This document discusses HP CloudSystem Matrix, which provides a foundation for building and managing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds. It allows users to provision infrastructure resources and applications through a self-service portal in minutes. HP CloudSystem Matrix offers capabilities for automating lifecycle management, capacity planning, and ensuring continuity of services. The solution is built on HP's converged infrastructure products and aims to reduce complexity, lock-in, and costs for enterprises and service providers deploying private, public or hybrid clouds.
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The cloud represents the best of both worlds: economic efficiency on the side of IT and dynamic flexibility on the side of the consumer While there are a lot of cloud competitors out there, few can offer the true breadth that HP can deliver to meet the demands of all types of users.
Key takeaways:There are two paths to get to a converged infrastructure:Step-by-step approach – standardize, consolidate, virtualize, and automate the existing IT environment – and creating a shared services catalog for infrastructure and applicationsFast-track approach – with HP VirtualSystem and HP CloudSystemUltimate goal: Make IT the service broker who determines where to provision IT services most effectively and efficiently across a hybrid environmentHP Converged Infrastructure is the foundation for Converged Cloud---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------At HP, we understand that customers are at different stages of convergence (and IT maturity). Some organizations are still quite siloed and are just beginning to standardize and consolidate their IT infrastructure. Others have virtualized most of their server environment and are now in the process of virtualizing their storage and network resources. And a few have started to automate the provisioning of infrastructure using a service catalog and application life cycle management software tools.In short – we view the path towards convergence and ultimately a hybrid cloud environment as a journey. It doesn’t happen overnight – and each of the steps (standardization, consolidation, virtualization, automation, self service infrastructure and applications) help optimize your current IT infrastructure while laying the groundwork for cloud-based approaches. And we have a range of solutions that simplify cloud adoption. We offer a full line of integrated cloud solutions. These solutions range from pre-packaged, turnkey cloud environments such as our HP VirtualSystem and HP CloudSystem to comprehensive, extensible, global-scale solutions. HP CloudSystem is a completely ‘converged infrastructure’ in a single system – a great example of the ‘fast track approach’ to get to convergenceIncludes everything from servers, storage, and networking all the way up to a service catalog for infrastructure and application provisioningHP CloudMaps greatly simplify and accelerate the set up of application templates in the service catalogWe also offer an extensive set of cloud consulting services that can help you identify ‘next steps’ that are uniquely appropriate for your organization.
In order to deliver on the “Services Anywhere” promise, organizations will have to think differently about IT. No longer will they be solely a builder of internal infrastructure and services but will also need to broker or consume 3rd party/external services. The key will be understanding the unique requirements (e.g. availability, cost, performance, regulatory) of each service in the organization’s portfolio and address the SLAs in the most efficient and cost effective way; and at the same time, maintain compliance with policies. This will be done by creating the right mix of on-premise and off-premise services that leverage the best of traditional IT, private, managed, and public cloud…a hybrid delivery environment. So what is the implication for IT? Opportunities - but at the same time, risks. Agility - but at the same time, technology is now being sourced from multiple places which puts additional burden on security, management and automation. And the way infrastructure is built, applications developed, and information delivered, is changing. Organizations need to put in place the right hybrid delivery strategy.
HP Converged Cloud is the industry’s first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio based on a common architecture spanning traditional IT, private, managed and public clouds. Engineered for the enterprise, HP’s Converged Cloud extends the power of the cloud across infrastructure, applications and information and provides customers with: Choice through an open, standards-based approach supporting multiple hypervisors, operating systems, development environments, heterogeneous infrastructure and an extensible partner ecosystemConfidence through a management and security offering that spans information, applications and infrastructureConsistency through a single common architecture, portability across models, and one consumption experience.
