Too many applications. Too much customization. Underused server capacity. Operations costs that are spiraling upward. Increases in power and cooling costs. Too much or too little IT to meet business needs. And that's just the beginning of the challenges. HP Utility Services can help you overcome these challenges with a new approach to outsourcing that speeds the delivery of next-generation infrastructure benefits.
Application Operations and Infrastructure Management
HP Utility Services offer a prebuilt infrastructure with a design based on HP converged infrastructure innovations and delivered through highly automated processes and procedures. You will realize quicker infrastructure and application modernization at a reduced risk and cost.
We manage the transition and hosting of selected applications on an HP owned and managed infrastructure. You maintain ownership and management of your application while offloading application operations and infrastructure management to HP.
HP Utility Services leverages significant technology, services, and data center investments to deliver IT services. The results include:
- Quick access to a predefined and tested environment with the latest server, storage, power, and cooling technologies in a highly secure data center
- Reduced risk using the latest and most resilient architecture, automation, and end-to-end service management
- Best practices management using ITIL processes and tools
- Built-in technology refresh and flexible dial-up and dial-down capacity
- Lower, predictable costs with the financial advantages of expensing service versus making capital investments
- Reduced time, cost, and complexity of getting critical business applications into production
A Faster Way to a Converged Infrastructure and Application Modernization
HP Utility Services allows you to modernize business-critical applications faster on a predefined infrastructure delivered from high-density global data centers. Unlike traditional outsourcing which requires longer due diligence and in-depth negotiations and contracts, HP Utility Services provisions a standardized infrastructure that is optimized for the target applications. You can transition your application “as is”, stabilize on the new platform, and then modernize—or modernize at the outset. Your application can be up and running on a converged infrastructure within one of our secure and resilient data centers in less than 90 days, with additional processing or storage capacity provisioned in as little as a few days.
Critical Business Application Solutions
The initial offerings include infrastructure services for Microsoft Exchange Server, SAP, and other critical business applications. The standardized, optimized HP Utility Services solutions are available today for:
- Microsoft® Exchange 2007
- Standard services include Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2003, 2007 client support; personal and shared calendars, scheduling, contacts, distribution lists; anti-virus, mailbox backup and recovery, and more
- Optional services: mobile device support, additional mailbox storage, archiving, anti-spam/SMTP boundary services
- SAP R/3 4.7 or higher
- Standard services include integrated management of SAP Basis, web and middleware, database, servers, storage, network devices; SAP Operations (user administration, database administration, security management, patch management, backup and recovery, print management); and more
- Optional services: SAP upgrades, SAP third-party application basis management, SAP application maintenance and support
- Converged Infrastructure Services
- Standard services include provisioning predefined server and storage capacity and operating system software (HP-UX 11i, Red Hat and openSUSE Linux, Microsoft Windows 2003); infrastructure operations management, and more
- Optional service: Application operations management
Integrated, End-To-End Approach To Transition Your Applications
HP Utility Services enables a service-oriented architecture using proven methodologies, standardized and optimized infrastructures, ITIL best practices, and shared data center facilities to minimize time, cost, and risk. As an integrated service, HP Utility Services encompasses every aspect of application transition and ongoing operations management so you are well positioned to receive optimal business benefits from your applications in the shortest possible time.
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