Get on the fast track to on-demand shared
services delivery
Solution brief
Quickly moving toward the cloud
More and more organizations are realizing the benefits of a dramatically different model for providing IT services today—a model in which services are sourced and delivered dynamically to meet changing needs quickly, efficiently and at a variable rather than fixed cost. Cloud technologies are at the center of this transition, offering a new way to build and deliver IT services on demand. In the cloud, delivering services can be as simple as sending users to a portal to make a request.
Many organizations have made the decision to transition to cloud over time, and agree the likely end-state will be a hybrid of both public and private cloud models. Their struggle is with how to enable the transition. For those that have already embraced virtualized IT infrastructures, the private cloud offers a more controlled—and inherently more secure— environment in which to begin the transition to on-demand services delivery.
Successfully building a private cloud requires the ability to optimize design and delivery across the entire environment, leveraging a converged infrastructure, end-to-end cloud service automation and cloud transformation services. Success also requires solutions that work seamlessly with your existing environment and across the entire private/ public/hybrid cloud landscape.
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Cloud Computing Basics
Public cloud computing
delivers resources from a third
party over the Internet, using Web services.
It requires little or no up-front investment, but
there may be concerns about the security
of data delivered in this manner.
Private cloud computing
offers cloud-based services
on a private network, behind a corporate
firewall, thus reducing concerns about
exposure of sensitive data in a public
cloud environment.
Hybrid cloud computing
is a future model that
combines public and private clouds to
leverage the best aspects of both. For
example, an organization might use a
minimal-investment public cloud to store
archived data, but rely on the security
of a private cloud to store current
operational data.
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And yet, as you map your path to a private cloud, you cannot afford the time and expense of a long, drawn-out project. You need solutions today to accelerate your deployment of a service-oriented environment that matches the speed, flexibility and economics of a public cloud, but without the risk or loss of control.
HP Private Cloud solutions
HP Private Cloud solutions provide a complete on-demand environment for delivering shared services, to speed you along the path to the cloud. These are purpose-designed, production-ready solutions. They include comprehensive, packaged offerings that bring together hardware, software and services, as well as customer-specific solutions developed using reference architectures and architectural blueprints.
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HP Private Cloud benefits
• Speeds time to service with 30 day guarantees on
pre-packaged solutions
• Enables an open environment, with no vendor
lock-in, extensible systems and easy integration with third-party offerings
• Provides comprehensive physical and virtual security
from infrastructure to application, including full threat protection, data privacy and compliance
• Delivers flexibility for diverse cloud computing
models and workloads (infrastructure as a service, platform as a service or software as a service)
• Simplifies consumption of services with one-touch
services provisioning from a single portal
• Includes a full complement of services capabilities,
automated metering and chargeback
• Ensures mission-critical availability and instant
scalability
• Reduces compliance management time through
advanced automation and governance functionality, including a single governance and security model
• Smoothes the transition from existing environments
with heterogeneous infrastructure, management and application support
• Provides best-practice guidance from HP Services,
including expertise in deploying, customizing and executing on the long-term vision of a private cloud that is tuned specifically for your environment
HP cloud solution architecture
Successfully building a private cloud requires the ability to optimize design and delivery across the entire environment, leveraging a converged infrastructure, end-to-end cloud service automation and cloud transformation services. Success also requires solutions that work seamlessly with your existing environment and across the entire private/ public/hybrid cloud landscape.
HP cloud solution architecture
Hosted On Site Public Manag ement and go vernance Service Catalog
One catalog to unify all services— simplifying service consumption & billing
Service Management & Assurance Assure service health with integrated management, governance, & compliance
Service Orchestration
Automated application orchestration Converged Infrastructure Built on Converged Infrastructure
HP Private Cloud offerings
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HP CloudStart solutions
HP CloudStart brings together hardware, software and services to put private cloud deployments on the fast track. With all the required components pre-integrated and delivered at a fixed price, you can use HP CloudStart to easily deploy services on demand within 30 days. HP CloudStart makes it possible to deliver pay-per-use services from a common portal and offers the ability to create and deploy new services automatically. With
HP CloudStart, clients can:
• Request a service via a portal
• Have the service provided immediately
• Use the service without worrying about security,
management, etc.
• Scale or cancel the service
• Get a regular report on service consumption or
chargeback
HP CloudStart solutions are designed to be specific to a given service or application, while also extensible via HP’s Converged Infrastructure portfolio to meet customized needs. The base HP CloudStart for Compute solution is a turnkey private cloud offering intended to rapidly enable on-demand compute service delivery. HP CloudStart for Exchange speeds private cloud deployment of Microsoft® Exchange,
today’s market-leading messaging solution.
It integrates Microsoft Exchange 2010 Cloud Maps (see below) with CloudStart for Compute and specialized Exchange delivery services to provide common, extensible cloud functionality such as chargeback, portal, automation framework and high availability, tailored for an Exchange deployment. You can also easily customize CloudStart offerings with additional integration points and functionality. HP CloudSmart
Industry’s Most Complete, Turnkey Private Cloud Solutions
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HP BladeSystem Matrix: Foundation for the cloud Built on the industry-leading HP BladeSystem server, the HP BladeSystem Matrix is the foundation for HP’s pre-packaged CloudStart and customized private cloud offerings. It integrates compute, storage and network resources with unified management to create a virtualized, highly automated environment in which pools of resources can be carved up on demand and assigned to applications as needed. Using HP BladeSystem Matrix, organizations can deploy private cloud environments in minutes—and
significantly reduce total cost of ownership compared to traditional IT infrastructures.