We have a broad and deep Converged Cloud portfolio that helps customers do three fundamental things; (1) Build, Manage and Secure cloud environments…across all models; (2) Consume off-premise cloud services; (3) provide Professional Services to help/enable/guide our customers on the journey to the Converged CloudFrom a Build, Manage and Secure perspective, customers can procure industry leading, best of breed technology components from our Converged Infrastructure (servers, storage, networking) portfolio and IT Performance Suite offerings. They can also choose integrated offerings such as our flagship HP CloudSystem solution that brings together our Converged Infrastructure and Cloud Service Automation (part of IT Performance Suite).On the Consume side, we provide options for our customers; (1) Enterprise-class, managed, highly secure cloud solutions under HP’s Managed Cloud offerings – including Enterprise Compute Services, IT Performance Suite as a service, and Autonomy’s Protect and Promote services; (2) HP Cloud Services…our public cloud offerings that today are in public beta and offer infrastructure as a service (compute, object store, content delivery acceleration); (3) cloud services from our CloudAgile service provider partners.From a Professional Services perspective, we offer a full spectrum of services: strategy, design, implementation, integration and support.
Key pointsSo, how does it work. CloudSystem automates the entire lifecycle of cloud servicesStart off with Cloud Maps to build the catalog of Cloud Services. With Cloud Maps you set up the “instructions” for all of the elements of a cloud service.Then, you initiate the service through a single portal, regardless of where the services are delivered from – public cloud, private cloud, even traditional IT environments. Users don’t need to know or care where the services are sourced from. The infrastructure and applications are provisioned. Efficient delivery of services requires efficient identification of required resources. HP CloudSystem’s intelligent resource management automates the optimal allocation of private and public cloud resources to ensure that cost, performance and compliance goals can be met based on each client’s pre-defined business policies. This automation takes processes that can take months and reduced them to minutes. You can manage and monitor all of the cloud services, and then when resources are no longer needed, they are reduced to the pool. It’s end to end management from infrastructure to application to service, from provisioning to change to refresh. .
Let’s now look at how we deliver CloudSystem to clients. These offerings are all based on a single unified architecture that combines hardware, software, and services. This architecture addresses all deployment models (private, public, hybrid) and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). CloudSystem Matrix is our base offering. It targets clients who are looking to deploy a private cloud with a focus on Infrastructure as a Service. This base configuration is built on our market-leading HP BladeSystem Matrix, which provides the means to create virtual pools of servers, storage and network. We combine Matrix capabilities with our Server Automation and SiteScope products, which provide basic application provisioning, monitoring, patching, and compliance capabilities. For clients looking to deploy a more robust private or hybrid cloud environment, we have our CloudSystem Enterprise edition. This offering, leveraging the capabilities found in CloudSystem Matrix, provides the following advanced capabilities:A single view of all services across private and public cloud environments. These services are accessed from a unified service catalog via a self-service portalAfter service selection, we orchestrate the intelligent selection of resources needed to deliver the services based on business policies (performance, cost, compliance). These could be on-premise resources or off-premise sources, utilizing bursting or bridging capabilities.We then provision the application and infrastructure resources based on the selected resource pools, and provide ongoing monitoring and lifecycle management of the resources. Upon service retirement, we release the resources back into the shared pool. And finally, we have an offering that specifically addresses the requirements of service providers. Building off the capabilities found in the other two offerings, we offer the means for service providers to generate new revenue, decrease time to market, and simplify adoption of new value-added services. Specifically, the SaaS Aggregation Platform serves as a central interaction point where service providers can:Manage their own and third-party SaaS offeringsDefine, price, and expose service offerings to customersIntegrate into existing billing and management systemsDrive revenue management (settlement) with third-party providers and resellers
Here’s an example of converged infrastructure in action. HP CloudSystem Matrix brings together server blades, storage blades, virtualized networking, and software for management, automation, and disaster recovery—all in a single, integrated infrastructure platform.HP CloudSystem Matrix moves you beyond fragmented components to a converged infrastructure platform that doubles administrator productivity, with payback in less than a year. It allows you to provision and modify a complex infrastructure in minutes instead of months. Because it’s built on the industry’s leading blade architecture with proven technologies, you know it’s reliable. CloudSystem Matrix integrates with existing third-party storage and network environments. It lets you stand up a complete infrastructure environment ready for applications in minutes, not months. This quick time-to-value is made possible with capabilities for automated provisioning of servers with storage and network connections. With built-in HP Insight software, you can provision a complex multi-tier application infrastructure in less than two hours.The platform builds on proven HP innovations. A few examples:Accelerate your business: HP Insight Software can deliver faster time to business value by reducing administration costs by 29 