HP OFFERS CONVERGED SOLUTIONS FOR NEW ERA OF COMPUTING

HP announced its 2012 strategy to deliver infrastructure, software and services solutions to help customers face challenges in the computing and communication environment that is driven by mobile, social, big data, and the cloud.

Meg Whitman, HP’s chief executive officer, said on stage at HP Discover 2012 last week that its strategy is aimed at helping customers deal with challenges in the new era of information computing. 

HP offers technology infrastructure, servers, and service in the form of solutions for a wide range of customers across industries. 

“HP is in the great position to help customers challenge the huge amount of information; we offer solutions with infrastructure, server, and services,” said Whitman.

To transform storage with the power of convergence, HP has announced HP Converged Infrastructure and Converged Cloud concept to make seamless the new technologies with the legacy infrastructure.  At the event, HP announced its newest products to serve its mission to be the technology partner providing services with the converged infrastructure and converged cloud. 

HP expanded its converged cloud portfolio with new offerings that extend the power of the cloud across infrastructure, applications and information, enabling enterprises to accelerate innovation and enhance agility. 

The announcements include solutions for delivering converged cloud services for the airline industry; building hybrid cloud environments; managing the next generation of cloud applications; increasing office productivity with cloud print solution; and closing the IT cloud expertise skills gap. 

Introduced in April, HP Converged Cloud is the industry’s first strategy and portfolio based on a single architecture that combines private, managed and public cloud, as well as traditional IT, to create an environment that can rapidly change based on organisational requirements 

Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Group at HP, said that based on HP Converged Infrastructure, these solutions enable organisations to shift resources from managing and integrating traditional, inflexible technology silos to an IT infrastructure that supports process innovation and strategic initiatives. 

“HP is transforming the storage industry with simplified and converged solutions that span from the midrange to the high end of the enterprise, enabling organisations to maximise the value from their information in the most efficient way possible,” said Donatelli.

Recent research conducted on behalf of HP suggests that by 2020, senior business and technology executives expect their organisations’ public and private cloud delivery models to nearly double. However, if not implemented properly, these delivery models could yield cloud silos, creating complexity, risk and vendor lock-in. 

New HP Cloud Planning Services help clients determine their hybrid delivery options and expedite the planning and analysis phases of cloud deployments. HP Datacenter Care offers clients customised support relationship through a single point of contact to deploy, help operate and evolve client data centres as they move from traditional data centres to a converged-cloud model.

For example, to enable airlines to quickly introduce new products and services to enhance revenue, HP announced its vision of an “Intelligent Airline Cloud”, delivering integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms that meet the specific requirements of airline clients. 

HP Converged Cloud Services for airlines provides the industry’s first hybrid delivery approach to the cloud that includes HP Passenger Service Solution, which combines HP’s core travel and transportation industry solutions into a single integrated airline reservation and travel SaaS platform. Its two key services, airline reservations and departure control, helped HP clients board more than 500 million passengers in the past year. 

The new HP Airline Service Oriented Architecture Platform provides airlines with a modern application-development Platform as a Service (PaaS) to drive rapid development of revenue-generating airline products. 

Moreover, HP also announced that Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest health charity, has selected HP technology to ensure that all its facilities deliver the same high standards of patient care. 

A robust, high-performance HP Converged Infrastructure based on HP CloudSystem and HP Storage offers a centralised IaaS platform that will help Nuffield Health deliver efficient, cost-effective healthcare services to 300,000 people every year. 

Nuffield Health operates more than 300 facilities across the UK, including 31 private hospitals, 65 fitness and well-being centres, and six medical centres. It also works with more than 1,600 businesses to support their employee well-being programmes and employs 13,000 staff.