HP has extended its Hybrid Delivery solutions portfolio in a move it says will help enterprises improve their agility and quickly respond to changing customer and citizen needs.
According to Jan Zadak, executive VP of enterprise sales and marketing, speaking at HP Discover, in Las Vegas, this week, hybrid delivery environments use flexible delivery models to best meet changing market demands.
Hybrid delivery environments combine traditional IT infrastructures with private and public clouds, he explained.
Recent research conducted on behalf of HP reveals that 95% of business and government executives believe agility is key to the success of their organisations. “Investments in technology were viewed as critical to increasing agility in the next five years,” Zadak noted.
HP CloudSystem, the company's platform for building and managing services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments, has been updated to include what HP says is the industry's first “dual bursting” capability to help clients manage uneven demands. This allows clients to provision and dynamically scale resources up and down, either via a public cloud provider, or through an onsite pay-as-you-go cloud model.
To allow service providers to maximise the advantages that come with a fast-growing cloud market, the company unveiled HP CloudAgile, a programme that spans the full HP enterprise portfolio, including CloudSystem. It provides participants with direct access to HP's global sales force and network of channel partners.
According to Zadak, HP Hybrid Delivery services enable clients to select the best method of delivery for their organisations, tuned to their environments.
The company's Support Services for CloudSystem provide a single point of accountability, with integrated hardware and software support, 24/7 coverage, proactive problem prevention and automated HP remote support.
This allows clients to shift resources from troubleshooting to innovation, improving their ability to quickly respond to changing customer and citizen demands.
Zadak added that HP CloudStart services extend the capabilities of HP CloudSystem to help clients define initial private cloud services, implement internal costing and chargeback, and comply with clients' existing security and backup policies.
New functionality automates deployments of basic applications, compliance monitoring and patch management in a private cloud.
The company also introduced HP CloudSystem curriculum and courses, that enable clients with knowledge and change management support to quickly maximise the potential of their cloud technology investments.
HP also unveiled security services, available through the cloud, that the company says mitigate risk of security vulnerabilities, while lowering the financial commitment often required for security contracts. Services include HP Enterprise Cloud Service, which features vulnerability scanning to lower the risk of data loss, or unauthorised access by reducing common security mistakes. The service scans network nodes - including servers and networking devices where vulnerabilities may exist.
Also included is Vulnerability Intelligence, which provides information on newly discovered potential threats, enabling clients to take corrective actions with targeted, actionable information before an outage or network loss occurs.
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