percent and decreasing downtime by up to 77 percent. ID-VSE can reduce the cost of common data center tasks by up to 40 percent. It provides disaster recovery with the “push of a button.” Site “role-reversal” allows for a remote site to become the primary site, and allows the ability to set up failover scenarios back to the original site when availability exists again.Greatly improve service levels: CloudSystem Matrix improves your ability to easily maintain service levels with built-in disaster recovery. With a simple mouse click, you can move workloads to other servers or sites, improving recovery time by 80 percent or more. You can fail over workloads in as few as five minutes across physical and virtual servers.Transform data center economics: CloudSystem Matrix transforms the economics of your data center, helping you double administrator productivity, and double the capacity of your data center without adding power infrastructure. It helps you increase asset utilization and reduce capital expenses. 4:1 network consolidation reduces network edge switching costs by up to 75 percent. This is accomplished with HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology built into BladeSystem Matrix. And it reduces cabling by up to 94 percent.This is a system integrated by design to enable shared services and work in tandem with your other data center resources. CloudSystem Matrix changes the ground rules for what it costs to host and deliver an application.For example, in Matrix test and development environments: Easily repurpose test and dev infrastructure to test multiple services and then quickly provision identical infrastructure in production use tested templates … and be able to bring production environments back into a test environment. Engineers don’t have to wait for equipment, increasing developer efficiency by up to 40 percent. Matrix increases utilization of test and dev equipment by up to 10x … and will free up IT teams that are consumed with constantly setting up systems.
The new version 7.1 for Matrix enhances further the cloud experience to build and manage IaaS. As you know Matrix offers a complete IaaS cloud management solution, which allows:To design and provision IaaS in minutes, which include auto-provisioning capabilities for compute, storage and networking from a self-service portalTo optimize infrastructure confidently – from a lifecycle management perspective this is even more important than in a virtualized environment. You need to have at your fingertips how your infrastructure is running – are you under utilized – are you over over-subscribed – what actions to take to make sure you run in an optimized fashionAnd thirdly to protect continuity of services through automated failover capabilities. Let me share with you the key highlights re the new functionality with the release 7.1:In the next couple of slides we will go deeper into the expanded bursting capabilities as well as the increased configuration flexibility to reduce service sprawl. But let me highlight a couple of additional key areas:Furthermore, with the new Matrix analytics, you can use pre-defined (or out-of-the-box) queries to have Matrix search the data once per day to find potential issues before they become problem. This might include over-utilized or under-utilized systems. It might also include a search for optimal VM memory usage so that you can then better allocate VMware licenses.In addition, we significantly improved the built-in chargeback data, for example Costs can be extracted by service component and allocation times are tracked within Matrix for charge back, data can be easier through an API for groups, billing codes, etc. That combined with cloud cost management integration such as CloudCruiser you have clear transparency of your whole environment. From a DR perspective You can specify now that a Matrix template instance or service should be DR protected, as a whole, at deployment – so during a recovery phase the system is aware of the whole service not only a service component and will be recognized as that services at the recovery site. In addition, we support now asynchronous 3PAR FC support for DRBackground re scalability – with this solution we increased scalability from 10000 VMs to 12000 for federated VMs (recovery mgmt supports now 2500 protected servers)Background re “provisioning in minutes” is based on measuring the time to run an e-shopping application:Source: Based on experiences of HP customers and HP engineering. 108 minutes: To get here takes significant upfront configuration and design to enable this series of streamlined steps (e.g. create application templates). Defining initial/best-practice template (including template/workflows/RDP jobs and VM templates, etc.) took a couple of weeks. These templates are then used repeatedly for automated provisioning. Since we plan to make much of this available to future customers as value add, it will likely take less time for them to adapt to their environment.More details for use where required: 108 minutes is from logging into Matrix self-service portal to up and running service with configured applications.Initiate (5 minutes): Log into portal, select template and verify details, request, fill out request details (e-mail, which pools, lease period, etc.) and submit. Approval (5 minutes): Create ticket in HP Service Manager, review ticket details, and approve in HP Service Manager which automatically allows provisioning process to continue. Obviously approval times can vary.Provision Infrastructure (38 min): Automatically provision 3 blades, 3 virtual machines, automated attach of storage with NPIV, and allocate network addresses; no additional administrator interaction required; no LAN or SAN team interaction required.Install application (60 min): Install and configure Oracle RAC and WebLogic applications using custom scripted workflows (previously developed by this customer) [NDA: Planning on making this standardized out of the box.]Upfront work to install and configure Matrix not included. The typical process for the customer was 33 days because of the number of people/teams involved, communication errors/missed handoffs, and configuration errors that cause delays.