Services Requested
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HP Cloud Maps: Accelerated application deployment for the cloud
HP Cloud Maps accelerate and automate deployment of cloud applications, with an easy-to-use navigation system to help you quickly build your own service catalog. HP Cloud Maps can save days or even weeks of time architecting the infrastructure for applications and services. HP Cloud Maps leverage HP’s extensive intellectual property built up over 15 years of architecting environments. Solutions include tested and proven templates, workflows, sizers and whitepapers to extend CloudStart capabilities to popular applications including:
• Microsoft SharePoint Server
• Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite • SAP NetWeaver
• Symantec NetBackup • F5 Networks
HP Cloud Maps Services are also available to help validate existing Cloud Maps against your own specifications, modify Cloud Maps with additional or alternative functionalities, or help you develop new customized Cloud Maps.
HP Cloud Service Automation for Matrix: Automating the cloud
As an optional powerful extension, HP Cloud Service Automation for Matrix allows you to expand on your CloudStart solution with intelligent end-to-end automation. One-touch provisioning from a single self-service portal speeds time to value and accelerates services delivery.
HP Private Cloud consulting and services HP provides end-to-end consulting, support and outsourcing services for HP Private Cloud offerings, including services for strategy, design, transition, operations and continuous improvement. To meet unique business requirements, HP offers services-led engagements to develop customer-specific solutions that are based on reference architecture and that leverage HP’s advanced cloud offerings.
Extending your private cloud with
HP Converged Infrastructure and
software capabilities
HP Private Cloud solutions can be extended and customized with the uniquely comprehensive set of capabilities—including servers, storage, networking and management software—of HP’s Converged Infrastructure.
Servers
HP offers a comprehensive portfolio of compute offerings in rackmount and bladed form factors, leveraging deep expertise in Windows®, Linux, and
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for power- and space-constrained data centers. All of these rich capabilities can be drawn upon to tailor a private cloud solution for a wide variety of specific needs.
Storage
The industry’s largest scale-out cloud storage infrastructure portfolio, HP StorageWorks products are designed to maximize storage utilization and maintain security and service levels—while at the same time simplifying self-service capabilities. The modular design allows a pay-as-you-grow approach, and the non-disruptive scalability (out or up) enables you to maintain performance as storage needs increase. StorageWorks represents a smart approach to storage, with dynamic operations based on known best practices and the ability to adjust to applications needs with rapid service level changes. It’s also self-optimized to reduce storage management burdens, with adaptive analysis and tuning to maintain service levels even under failure conditions. Features like policy-based thin provisioning, tiering and replication deliver 50% savings over traditional storage.
Networking
HP Networking provides a high-performance, flexible data center fabric that forms the interconnect for a robust HP open cloud solution. The HP FlexFabric data center network architecture is a massively scalable, virtualization-optimized fabric that enables on-demand service and application mobility. To address the needs of distributed workforces and to deliver the remote quality of experience that are essential in cloud environments, HP extends the data center to campus and branch office networks that, together, provide an end-to-end managed enterprise interconnect. Products like the HP A12500 data center core switch provide up to twice the performance of competitive offerings with half the power consumption,
while utilizing innovative technologies like Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) that reduce management complexity, increase performance, and improve availability. HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules provide a server-integrated, high-performance, easy-to-manage way to connect highly virtualized cloud building blocks to the rest of the network infrastructure, dramatically reducing complexity and total cost of ownership.
Security
HP offers proactive security solutions for the virtual and physical cloud infrastructure, with scalable, high-performance intrusion prevention solutions backed by industry-leading DVLabs security research. HP solutions centrally secure the entire data center attack surface—both virtual and physical environments, including the hypervisor. Cloud security is further strengthened by the HP TippingPoint vController + vFirewall, which ensures that virtual machine traffic is inspected and any threats blocked, and that virtual machine security postures are maintained regardless of virtual machine movement within the data center. It also allows for the creation and segmentation of data center “trust zones” in which applications on virtual or physical machines can be strictly separated—for example, engineering and finance or human resource applications.
Management
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HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) consolidates and automates the dynamic allocation, provisioning and management of cloud services across a diverse environment, including an open interface to ease integration with legacy systems. Complete automation and configuration capabilities provided by HP CSA include planning and auditing,
provisioning, maintenance and incident response, and service requests for composite applications. CSA automatically optimizes resources against policy goals (such as regulatory compliance), leveraging thousands of pre-defined resource models. CSA also employs advanced application deployment management to lower the total cost of management for dynamic cloud applications.
Let HP lead you to the cloud
No other company is as well positioned as HP to help you transition to the cloud, leveraging the immense power of our collective Converged Infrastructure portfolio, rich HP automation software capabilities and comprehensive services, all in a holistic fashion. HP’s Private Cloud solutions deliver all the capabilities you need to rapidly transform your environment into a shared-services delivery model today, while also positioning you to easily take advantage of hybrid environments tomorrow.
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