Data Center White Papers

Finding the right cloud solutions for your organization

If you manage technology today, you know the story: everything is mobile, connected, interactive, immediate, and fluid. Expectations are high. On any given day, it's all about service delivery. You need to provide technology-enabled services to your people whenever and wherever they need them-and you need to do it cost-effectively, securely, and quickly. This is one of the driving forces behind the rise in cloud computing. Cloud computing can provide new levels of collaboration, agility, speed, and cost savings for enterprises of any size and type.

HP is driving the evolution of what we call the Instant-On Enterprise. It is an enterprise that embeds technology into everything it does to better serve citizens, partners, employees, and clients. We believe that today's Instant-On Enterprises need to think differently about how they source and deliver services that are enabled by technology. They need to take advantage of a hybrid delivery model-one that truly optimizes the mix between traditional IT, private cloud, and public cloud.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Converged Infrastructure for Dummies

As you know, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, and immediate. This is exactly why organizations need a highly agile IT infrastructure in order to keep pace with extreme fluctuations in business demand. This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Measuring the Business Value of CI in the Data Center

One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized data centers. However, IDC finds that expectations for further boosts in IT asset use and operational efficiency often surpass the actual results for a variety of reasons. These problems can quickly overwhelm any hoped-for benefits as the scope of virtual server deployment expands.

HP, a global provider of IT solutions and an early innovator in converged infrastructure systems, provides a complete portfolio of hardware, software, and services for enabling greater/faster deployment of converged infrastructure solutions in data center environments. More important, HP is also delivering the advanced orchestration management software that will make it possible for IT organizations to effectively obtain the maximum business value from these investments.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Seven Priorities for Integrated Network Management - How HP Intelligent Management Center Delivers an Enterprise-class Solution

This white paper describes the major requirements for network management solutions to help the organizations become more profitable, efficient and reliable.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Building Cloud-Optimized Data Center Networks white paper

Enterprises are turning to the Cloud to improve business agility, reduce expenses and accelerate business innovation. Cloud computing redefines the way IT assets are deployed and consumed and dramatically affects the way data center networks are architected and managed. Conventional hierarchical data center networks built to support traditional IT architectures can't meet the security, agility and price/performance requirements of virtualized cloud computing environments. This white paper reviews the impact of cloud computing on data center networks and describes HP's approach to building simpler, more secure and automated networks that fully meet the stringent performance, security, reliability and agility demands of the new data center in the Cloud.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

The Total Economic Impact of the HP 3PAR Storage

Forrester Consulting provides an analysis of four HP 3PAR storage customer implementations to quantify the efficiency and cost savings achieved over legacy storage platforms. On average, HP 3PAR storage customers achieved a 10.4 month payback with a 55 % ROI over a 3-year evaluation period and a significant reduction in CapEx and OpEx over that same period as a result of thin provisioning, maintenance costs avoided and labor productivity gains.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Defining Tier One Storage in the Modern Data Center

This report defines "tier-1" storage in the modern IT world and in the data centers and services that support it. What was a simple environment just a few years ago with mainframes or a few large servers to be supported has evolved into a complex web of virtual machines, clouds, and expanding user expectations -- factors which demand and create flexibility, but do so in a way that pushes a lack of predictability upon the storage infrastructure. Learn what your criteria should be for tier-1 storage.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays

This Magic Quadrant represents vendors that sell into the end-user market with branded midrange and high-end modular disk array storage systems that support block-access protocols. Despite rather gloomy macroeconomic conditions worldwide and ongoing geopolitical unrest in the Middle East, the midrange and high-end modular disk array storage market grew 8.2% from 3Q10 through 2Q11, compared with the same period the year before. Propelled by technological innovation and enhanced scalability, this continued growth in vendor revenue supports the observation that IT executives are willing to invest in modern midrange and high-end modular disk storage systems to improve operational efficiency, to support deployments of virtualized IT infrastructures, and to address the impact of unabated terabyte growth.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

ESG Lab Review: HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software

This ESG Lab review sponsored by HP + Intel documents hands-on testing of HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software's distributed volume.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

IDG Tech Dossier: Converged Storage ~ A Next Gen Storage Strategy for Big Data

Implementing Converged Storage is an evolution and does not require immediate wholesale replacement of current systems. But by putting a plan into place now, enterprises can optimize their current storage investments while building toward a converged future and accruing concomitant benefits along the way. Virtualization and cloud computing can help corporate IT meet these demands by helping it become more flexible and agile. But the ultimate solution is to transform the way IT is delivered. Many enterprises have already started on the journey toward a full IT as a service (ITaaS) model, which HP and Intel aptly call the Instant-On Enterprise.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

How Blade Centers Impact Data Center Management and Agility

This paper examines enterprise adoption of blade servers in the US, UK and China; the benefits of blade server use; and the connection between enterprise data center management and agility goals and blade server use. It reveals that blade servers are highly associated with core infrastructure consolidation and optimization efforts and offer high value to users as a virtualization platform and means of reducing OpEx.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers

The market for blade servers is becoming ever more complex and diverse due to the convergence of related modular form factors, a fast-growing interest in fabric-based infrastructure and the influence of cloud computing on buying behavior. Download the Gartner Magic Quadrant to see how the vendors in blade servers stack up.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Real Fabrics for a Virtual World

Many factors influence what "ideal" approach organizations should take when planning to implement a fabric-based infrastructure policy. This presentation charts the likely evolution of the market for fabric-based infrastructures, to help IT leaders determine the most appropriate vendor approach.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Picking the Right Server solution to solve your Space, Power and Cooling problems

The type of server you install in a data center can have a big impact -- positive or negative -- on the space, power and cooling required. Knowing and choosing the appropriate server type can extend the effective life of your data center, saving millions of dollars, and make room to add new systems.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

How Blade Servers Impact Datacenter Management and Agility

Get help evaluating your next purchases and accelerate the business value of IT as your datacenter continues to evolve. Download this Technical Adoption Profile on How Blade Servers Impact Datacenter Management and Agility from Forrester Research.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

The Cost of Retaining Aging IT Infrastructure

This paper describes HP ProLiant Gen8 servers, the technology on which they are based, and the way they address many of the causes of operational costs found at customer sites. The hardware and software capabilities of the HP servers were designed to be proactive, reducing the effort and knowledge required to run the server systems and leveraging automation to reduce maintenance costs and IT staff costs.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Servers So Intelligent, They Redefine the Service Experience

HP has developed new online and enhanced remote service technologies designed to capitalize on the embedded HP ProLiant Gen8 management and monitoring capabilities. The most notable of these offerings - HP Insight Online - is the industry's first comprehensive, cloud-based management and support solution with a personalized dashboard for monitoring device and support status.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Intelligent Management and Greater Efficiency Throughout the Lifecycle

The new HP ProLiant Gen8 server features capabilities that speed and simplify three critical phases of the server lifecycle: configuration and provisioning, daily operational health monitoring and ongoing updates and maintenance. Download this short paper to learn more.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Explore the Power, Flexibility and Serviceability HP ProLiant DL360p and DL380p Gen8 Servers

The DL360p and DL380p deliver innovative advances in performance, serviceability and lifecycle automation to address the pressing demands of today's data-intensive and virtualized IT environments. Based on the HP ProActive Insight architecture, these intelligent servers can speed provisioning, increase uptime and greatly reduce the time and resources companies expend on server deployment and management.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

5 steps from Scheduler to Enterprise Workload Automation

A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT's ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service.

Sponsor: BMC Software

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