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IT Best Practice

IT operations management and strong service delivery capability have consistently ranked amongst the top 10 priorities for customers according to industry consultants.

Business users are demanding extremely high levels of service, system availability and security; while IT operations managers are being asked to reduce resources and their cost of operations.

The ubiquitous use of Internet technologies now means external customers are directly impacted by IT performance.

If you’re looking for:

  • Reduced operational cost
  • Improved productivity
  • Higher availability
  • Improved customer service
  • Greater agility

HP can assist you in improving the performance of your IT operations management and IT provisioning life cycle through:

  • Best-in-class management technologies
  • Best practices in operations management
  • HP – the experience, the people and the partnerships

IT/Server Consolidation

Why have IDC rated HP as the number 1 server and storage program?

As your IT requirements continue to escalate so, too, do the many associated, but seemingly necessary, costs. Though it’s clear the need to economise is more pressing than ever, where might you begin? Whether it’s physical resources, human resources, software, or services, every component would appear to play an indispensable role. To pursue any type of resource consolidation, your responsibly is to completely understand all the ramifications — both near and long-term — and to enact changes that actually foster new levels of productivity. The problem is a complex one but nonetheless, a problem you can address right here and now.

Enterprises that are serious about employing IT consolidation strategies partner with HP to lower IT costs and improve service levels. The breadth of design, delivery, and management services we offer are unmatched.

We’re unique in our ability to deliver the broadest choice of options to customers where intent on taking advantage of the flexibility benefits inherent in open platform environments. Our consolidation offerings are further embellished through partnerships with leading software partners. These are the reasons IDC rated HP the number one server and storage consolidation program in June 2002. These are the reasons you’ll have the utmost confidence when you consolidate with HP.

If your organisation is eager to explore IT consolidation, but lacks the resources or expertise to perform a comprehensive assessment and execution plan, HP offers the ideal solution set. Our consolidation expertise allows your enterprise to better align IT with business initiatives and achieve the adaptive infrastructure you require to remain agile going forward.

Security

Do you need to:

  • Protect corporate data (intellectual property) and customer data (e.g. credit card numbers; sensitive information)
  • Reduce cost (lost revenues; lost productivity) from downtime related to viruses
  • Reduce potential liability or damage to reputation stemming from security breach
  • Prevent denial of service and defamation of Web sites (both private enterprise and government agencies)
  • Guard privacy and confidentiality of records (customer credit cards; patient data; medical history)

HP Services can ensure that the right people, and only the right people, get the right information. HP assists customers to implement best-in-class security solutions through our experience and expertise.

  • HP has been implementing security solutions for more than thirty years.
  • Our security consultants are trained in the most sophisticated security technologies from leading solution providers. HP also has the tools and methodologies to ensure a thorough understanding of business and technical risk.

Customers experience the benefits of faster time-to-implementation and reduced technology and business risk as a result.

 

 Additional information
» IT/Server Consolidation services brief (pdf)
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