With the ‘out of the box’ cloud bursting, customers who wish to use an external burst service can simply select that bursting service from the infrastructure provisioning portal in CloudSystem. The Matrix Operating Environment will automatically provision the service to the bursting partner in the same way as it provisions local resources. It’s that simple. Able to reach out to a SP to grab resources with Matrix, Enterprise and SPVery flexibleEntire service can be deployed at SPPartial service can be deployed at SP (eg DB local, web at SP)Expand a private service to SP for extra capacity- Why do thisExtra capacity when CloudSystem private resources have been fully used – auto burst in this caseLocality to customerThe bursting services will be offered by a network of certified bursting partners as part of the CloudAgile program.Savvis is the first partner we are working with and they will be delivering these services by the end of 2011. Other partners will come on board in 2012We’ve been showing a demo to customers and it really impresses them. They want to learn more about CloudSystem immediately and set up a evaluation or PoC. They understand that the OOTB/simple burst will come later this year but they are so impressed that they don’t mind and want to go ahead now and add burst later.
If you’re already taking advantage of the benefits of virtualization—lower costs, increased flexibility and agility, and are ready to continue down the path to cloud, you can build a private cloud within a day with HP CloudSystem Matrix software. This solution lets you build a quick IaaS cloud solution without a significant additional investment by starting with any HyperV or VMware virtualized environment – whether you built it yourself or bought it integrated solution, i.e. HP VirtualSystem.HP CloudSystem Matrix software is delivered through Matrix Operating Environment, the core cloud management software in HP CloudSystem Matrix. As software offering, HP CloudSystem Matrix software does not require or rely on HP hardware. It offers a complete IaaS offering for virtual environments including a designer, catalog, self-service portal with automated provisioning and capacity planning. This software is supported on any x86 servers supported by VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.It is customer installable and if you add it to a running environment you should be up running within a day (we measured the time it takes – an experienced person can get it done easily within ½ day). For customers who want to try it out we offer a 90 day trial version for up to 10 VM hosts – just go to: www.hp.com/go/tryCloudSystem. (will be available when Matrix 7.1 ships later this month in June). When you’re ready to transition to advanced cloud solutions like PaaS or SaaS, you can upgrade to HP Cloud Service Automation for Matrix to add application provisioning to CloudSystem Matrix services, or you can move to HP Cloud Server Automation software to broker and manage private cloud, public cloud and traditional IT services with complete service lifecycle management. Background:Difference to HP CloudSystem Matrix:HP CloudSystem Matrix is an integrated hardware, software, and services solution and due to the fact that we include blades with Virtual Connect, you not only can do virtual provisioning, but also physical provisioning. In addition, we support for HP servers also Matrix recovery management. The software code you get with HP CloudSystem Matrix is exactly the same – just when you run it on HP platforms – specifically on HP blades with VirtualConnect the functionality is richer. The virtual resource pools managed by HP CloudSystem Matrix software can be seamlessly part of the richer HP CloudSystem Matrix implementation, as they will be seen as an expanded virtual resource pool which can be provisioned as needed.
