HP Broadens Virtualization Offering with New Service, Expanded Availability via Channel Partners

HP Broadens Virtualization Offering with New Service, Expanded Availability via Channel Partners

HP today expanded its portfolio of virtualization services with a new offering that helps enterprise customers virtualize their entire IT infrastructures – from the desktop to the data center – enabling automated, 24×7, lights-out computing. Additionally, the company has broadened its distribution efforts by making the HP Care Pack Service newly available through select HP channel partners.

Industry experts estimate that average server utilization ranges from only 10 to 30 percent. The HP Care Pack Service, based on VMware’s Capacity Planner, is a part of HP Virtualization Assessment Services, which enable customers to make more efficient use of underutilized IT assets, reduce data center operating costs and minimize risks associated with infrastructure changes.

“HP’s virtualization technology and services can help customers increase agility and achieve real business benefits by ensuring that IT supply automatically meets business demand,” said Nick van der Zweep, director of virtualization, HP. “With HP Virtualization Assessment Services, we’re bringing customers further along the road to achieving a next-generation data center.”

HP has been helping customers virtualize their environments for many years using technologies such as HP Asset and Consolidation Analysis Tools and VMware Capacity Planner. In a typical scenario, utilization data for servers, storage and desktops from both HP and other vendors is collected at the customer’s site over a three- to four-week period. HP Services professionals then make recommendations on how to best consolidate and virtualize their environment, as well as offer a cost justification and sound business rationale for these projects.

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