Better Performance. Lower Cost.
To remain competitive, you need to exploit every facet of your operations for potential savings and cost reduction. As a result, you likely face having to choose between cost and quality in areas such as storage management.
Fortunately, there is a way to substantially reduce long-term costs, yet still ensure your storage solution has the accessibility, security and scalability it needs.
A Value-Based Approach
At HP we take a value-based approach that aligns data with the appropriate level of accessibility, performance and business value it merits. This approach enables you to:
- Save more than 30 percent by optimizing data storage placement
- Improve performance, availability and security of critical data by ensuring high-performance storage when needed
- Gain clarity and understanding of your storage environment and how it can be maximized
- Create an information lifecycle management strategy to guide future migrations
- Reduce waste by using high-capacity/low-power tiers and consolidating data across multiple locations
Using this method, we prioritize and appropriately place your data across our four primary storage tiers:
- Enterprise Storage: Provides a scalable, highly available service in a performance-based storage area network (SAN) environment
- Departmental SAN: Accommodates traditional data center demands using managed services tailored to meet typical application requirements and business loads. This allows for a cost-effective entry point into a sophisticated storage area network environment
- Departmental NAS: Supports small to large non-enterprise applications or small groups with a dedicated, centralized network attached storage (NAS) solution designed for larger Internet Protocol (IP) environments. This flexible service provides a “stepping stone” as business requirements change
- Workplace Storage: Provides a dedicated, remote NAS solution used by end-users, small to medium groups for consolidating several file shares or application servers sharing networked attached storage
Your vital, mission-critical data that requires near-constant availability and high performance is given top priority and receives high-quality storage. Less-critical data is placed on a more appropriate, cost-efficient tier.
Creating Substantial Bottom-Line Value
This process is helping clients around the world realize substantial savings while enhancing the performance and availability of their data. For example:
- A major insurer projected a three-year net benefit of $945,000 driven by improved productivity, IT cost savings and lease payment reductions.
- A large manufacturer achieved considerable savings, when performance improvements cut the time required for many business transactions in half.
- A sizeable state automobile association projected a five-year net benefit of $29.5 million based on hardware savings, cost avoidance, increased productivity and reduction in support costs.
Safe, Secure and Accessible
When you work with HP, you'll enjoy the peace of mind that comes with having one of the industry?s most trusted and reputable names in data storage. Our data storage credentials include:
- Managing more than 40 petabytes of storage
- Managing more than 300 petabytes of backup data
- Earning leader position in Gartner Magic Quadrant reports for five consecutive years
Choose HP
Find out how HP can help you meet increasing IT demands while uncovering new and innovative ways to boost performance and control costs.
For more information about what HP Enterprise Services can do for you, submit a business inquiry.