Solution brief HP CloudSystem Enterprise The most complete hybrid cloud solution for infrastructure and application provisioning Organizations building on-premise environments are being With HP CloudSystem Enterprise, users select services from a catalog and self- constrained by the lack of a comprehensive, integrated solution manage their subscriptions through a convenient dashboard display that creates confidence and a sense of trust in the cloud. Current approaches to cloud computing create fragmentation and can only address a portion of the capabilities required for a complete cloud solution. The right cloud solution must alleviate concerns including the difficulty in managing private and public clouds with traditional in-house IT environments, application robustness, security, and agility. Customers will accelerate their move to, and fully exploit, the cloud when vendors offer an integrated system that delivers a set of cloud fundamentals.
That’s the hybrid cloud vision. And thanks to HP, it’s a reality today. HP Converged Cloud is the industry’s first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio based on a common architecture that enables customers to build, manage, secure, and consume cloud services that span private, managed, and public clouds as well as traditional IT.
Start thinking now about your hybrid cloud future You may already be using some public cloud services or thinking The benefits for your organization: about employing a private cloud. And that may be all you need. But if you’re looking ahead toward a hybrid cloud delivery model, increased agility and lower cost combining private and public cloud services with traditional IT to Compared with traditional IT, deploying HP CloudSystem Enterprise provide a unified computing environment, you need to consider can bring substantial advantages in reacting to market new business questions like these: conditions or market opportunities. At the same time, this system • How do you build services from a mix of physical and virtual can help lower costs and increase return on investment. resources? • How can you architect a cloud service in a multivendor Choose the right cloud solution for your organization’s environment? needs • How can you maintain control of your services and eliminate IT Based on proven, market leading HP Cloud Service Automation sprawl? and Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudSystem is tailored for • How can you avoid vendor lock-in? the requirements of enterprises and service providers at various HP CloudSystem Enterprise: turn your hybrid cloud vision stages of cloud maturity with three offerings: into a reality • Entry configuration for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) with Whether you need an exceptionally robust private or hybrid cloud HP CloudSystem Matrix that lets IT customers provision environment, want to provision and deliver complex applications, infrastructure and applications in minutes. or need to manage hybrid services, the answer is HP CloudSystem Enterprise. Based on proven, market-leading Converged • Full-scale deployment of private and hybrid cloud Infrastructure and HP Cloud Service Automation, HP CloudSystem environments with HP CloudSystem Enterprise, which Enterprise integrates servers, storage, networking, security, and lets customers unify management and adds advanced management to automate the infrastructure-to-application lifecycle infrastructure-to-application lifecycle management. for hybrid service delivery—whether you’re starting from scratch or • Advanced capabilities for service providers with transforming your current multivendor environment. HP CloudSystem Service Provider, facilitating deployment of HP CloudSystem Enterprise lets you unify management of all public and hosted private clouds that deliver complete service cloud assets, private and public, as well as your more traditional aggregation and management. IT environments. It presents these as an integrated catalog of easy-to-order services and applications designed for business users who aren’t necessarily IT knowledgeable. Behind the scenes, CloudSystem Enterprise automatically provisions those services by configuring and installing servers, storage, networking, virtualization, middleware, databases, and applications. It also includes advanced application lifecycle management that manages resources automatically, without the need for intervention by your IT staff.
2 Improve agility and flexibility HP CloudSystem Enterprise A seamless fusion of public cloud, private cloud, and traditional IT services HP CloudSystem Enterprise lets you substantially increase your organization’s agility, enabling you to rapidly respond to changing demands. You gain the ability to scale and flex capacity in seconds, not hours or days or weeks. What’s more, your users can order services and then suspend or halt those services the instant they’re CloudSystem no longer needed.
