Asia-Pacific Cloud demand highlights HP new service accelerates corporate cloud change

To help service providers and businesses in Asia-Pacific and Japan, where cloud computing needs most prominently, reduce it risk and cost and deliver cloud services flexibly, on October 18, Hewlett-Packard unveiled the latest initiative to accelerate customer cloud change in Singapore, offering new services and solutions based on converged infrastructure, These include data center technical advisory services, HP Cloudsystem projects with financing and experience services, and a new turnkey hp Virtualsystem for Microsoft, HP Virtualsystem for Superdome 2/ HP-UX solution.

It is reported that the current HP cloud services and solutions in telecommunications, education, web hosting services and other industries to achieve deployment and application. In the telecommunications industry, for example, the public cloud service providers such as telecommunications operators to build a cloud platform not only want to reduce it operating costs, but also want to provide their customers with paid cloud services, this is the cloud architecture security, flexibility, scalability, and so put forward higher requirements.

"HP cloud services and infrastructure are safe, agile, and sophisticated, which is one of the major reasons we chose HP as a cloud service provider," said Alvin Kok, director of telecommunications information and communications services in Singapore. Singapore Telecom not only with a number of customers to establish a sustainable and cost-effective cooperative relations, and changed the traditional "pipeline sales" business model, to the Intelligent pipeline transformation has laid a useful foundation. ”

More than half of Chinese companies will prefer cloud architecture

Compared with mature markets such as Europe and the United States, the Asia-Pacific and Japan regions have more potential for cloud architecture and service deployment, which is closely related to recent developments in the economic, social and technical fields.

On the macroeconomic front, the Asia-Pacific and Japan regions are now growing faster than Western countries. In China, for example, according to HP's latest data, by 2020 China will be the world's highest-ranked country with the world's second-largest economy and become America's biggest lender.

In terms of social conditions, according to HP data, the Asia-Pacific and Japan regions have an annual population of about 60 million, and seven-tenths of the world's most densely populated cities are from Asia, and young users in Asia Pacific and Japan are expected to lead a new wave of global social unrest as more and more young people are born.

In addition, the new features of the Asia-Pacific region and Japan in the area of technological change are encouraging. The number of online users in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan is about 1.8 billion per cent, and it investments in virtualization and cloud computing are growing in the region's corporate customers, most prominently in the virtualization need. According to HP, about One-fourth of global IT companies ' revenue comes from the region.

"For customers in Asia Pacific and Japan, it hopes to develop new business models, global competitiveness, cross-regional and cross-border development over the next few years, which requires its IT infrastructure to increase market responsiveness, business sensitivity, operational efficiencies, and scalability." "Hewlett-Packard Senior vice president and Enterprise server, storage and Network division, acting general manager Wolfgang Wittmer said.

Now, according to Forrester Research, a market research firm, the Asia-Pacific and Japan regions have become the most demanding areas for converged cloud architectures, with 58% of respondents in China saying they will give priority to cloud architecture, compared with 32% in Europe. "Because the European and American Enterprise customer's IT architecture is more mature, its migration to the cloud platform is more difficult and more resistance, while the Asia-Pacific and Japan region is just the opposite, many enterprises in the establishment of the beginning began to consider the use of cloud architecture." Wolfgang Wittmer said.

7:3 law is still not broken

While there is a significant demand for cloud architectures, at present, the technology islands, extensive complexity, and enterprise behavior inertia in the IT field are increasingly hindering enterprise migration to the cloud architecture. According to the IDC survey, there are still a large number of enterprises have to use it budget 70% for hardware maintenance, software updates and other IT operations, and the cost of it innovation is only 30%.

As a global provider of end-to-end cloud services and solutions, HP believes that customer adoption of the appropriate cloud strategy is the key to success, HP is committed to helping users reduce it operational costs, but also to enhance the user deployment cloud platform speed, security, operational efficiency and scalability.

Based on this, HP recently launched a new cloud services and solutions, including data center technical advisory services, HP Cloudsystem project and HP Virtualsystem for Microsoft, HP Virtualsystem for Superdome 2 /hp-ux Solutions.

Among them, HP for the data center of the technical advisory services to the customer Cloud data center planning, design and construction links to speed up 40%, while promoting the customer IT department, facility Operations and Business unit integration; The extended HP Cloudsystem includes financing, services, Developer Resources and 100 of the world's top cloud centers (50 in Asia Pacific and Japan) that enable customers to experience HP Cloudsystem while HP Virtualsystem for Microsoft and HP Virtualsystem for Superdome 2/hp-ux is a new turnkey hardware and software solution that enables users to quickly deploy highly optimized, fully tested virtualized applications.

"Customers need us to provide sophisticated methodologies and solutions based on HP's converged infrastructure to help them accelerate their transition to the cloud environment in order to enhance innovation and better serve customers in the marketplace," said Dave Donatelli, general manager of HP Global Executive vice president and server, storage and networking products. Our new product is a clear indication of HP's technology and ability to help push customer transformation, while helping customers reduce complexity, cost, and risk. ”

IDC: Potential and problems coexist

For enterprise customers, data centers are an important part of the cloud infrastructure. At present, the Asia-Pacific and Japan market has ushered in a data center construction boom. China, for example, predicts that China will become the world's second-largest data center market by 2012, and that, in 2010-2014 years, China's data center is expected to double its annual construction capacity.

While the numbers are growing, there are still many problems with the data centers of business customers in Asia Pacific and Japan: 75% of data centers have been in use for more than 7 years, too old; IT infrastructure cannot adapt to the needs of new business and enterprise IT departments need to reassess and select appropriate data center policies.

To address these issues, HP has released data center technical advisory services to help users address data center strategy, operations, and continuity issues with professional skills, guidance, and maturity.

Among them, HP Data Center Strategic Services can achieve planning, design and build process synchronization, so that the user's cloud transition time reduced by 40%; HP Data Center operations services can help customers improve infrastructure consolidation and facility planning design and construction, reducing the cost of equipment life cycle by 37% and HP Data Center continuity services can help service providers anticipate equipment and IT infrastructure failures in advance.

To reduce the threshold of first entry by financing

At the same time, HP's new Cloudsystem is ideal for businesses and service providers that want to provide private and public cloud services, from computing to software as a service. With HP Cloudsystem, customers can deploy new cloud services in minutes to hours, while traditional manual operations take weeks or months. and new financing, services, and developer resources further extend the value of HP Cloudsystem.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)