provides foundational and enabling technologies and services that enable organizations to source, deliver, and govern a hybrid environment of technology-enabled services. HP products and services provide a service-ready Adaptive Infrastructure for in-house, outsourced and cloud environments. Customers rely on an centralized HP infrastructure utility for compute capacity that matches their changing needs.

Products & Services

• Cloud Enablement Technologies:
  • Adaptive Infrastructure - includes servers, storage, and services to help companies tranform their data center into shared pools of IT assets for greater agility and cost effectiveness.
  • Massive scale out with BladeSystem, StorageWorks, and Rack-mount servers designed for scale, delivering maximum performance, combined with extreme density and power efficiency.
  • Virtualization helps deliver application services more quickly, put unused data center capacity to work on business priorities, and enhance availability, continuity, and security.
  • Service Delivery Platform - a standards-based service-oriented architecture that rapidly and cost effectively integrates and manages converged voice, data, and content services.
• Infrastructure as a Service:
  • HP Utility Computing Services - includes cost-saving PC, server, storage, mail and messaging, and print utilities; centralized data center infrastructure provisioning; and state-of-the-art distributed grid technologies.
  • Adaptive Infrastructure as a Service provides customers with access to additional infrastructure in a matter of hours for their compute-intensive needs. Initial offerings for Microsoft Exchange, SAP, and other business applications.
• HP Software and Services Management:
  • HP Software as a Service delivers the suite of HP Business Technology Optimization solutions via the Software as a Service delivery model.
  • HP Cloud Assure helps customers validate the security, performance, and availability of cloud services without putting software or agents on the network or servers.
  • Service Management Services helps transform the IT department into a services-driven organization.
  • HP SOA Center helps companies effectively adopt SOA and scale from project to enteprise deployment.