Let’s take a closer look at HP Cloud Maps. They provide an easy-to-use navigation system that can save you days or weeks of time architecting infrastructure for applications and services. They can reduce provisioning time by 80 percent.Cloud Maps accelerate the automation of business applications on BladeSystem Matrix, so you can reliably and consistently fast-track the implementation of service catalogs. HP Cloud Maps consist of tested engineering components, such as: Templates for hardware and software configuration that can be imported directly into BladeSystem Matrix, saving days or weeks of solution design timeSizers to help guide capacity and performance planning Workflows and scripts designed to automate installation more quickly and in a repeatable fashionReference white papers to help customize the Cloud Map for your specific implementation We develop these templates with our ISV partners. This gives you access to pre-defined templates formulti-tenant cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) middleware and popular business applications.
Thanks in part to an unparalleled array of ISV and SI partners, HP Cloud Maps provide a broad portfolio of predefined cloud based application templates. They comprise a comprehensive and continually growing set of solutions—more than 100 HP Cloud Maps are available today—spanning infrastructure and application design to automated lifecycle management. With HP Cloud Maps, you can quickly and confidently build cloud service catalogs and respond to business demands by deploying applications with push-button ease. At hp.com/go/cloudmaps, you and your customers can see a complete listing of our new portfolio with descriptions of each Cloud Map.
Key points:Our customer reference list is growing. These include Sify, which is powering its On-Demand cloud services using HP BladeSystem Matrix. This allows Sify to provide demand based computing services on a pay-per-use or flexible contract model. Another notable customer is Resource AG. It is a leading SAP Full Service Provider in Switzerland. It plans, develops, implements and operates SAP solutions for midsize and large enterprises. For Resource AG, it was key to deliver fast services to the company’s customers. The results speak for themselves: “Productive rollout of new customers within 1 week. ROI of the project within 11 months.”The key driving factors and benefits for our customers include consolidation with space savings, combined with transforming and modernizing the data center through shared services, resulting in significant faster time to solution:Roswell Park Cancer Institute achieved tenfold space savings.Stein Mart now can go from bare metal to live application in 3 hours in any location.Additional information:Dubai Airport: fastest growing airport – offers data center services to 100 tenants from airlines to catering. Turned IT into a profit center while lowering operational costs, accelerating services delivery and raising SLAs: 200% space savings over previous environment, 12 month ROIGeneral Dynamics Information Technology/Marine Corps: Deliver IT solutions for the military, government and commercial customers WW. Transformed and modernized DC to provide shared services – enabling enhanced collaboration across departments.Mahindra & Mahindra: India’s market leader in Utility Vehicles & Tractors. Key driver: consolidation and shared services to achieve faster response time and lower costsRepublic of Turkey Ministry of Environment & Forestry: CevreveOrmanBakanligi: key issue – virtual server sprawl, managing demand, …. 14 month payback, 204% ROI, lowered cost for deployment of new systems MSI – system integrator – value the integrated solution for faster time to solution and a greater return on investment. NE = Nissho Electronics company in Japan. HP and Nissho Electronics announced a collaboration to provide integrated products and services that help customers in Japan realize the benefits of a simplified, secure and flexible cloud computing environment. Customers will be able to take advantage of HP’sBladeSystem Matrix for this. Combined with Nissho Electronics’ IT infrastructure and network integration services, customers will have a cost-effective, highly available cloud computing environment that provides the means for a dynamic data center so IT can drive business opportunities.
