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Cloud computing strategies help IT organizations reduce costs, improve service levels, and increase business agility by dynamically sharing IT resources across multiple applications and workloads. Although many organizations have started their cloud journey by using software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings or implementing self-serve approaches to virtual server provisioning, a small but rapidly growing group of IT organizations are focused on using cloud to optimize more broadly across application development, infrastructure operations, and day-to-day management processes. A recent global IDC survey, sponsored by HP, examined the experience of this proactive group of integrated cloud managers.
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The effort to make IT "more manageable" has been going on for decades. The tools, techniques, and strategies introduced over the years have helped us scale from when we could count our computers on our fingers to today, where we count them by the thousands, if not hundred-thousands. But it's a constant race. As IT's economic and social importance ratchets up every year, so do the scale points and service levels required. We have to keep raising the bar.
HP's CloudSystem builds on HP BladeSystem, storage, and supporting management tools, but combines them in a service-oriented, shared-infrastructure way that changes the nature of IT management. Rather than "BladeSystem plus some management tools," HP CloudSystem is a coordinated system for setting up pools of modular resources and flexibly deploying IT services across those pools. HP CloudSystem provides a higher level of abstraction-one in which IT services are first-class citizens, and which is specifically designed to avoid "some assembly required."
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Everyone wants to move their IT toward a more flexible, efficient future state. This has driven recent years' data center modernization projects. Organizations are modularizing with blade servers, consolidating workloads onto virtualized environments, moving to scale-out storage, and adopting service-oriented management and delivery strategies-all part of forward-looking IT convergence and evolution. Many now look to the idea of "cloud computing" as their ideal future state. The cloud promises theoretically infinite resource pools onto which applications are deployed on demand. Clouds emerged first as a mechanism for Web and network computing, but have rapidly captured the imagination of enterprises and service providers as well. The cloud vision and the underlying demand for flexibility is essentially universal.
But what suits Web and network computing isn't necessarily what enterprises and service providers need. This Illuminata Spotlight discusses HP CloudSystem Matrix, a ready-to-run IT infrastructure, and its use as an out-of-the-box platform for private clouds suited to enterprise IT.
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The cloud is the hottest thing in computing today, and enterprises are eagerly seeking to adopt it. They realize that cloud computing holds the promise of curing today's "data center sprawl," with its colossal complexity, considerable costs, and substantial capital investment. For their part, service providers see the cloud as a catalyst for revenue growth. Executives and leaders look forward to the day when information technology will be delivered as a pure service throughout the organization - metered, ubiquitous, and available on demand much like electricity or water.
But the reality is that the cloud isn't yet so mature or capable that it's ready to replace traditional IT. Companies face a number of obstacles to cloud adoption. Among them: differences between business and IT executives about the pace of adoption; differing stages of maturity within the cloud adoption continuum; and the need to avoid compromising the cloud's benefits with scattershot, uncoordinated adoption. As you'll see, without a proper goal and a clear plan to get there, organizations risk re-infecting their IT environments with complexity and sprawl that are every bit as counterproductive as the data center problems the cloud was meant to correct.
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It's a fact of life: cloud computing is hot. And when it comes to the use of cloud services, business today is actually outpacing IT. Business users have been quick to recognize the cloud's advantages in speeding innovation, accelerating business processes, and reducing time to revenue. But enterprises and service providers have been slower to adopt cloud solutions because of well-founded concerns about security, management, and efficiency.
HP CloudSystem is the product of HP's experience in delivering industry-leading automation, application management, and Converged Infrastructure capabilities. It enables organizations to build and manage cloud services across private clouds, public clouds, and traditional IT environments.
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HP 3PAR® Utility Storage is the only virtualized storage platform that delivers 100% of the agility and efficiency demanded by today's virtual and cloud datacenters by leveraging key technologies developed to support datacenter virtualization. HP 3PAR Utility Storage was designed from the ground up to exceed the economic and operational requirements of today's most demanding IT environments. It is the only storage platform that delivers the performance, scalability, and availability required of tier 1 storage along with unique technology benefits not available with legacy platforms.
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In recent years, cloud computing has been as visible as any topic in IT. Its front-page news status has been accelerated by Amazon, Salesforce.com, Yahoo, and Microsoft®, among other firms, aggressively vying for leadership in providing cloud infrastructure or services. However, this race for mindshare has obscured cloud computing facts. Many admit to the haze surrounding cloud computing.
This white paper separates fact from fiction, reality from myth, and, in doing so, will aid senior IT executives as they make decisions around cloud computing. While dispelling cloud computing myths, we will answer tough questions: How hard is it to adopt a private or hybrid cloud? How difficult is it to maintain and secure a cloud? How will the cloud transform my business? Do I have the right skill sets in place? What are some of my cost considerations? HP and Intel are committing extensive resources to helping customers with all of their questions and concerns around cloud computing.
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Before you build your cloud, there are many considerations. Are there security requirements? Compliance rules? Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively - from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software.
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A strong, flexible, and valuable cloud infrastructure can deliver exceptional service quality to the business. But not all clouds - or the services they support - are created equally. Learn how you can combine the benefits of traditional IT management with the dynamic potential of cloud architectures in this white paper.
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HP 3PAR Utility Storage was designed from the ground up to deliver massive scalability, secure multi-tenancy, high performance, and high availability to fuel enterprise-class virtual data centers and cloud computing environments. Industry-leading software solutions provide unique benefits that make any cloud more agile and efficient while ensuring secure segregation of user groups and applications. By reducing or eliminating capital and operating expenses, and by enhancing, accelerating, and protecting application and service ROI, HP 3PAR Utility Storage, powered by Intel Xeon processors, improves the return on IT, and on information itself. Most importantly, HP 3PAR Utility Storage provides the storage foundation necessary in building a converged infrastructure that transforms the data center. Such transformation is key to overcoming the inflexibility and high costs created by IT sprawl and shifting the focus to innovation and strategic initiatives that add value to the business.
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Efficient, effective supply chain operation is imperative in today's global marketplace. A solution called "community cloud" offers advantages such as: -Flexible, scalable compute capacity -A highly secure, consistent services layer managed by a third party in the cloud -The cost benefits of moving IT from a capital expenditure to an operating expense. Read this white paper to learn more.
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CA Technologies Newsletter featuring Gartner Research. This publication, enhanced by Gartner research, reveals how to take a proactive IT approach which ensures visibility and control during the adoption of virtualization and cloud environments.
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With virtualization comes a simple, automated infrastructure that leads to a dynamic, efficient enterprise. Read this whitepaper to learn how virtualization has proven itself an invaluable technology setting enterprises on the path to cloud computing.
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Attaining the maximum benefits of virtualization requires a plan and constant monitoring to ensure peak performance. This whitepaper will help you understand the business benefits and why it's worth switching to a virtualized environment.
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Now that the quick wins of virtualization have been realized, IT leaders need to focus on what's required to reach the next level. A priority for the enterprise cloud of the future is enabling more efficient management - read on to learn more.
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