HP Simply StorageWorks Solutions for HP BladeSystem

HP Simply StorageWorks solutions for HP BladeSystemA guide to storage provisioning and data protection for your bladed server infrastructureTable of contentsStorage and IT infrastructure challenges: Unique to your business 3Think differently about how you store and protect data: HP BladeSystem and HP StorageWorks 3Connecting storage to your blade environment 4Storage provisioning and consolidation 6Business protection 7Solutions to address specific business needs 8HP Simply Storage Consolidation at a glance 12Delivering better business outcomes 15Why HP? 15HP Services 16Storage and IT infrastructure Think differently about how
challenges: Unique to your you store and protect data:
business HP BladeSystem and HP The goal of every IT department is to provide high-quality StorageWorksIT service to the business, at the lowest possible cost, while improving business outcomes. This fact is even more HP BladeSystem is simply a smarter way to build an important when thinking about today's economic climate. infrastructure to support the vital applications your At the heart of this challenge we find several common business requires, but with fewer wires, lower electric problems related to IT infrastructure. First, beyond the bills, addressing the concerns you have today.initial acquisition cost is the ongoing maintenance cost. All of this adds up to big savings in time and money Second, how do you make the best use of your time? that you can re-invest into your business. A BladeSystem Third, traditional infrastructure can be inflexible and tackles these problems by consolidating everything from difficult to adapt and grow. Lastly, how do you optimize the start; before the infrastructure grows out of control. utilization of energy and physical resources? It repackages the moving parts for greater convenience Looking outside of the infrastructure itself, we see two and lowers costs, plus it adds useful features to save you key challenges related to data storage: time, money, and power, while making change easy.. Provisioning capacity for applications As you rethink your infrastructure and take cost out . Reducing risk through a sound data protection strategy of your business with the HP BladeSystem, you may also be exploring the benefits of a virtual server Data is the lifeblood of today's business-and these two infrastructure. Blade servers, virtual servers, and your challenges are both critical in providing quality IT service next-generation IT infrastructure all have one thing in to the business. In the past, you were forced to choose common-they require you to think differently about how between complex and expensive systems designed for you store and protect your data. Unlike large enterprises enterprise customers or use static direct attached storage that often have specialists dedicated exclusively to for individual servers. The first option was beyond the storage efforts, midsize businesses like yours may not reach of most companies and the second was inefficient have the time, resources, or available expertise to and associated with higher total cost. develop effective, long-term storage strategies.These problems are all a result of how infrastructure and storage systems are traditionally built, the silos they create, and the complex processes behind them.
3"The glue that makes the HP BladeSystem and
the transformation of our data center possible
is our move to the HP StorageWorks SAN."
Jeff Haidet, Consultant,
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