Today, most of the enterprise organizations are moving beyond basic investigation towards cloud adaption for revenue growthand competitive advantage. HP believes organizations will need to implement a hybrid delivery strategy that can leverage cloudservices as part of their IT delivery and consumption strategy. HP can help deliver these promises by leading organizations on apragmatic journey to the cloud and hybrid delivery. We can help organizations understand the implications of the technologyaspects of your strategy and also identify the people and process elements. At HP, our experts help you understand all aspects of the cloud models, analyze your current state, plan for the future, and help you design, build, operate and evolve your cloud solution—starting with your specific needs :HP is announcing number of new and refreshed cloud consulting services at HP Discover for helping organization’s with well planned cloud projects includingHighly visual, facilitated workshop- HP converged Cloud Workshop- enabling early alignment across key stakeholders Current and future state analysis prioritizing technical, organizational and process gapsMaster project plan and expert project management mitigating project risks and scope creep Competitive public cloud service offerings through business planningCFO buy-in and speedy investment approval based on facts-based business case For quickly designing and building secure cloud environments,HP offers predefined, pre-scoped, time-bounded set ofshort-term Cloudsystem consulting and implementation services such as Cloudstart. Specific Cloud protection and Application transformation portfolios helps organizations with the integrated security for cloud, workload analysis and application modernization for cloud. Once cloud environment is built, full environment support covering hardware and software for the hybrid environment becomes critical. HP Datacenter Care offers comprehensive, relationship-based approach to provide organizations end to end, customized support for their existing IT environments while aiding clients on their converged cloud journey. HP Datacenter Care offers innovative capabilities like custom call handling and relationship management; an optional OPEX model that provides on-premise bursting; and options for multivendor and multi-sourcing management.Last but not least HP Education Services with specific cloud trainings and cloud simulation help organizations manage change and reskill their staff for greater organizational adaption..
Presenter: SteveKey Points:Important to get grounded on the foundational definitions of Cloud Computing as there is a lot of confusion in the marketThree key flavors of cloud: Public, Private and Hybrid, with Private seeing the majority of draw from enterprise customers today, due to privacy and control concerns for public cloudThree flavors of compute model Saas, PaSS, IaaS, with IaaS being HP’s focal point todayLet’s start with some definitions.Cloud computing according to Forrester: “Cloud computing is a new way to build, operate and consume IT that makes IT resources flexible, dynamic and on-demand. It also transforms the economics - from planning ahead by making fixed cost commitments to cover peak load needs, to a simple "pay-as-you -go" model.” Another way to look at it. Cloud Computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid.Simply put…cloud computing describes a new consumption and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet and internet technologies, and it typically involves the ability to self-provision services, ability to scale up or down on demand, means pay only as you use resources/services, and finally the pooling of resources (i.e. utilizing virtualization and creating a shared delivery model).Key Cloud attributes are:ElasticPay-per-useNetworkedSharedOn-demandThere are different flavors of cloud computing. We’ll look at it from two dimensions. The first based on who manages the resources that deliver the service:Public cloud or external cloud…..describes cloud computing in the traditional mainstream sense, whereby resources are dynamically provisioned on a self-service basis over the Internet, from an off-site third-party provider who runs the complete environment and bills on a utility computing basis. The underlying compute resources are shared by all users. Public Cloud requires the least amount of up front investment, is pay as you go, but carries real risk and ambiguity associated with data security, and ease of use challenges. Public clouds are multi-tenant by design.In a private cloud, services are provided only to specific users, such as a cloud within a company. Services are still requested over the internet or using internet technology within a corporate network, and the underlying resources are shared, but only within a company or well defined entity. Private cloud can mitigate some of governance, availability and control issues worrying folks about the cloud. And at the same time, can deliver a similar level of economic benefit as the public cloud option. White private cloud requires infrastructure and ongoing maintenance investment, it is highly available and flexible (much more so than traditional IT) and resides behind corporate firewalls mitigating public cloud concerns over data security, governance etc. A hybrid cloud environment consists of services sourced from both internal and external providers. HP believes this will be typical for most enterprises in the future. Next there are different cloud computing models, depending on workload and service consumer.Cloud application services or "Software as a Service (SaaS)" deliver software as a service over the Internet, eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer's own computers and simplifying maintenance and support. SaaS offers network-based access to, and management of, commercially available (i.e., not custom) software. Salesforce.com is a good example of SaaS. Typically public cloud type. Cloud platform services or "Platform as a Service (PaaS)" deliver a computing platform and/or solution stack as a service. It facilitates deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software layers. Google App Engine is a good example of PaaS. It offers a full stack for people who want to develop and host applications on Google’s infrastructure. Public and private cloud types. Cloud infrastructure services or "Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)" delivers computerinfrastructure, typically a platform virtualization environment as a service. Rather than purchasing servers, software, data center space or network equipment, clients instead buy those resources as a fully outsourced service. The service is typically billed on a utility computing basis and amount of resources consumed (and therefore the cost) will typically reflect the level of activity. Amazon EC2 is a good example of infrastructure as a service – it delivers a compute environment with an operating system. Often private, a full range of IT service delivery, and associated elastic infrastructure.
