Hewlett Packard
The IT consolidation journey
IT consolidation can be viewed as a journey, along which there are many entry points from the various parts of the enterprise infrastructure. For example, companies may move to consolidate core worldwide enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle? Financials or e-mail, while also driving consolidation of operations across sales offices or remote data centers. Frequently, multiple initiatives are undertaken, spanning more than one step on the journey.
Distinct activities are involved during each step of this journey:
- Co-location-bringing widely distributed systems into fewer, centralised locations is an important step in enterprise consolidation that will quickly yield savings in management and operation costs while increasing security, availability and system usage.
- Hardware/data integration-reducing the volume of servers and centralising storage improves performance and maximises the availability of applications and data, while lowering overall operating costs.
- Application integration-companies can streamline resources, standardise systems and applications, and increase performance while reducing total cost of ownership, by shifting from multiple applications accessing multiple databases to solutions running on fewer servers integrating databases and applications.
- IT utility-the ultimate in adaptive infrastructure, HP IT utility solutions feature components that self-configure dynamically and economically. With dynamic resource allocation customers can dramatically increase server and storage utilisation.
Solution overview
Established on a solid foundation of proven HP technologies and services, HP's solution features the resources of HP OpenView management tools, the stability of HP support and the experience of HP's global deployment services.
