"HP" "combination boxing" accelerates enterprise cloud transformation

October 18, Hewlett-Packard held the "cloud Computing and Innovation" Conference in Singapore, officially launched a new data center IT services, HP Virtualsystems solutions and HP Cloudsystem projects to accelerate the migration of enterprise users from traditional data centers to cloud computing data centers.

Wolfgang Wittmer, senior vice president and deputy general manager of Enterprise Server, storage and network division, said corporate users are embracing cloud computing because cloud computing is a good solution to some of the fundamental problems facing companies today.

"On the one hand, the enterprise IT system rigid, isolated phenomenon for many years has not been effectively resolved, which makes many enterprise users have to use most of the funds for the maintenance of the system; The more stable IT systems support the rapid growth of the business, both of which are well addressed by virtualization and cloud computing, which is an important reason why cloud computing is recognized as a future trend. "Wittmer said.

In recognition of this trend, many it vendors, including HP, have launched solutions to cloud computing products, but HP has adopted the various new products, new services and new financial policies introduced by the Conference, has conveyed to the outside world HP's view that helping the different size of the industry to transform the cloud is the need for cloud service providers with integrated IT capabilities, not just a pure cloud computing product solutions.

"Cloud" version of the data center IT service

Cloud computing from the concrete implementation level means to transform the existing traditional data center of the enterprise into the cloud Computing data center. However, the data center migration to the cloud environment is not to buy a hardware and software equipment so simple, it involves strategy, operations, cost accounting, risk management, and so on, so, the cloud Computing conference is the first to appear in a dedicated cloud-oriented data center IT services.

EJ Bodnar, director of global product marketing at HP's Technical Services division, said: "HP has been providing sophisticated technical services at three key levels of data center strategy, operations, and continuity assurance, and we have provided data center IT services to hundreds of users in Asia Pacific and Japan alone (APJ), The total area of the data centre designed and constructed has reached 372,000 square metres. Today, these services are all updated to the ' cloud ' version. ”

For example, at the strategic level of the data center, HP's Enhanced data center strategy and business Justification services help customers understand the immediate and long-term benefits of data center transition to the cloud; At the data center operations level, HP Data Center Integrated Management, HP Key Facility optimization services can integrate the physical data center of an enterprise user with its new cloud infrastructure; at the level of continuity assurance at the data center, HP's key facility Continuous Improvement Program forecasts the data center performance requirements for continuous data availability through trend and capacity analysis to minimize business disruption.

"The practice has shown that HP upgrades to the" cloud "version of the data center IT service can help users shorten the 40% decision time and 35% of the data center operating costs. "Bodnar said.

Perfect Cloud product line

At this conference, HP cloud Computing solution itself, although there is no version of the Cloudsystem update, but the company has issued a number of sections under the concept of cloud computing in the heavy products.

Vice President of marketing, strategy and operations, HP Storage Division first, Tom Joyce first introduced the company's latest progress on the 3PAR storage product line.

"Since the acquisition of 3PAR last year, the number of HP 3PAR storage users has increased by one-fold, and recently we launched a new generation of HP 3PAR storage P10000 3PAR." "Joyce said.

It is reported that the P10000 3PAR including V400 and V800 two versions, is now the highest end of 3PAR products, supported by the number of drives and FC host interface than the 3PAR T series of products have increased by 50%. and V800 created global online transactions to process OLTP performance records.

3PAR, which has a multi-tenant architecture and excellent automated compact configuration technology, has been hailed as a "cloud-born" storage system for the industry, the world's top ten public cloud service providers seven of the use of 3PAR products, China's Hainan group's cloud computing platform in storage are all used HP 3PAR storage. HP's timely replacement of 3PAR has undoubtedly enhanced the strength of the HP cloud solution.

In addition to P10000 3PAR, another highlight of this product is HP's new virtualization hardware and software solutions HP Virtualsystem for Microsoft and HP Virtualsystem for Superdome 2/hp-ux. Joyce says the vast majority of corporate cloud journeys begin with virtualization, both of which are "turnkey" ways to help users deploy highly optimized, fully tested virtualized applications in a very short time.

where HP Virtualsystem for Microsoft enables customers to quickly deploy applications such as SharePoint, Exchange server, and SQL Server, including the VS1 and VS2 two specifications. The VS1 can be configured with up to 8 HP ProLiant DL380 G7 servers, 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet, lefthand P4500 SAN from 14TB to 57TB, and up to 750 virtual machines. The VS2 can be configured with up to 12 ProLiant bl460c G7 servers, multiple networks and enclosures, and a maximum of 84TB lefthand P4800 Sans, which can support up to 2,500 virtual machines. HP Virtual system for Superdome 2/hp-ux speeds access to key applications such as CRM, ERP, and core financial applications on HP's kinetic energy system.

A more intimate cloud strategy

To help users unload all their concerns about cloud computing, HP has launched a series of intimate policies, among which the CFO and CIO are most concerned about HP's 2 billion Dollar Cloud project financing program, Cloudsystem financing. According to Bodnar, corporate users can either buy HP cloud services on instalments or start with a small fee and opt out or continue to make additional investments after a 6-12-month trial.

In support services, the new HP Allianceone Resource Center for Cloudsystem will provide a quick enabler kit for independent software developers, system integrators, and service providers, including sample code, video demonstrations, and expert advice.

In addition, Steve Dietch, vice president of HP's cloud solutions and infrastructure marketing, said HP will also build 100 new centres of excellence in the world, 50 of which will be located in APJ. These cloud centers make it easier for customers to experience HP Cloudsystem while evaluating the optimal path to migrating to the cloud.

The global cloud computing market will grow from $40.7 billion trillion to $241 billion trillion from 2011 to 2020, and APJ's thirst for cloud computing exceeds Western Europe and North America, according to a survey released this spring by Forrester research. "As an end-to-end cloud service provider that spans users ' devices, it infrastructures, people, and processes, we will help users safely and easily enter the cloud era." "Wittmer said.

"HP Cloud computing Typical case"

In order to further improve the HNA group's IT system efficiency and work quality, while taking into account the need for data security, Hewlett-Packard using 3PAR Public cloud storage solution for HNA Group set up a cloud storage platform for the storage of core data, and on it to complete the system resources integration and data disaster objectives.

(Responsible editor: Songtao)