Lower costs and reduce risk With HP CloudSystem Enterprise, you don’t need as many physical Cloud Maps assets because you can leverage the same infrastructure across Service multiple groups with higher rates of utilization. Application and catalog infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and management are handled automatically so IT can perform these routine tasks quicker. Orchestration Moreover, HP CloudSystem Enterprise lets you extend and protect your current investment by integrating a legacy infrastructure— Provisioning including software—into CloudSystem’s hybrid cloud environment. and monitoring Converged Infrastructure Conquering the challenges of a hybrid solution Fast, easy delivery of IT services to your line-of-business users With HP CloudSystem Enterprise, your internal customers visit a Enterprise-level assurance of availability business-oriented self-service portal to select applications and services such as a marketing survey, a Web development platform, In HP CloudSystem Enterprise, we’ve taken special steps to monitor or even a complete enterprise landscape. The process is fast, easy, availability and performance. The cloud service portal not only and requires no IT staff involvement. Users benefit from a single provides a unified view of services, but also confirms service quality view of all services available to them—they don’t have to know, or across all sources. The system monitors applications and can patch care, whether the underlying resources are physical or virtual, or them automatically. And because CloudSystem Enterprise employs how CloudSystem is integrated with your infrastructure, your legacy HP Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) to track servers and storage, or even a public cloud. configuration items, the system can be linked to HP Business Service Management solutions to maintain your service level agreements What to remember: simple service catalogs that replace time- (SLAs). consuming IT-based processes What to remember: at last, a business-critical hybrid cloud Increased efficiency with automation for users and IT staff alike Advanced lifecycle management from beginning to end Behind the scenes, we’ve automated the process of transforming HP CloudSystem Enterprise has advanced infrastructure-to- pools of resources into service offerings. CloudSystem Enterprise application lifecycle management capabilities built in. CloudSystem frees them up to focus more on innovation and the business goals, Enterprise manages the full lifecycle from discovery to provisioning, rather than just delivering technology and maintaining the IT patching to configuration management, and script execution to systems. An advanced application deployment engine automates compliance assurance. When a service is requested, CloudSystem the provisioning of the infrastructure, composite applications, Enterprise automatically provisions the databases, middleware, databases, and middleware that ultimately populate the service servers, storage, networking, and applications. When the service is catalog. operating, the system keeps it maintained, patched, and managed. And when that service is no longer needed, CloudSystem Enterprise Developing a service catalog and presenting it to end users is easy decommissions the service, returning the resources to the general with HP Cloud Maps. These pre-defined templates for popular pool so other services can use them. business applications from vendors like Microsoft®, Red Hat, and Oracle can save weeks and months of development time. They What to remember: lifecycle management that’s complete, get your key applications up and running on the cloud quickly, comprehensive, and seamless automating ongoing management and freeing your IT team for other tasks.
What to remember: IT staff freed to make more strategic contributions
3 Compliance you can count on HP Services help you get started Regulations like HIPAA in the United States, the Data Protection HP experts have been delivering on HP solutions—including Directive in the European Union, and Japan’s Personal Information HP BladeSystem, Matrix Operating Environment, and HP Software— Protection Law make it imperative that you can prove certain across industries and around the globe for years. Our integrated information stays under your control. For cloud computing, that support and service offerings can help you transform your IT might mean ensuring sensitive data remains on premises—or in one infrastructure and optimize your cloud. We recommend two easy country—and isn’t allowed to burst to a public cloud. The advanced ways to get started: allocation management in CloudSystem Enterprise lets you lock down data by means of business policies. And because the system • HP Converged Cloud Workshop keeps a record of that lockdown, you can more easily respond to If you’re still formulating your cloud strategy, you may want to audits. enroll in a Converged Cloud Workshop to help develop a practical, step-by-step path to your cloud solution. The workshop addresses What to remember: robust compliance suitable for the enterprise people, processes, and technology transformation challenges, cloud and it will assist you in deploying an initial foundation on the way to a hybrid cloud environment. • HP CloudSystem Enterprise Enablement Services Inside HP CloudSystem Enterprise If you are ready to offer your first service, then HP CloudSystem Enterprise Enablement Services help you quickly implement There are many reasons why HP CloudSystem Enterprise is a infrastructure as a service or platform as a service through highly effective hybrid cloud solution. HP CloudSystem Enterprise development of a hybrid cloud strategy, integration of leverages the key benefits of HP CloudSystem Matrix, such as CloudSystem Enterprise into your environment, and development the infrastructure service designer, automated infrastructure of a service catalog with customized services leveraging HP Cloud provisioning, and out-of-the box bursting capabilities to public and Maps. managed cloud providers such as HP Cloud Services, Amazon Web Services, and Savvis. It also adds the robustness of HP Cloud Service Sweeten the pot with HP Financial Services Automation, the software engine that provides one-touch, multi-tier provisioning and comprehensive management of both applications HP Financial Services can provide attractive terms on leases for new and infrastructure across private and hybrid cloud. systems. They also can help free up cash with the sale and leaseback of your current equipment, deferred payment plans, and low-rate While CloudSystem Enterprise is optimized for HP infrastructure, it financing for servers, storage, and networking. is open and heterogeneous and supports third-party infrastructure, plus multiple hypervisors and operating systems. Where to go from here To learn more about HP CloudSystem Enterprise, visit HP helps get you to the right cloud hp.com/go/cloudsystem As a part of HP Converged Cloud architecture, clients have a simplified, integrated architecture that is easier to manage and provides flexibility and portability between private, public, and managed clouds. No matter where you begin, HP provides you with a clear path to the cloud.
HP CloudSystem Enterprise is the ideal solution to bring your legacy systems forward, transform virtual assets into fully automated hybrid IT environments, and enable an agile set of service delivery capabilities across all IT domains.
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