Key takeaways:There are two paths to get to a converged infrastructure:Step-by-step approach – standardize, consolidate, virtualize, and automate the existing IT environment – and creating a shared services catalog for infrastructure and applicationsFast-track approach – with HP VirtualSystem and HP CloudSystemUltimate goal: Make IT the service broker who determines where to provision IT services most effectively and efficiently across a hybrid environmentHP Converged Infrastructure is the foundation for Converged Cloud---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------At HP, we understand that customers are at different stages of convergence (and IT maturity). Some organizations are still quite siloed and are just beginning to standardize and consolidate their IT infrastructure. Others have virtualized most of their server environment and are now in the process of virtualizing their storage and network resources. And a few have started to automate the provisioning of infrastructure using a service catalog and application life cycle management software tools.In short – we view the path towards convergence and ultimately a hybrid cloud environment as a journey. It doesn’t happen overnight – and each of the steps (standardization, consolidation, virtualization, automation, self service infrastructure and applications) help optimize your current IT infrastructure while laying the groundwork for cloud-based approaches. And we have a range of solutions that simplify cloud adoption. We offer a full line of integrated cloud solutions. These solutions range from pre-packaged, turnkey cloud environments such as our HP VirtualSystem and HP CloudSystem to comprehensive, extensible, global-scale solutions. HP CloudSystem is a completely ‘converged infrastructure’ in a single system – a great example of the ‘fast track approach’ to get to convergenceIncludes everything from servers, storage, and networking all the way up to a service catalog for infrastructure and application provisioningHP CloudMaps greatly simplify and accelerate the set up of application templates in the service catalogWe also offer an extensive set of cloud consulting services that can help you identify ‘next steps’ that are uniquely appropriate for your organization.
Legacy data center have become silos – costly, complex, lots of choreography (OpEx), too many people involvedThe processes to get things done are cumbersome and time consuming, unsustainable: IT is at a breaking pointThe example above shows how complicated it can be to deliver an application infrastructure. It requires many processes and teams coordinating to order the system, locate equipment, secure approvals, set up the servers, storage, networking, load and patch the OS, virtualization and application software, and bring it all online. Many of you have probably experienced this. When the business requests a new application from IT, can take weeks or months until the application is up and running. We set out years ago to solve this problem, automate the steps, accelerate service delivery and improve service quality.
At lot of our competitors have adopted the term converged infrastructure, when we look at the competitive landscape we see three broad categories of converged systems:Reference architectures – a set of validated designs with a recipe on how to build the system but with a fair amount of flexibility in the configurationPre-Intergrated systems – ones that are ordered as a system and usually pre-integrated at the factoryCloud Systems that build upon the converged system with cloud management softwareThe cloud solutions is the focus of this presentation and here we see the main competition to HP CloudSystem was:IBM with PureFlex and Smart Cloud SoftwareVCE Vblock plus VmwareVcloud directorNetApp-Cisco FlexPod plus cloud softwareOracle’s Exalogic Elastic Cloud aAnd a minor competitor in this area – Dell with their Virtual Integrated System – a software solution.-
HP CloudSystem Matrix is an integrated hardware, software, and services solution and due to the fact that we include blades with Virtual Connect, you not only can do virtual provisioning, but also physical provisioning. In addition, we support for HP servers also Matrix recovery management. The software code you get with HP CloudSystem Matrix is exactly the same – just when you run it on HP platforms – specifically on HP blades with VirtualConnect the functionality is richer. The virtual resource pools managed by HP CloudSystem Matrix software can be seamlessly part of the richer HP CloudSystem Matrix implementation, as they will be seen as an expanded virtual resource pool which can be provisioned as needed.