HP Unveils Solutions To Ease SMEs' Mobility Woes

HP has announced new offerings to help small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) prepare their technology infrastructures for a growing mobile workforce.

With more than 1.1 billion mobile appliances in use worldwide, organisations of all sizes are challenged by the need to access, manage and secure mobile devices and the data generated by them. HP Converged Infrastructure provides the ideal platform for secure continuous access to data and applications. With partner solutions from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware, HP also delivers improved employee accessibility and productivity as the requirements for mobility continue to grow.

New offerings from HP include technology solutions and services, as well as training programs that enable resource-challenged SMEs to simplify IT while enhancing collaboration in an increasingly mobile world.

New HP solutions and services enable organisations to:

• Improve security with HP Client Virtualisation SME virtual desktop solution. The solution includes reference architectures—such as HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) servers and client virtualisation software from Citrix, Microsoft or VMware—that protects company data by storing user profiles and data on a centralised server. This enables SMEs to provide secure access to applications from thin clients, laptops, tablets and smartphones. Information remains protected on the server even if the device is lost.

• Reduce risk and complexity of client virtualisation projects with HP Client Virtualisation, Analysis and Modeling, a prepackaged service that analyses the existing IT environment to simplify and speed deployment of virtualisation for medium-size organisations and help them embrace mobile technology.

• Increase uptime for a growing mobile workforce with HP Business Protection Solutions, preconfigured reference architectures based on HP Converged Infrastructure and best practices in data protection, network security and disaster recovery. These customised solutions guide SMEs in the design of a risk-mitigation program to ensure continued accessibility to company data from a mobile device.

To support the acceleration of mobile devices, HP and its partners are helping SMEs improve employee productivity and drive business efficiency.

Small and medium-size enterprises need simple, reliable and economical computing to support growing data and new applications across wired and wireless environments. New solutions based on HP Converged Infrastructure help companies to:

• Simplify network management with the expanded HP Multi-Service Router (MSR) Series, an all-in-one, customisable platform that allows clients to streamline deployment of networks by integrating security and wired and wireless networking features into one device.

• Reduce power costs with the HP 1910 8G Switch Series, which features energy-saving Power over Internet (PoE) technology to deliver simple, reliable and cost-effective network access for rich-media applications, such as voice and video.

• Address the explosion of unstructured data from a growing mobile workforce with increased capacity and simplified management featured with HP X5000 Storage. This highly available clustered network attached storage (NAS) platform reduces IT administration time for SMEs by ensuring users have access to file data from their mobile devices.