HP is creating a new way to sell large data centers

HP is currently selling its data center services through a new approach called "Facility as Service" (FaaS).

Today, the company either creates its own data center or leases space in the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13922.html "> Hosting facility." If HP offers an intermediate solution. HP can create a data center with power and environmental systems at any time according to customer requirements. HP will always have ownership of the data unless the customer finally decides to buy the data center.

Even though HP has ownership of the data center, the facility is still the customer's data center. Customers will be able to manipulate the facility and can install any device they require. "They are completely your environment," said Rick Einhorn, vice president of HP's Global data Center Consulting department. The customer actually owns the data center. ”

HP believes the new service will eliminate the high up-front costs of creating data centers. The target customers of this solution are companies that want or need to retain facilities control and not rely on hosting service providers. Sophia Vargas, a market research firm Forrester analyst, says most of the enterprise infrastructure remains within the enterprise infrastructure and runs within the enterprise facilities, rather than in a managed data center or cloud environment. These companies want to retain control over the state of the facility and the environment.

For HP's solution, Vargas that there are certain companies that need this solution. She believes the solution is a new solution for the data center market. The new solution offers more choice and flexibility to create data centers, especially by translating some of the costs into operational costs. While it is not possible to pinpoint the cost of creating a new datacenter, there is no doubt that there is a risk assessment involved in creating a new data center. In this new model, the risk will be shifted to HP.