HP Launches CloudStart to Fast Track Private Clouds

HP has announced HP CloudStart, for deploying an open and flexible private cloud environment. Built on an HP Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudStart simplifies and speeds private cloud deployments. Consisting of hardware, software and services, HP CloudStart empowers businesses to deliver pay-per-use services reliably and securely from a common portal, and it offers the ability to scale and deploy new services automatically.

With HP’s open architecture approach, clients are able to integrate their private clouds with third-party enterprise portals, public cloud services, usage billing packages and multiplatform resource management.

“To better serve the needs of their enterprises, clients are asking us to help them become internal service providers with the ability to deliver applications through a highly flexible private cloud environment,” said Gary M. Budzinski, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Technology Services, HP. “With CloudStart, HP is enabling clients to optimise applications for private cloud computing today, while providing a platform for a comprehensive, open and hybrid environment in the future.”

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HP CloudStart delivers private cloud compute service in 30 days

HP CloudStart is delivered by HP Cloud Consulting Services, which provides the expertise needed for clients to transform their existing delivery approaches into more efficient shared-services models.
HP BladeSystem Matrix, enhanced with HP Cloud Service Automation software and data services provided by HP StorageWorks, forms the backbone of the CloudStart offering. It enables clients to reduce provisioning times up to 80 percent with one-touch provisioning across infrastructure, applications and business services.

Other benefits include:

• Seventy-five percent reduction in compliance-management time through advanced automation and governance functionality;

• Improved business response time to changing market demands by delivering technology services on an as-needed basis rather than through a dedicated system;

• Simplified addition and management of pools of network, storage and server resources, including enhanced data services such as unified provisioning and disaster recovery on HP storage;

• Best-practice guidance from HP Services, which provides expertise in deploying, customising and executing on the long-term vision for creating a private cloud that is tuned specifically for the client’s environment.

“When CIOs have a simplified way to map their path to the private cloud, including all the necessary components from infrastructure and applications to services, they are more likely to identify a comprehensive and realistic deployment scenario for their organisation,” said Matt Eastwood, Group Vice President, Enterprise Platform Group, IDC. “With the HP CloudStart solution, clients now have a way to accelerate the adoption of service-oriented environments for a private cloud that matches the speed, flexibility and economies of public cloud without the risk or loss of control.”

HP also announced Cloud Maps for use with solutions from VMware, SAP AG, Oracle and Microsoft to significantly speed application deployment and reduce risk by providing engineered, tested and proven configurations. Cloud Maps are imported directly into client cloud environments, enabling them to rapidly build a catalog of cloud services for the business.