Make the most of your data centerConverge your IT and data centers with HP Critical Facilities Strategy Services

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Is your data center working for you?Businesses like yours are focusing on faster turnaround times, higher customer satisfaction, and rapid fulfillment of customer needs. While your IT organization is most likely doing everything possible to meet and exceed these requirements, there are two questions about your data centers that you should ask yourself:

1. Are your data centers able to keep up with the demands of your business?

2. Are your IT and data centers working hand-in-hand to make your business thrive?

If the answer to these questions is anything other than a resounding “yes,” then read on. HP Critical Facilities Strategy (CFS) Services can help you align IT and data centers with your business needs, and get them to work together for higher returns.

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Bring together two key players in your business growthAs a company in the 21st century, you’re no stranger to today’s industry trends—virtualization, cloud computing, converged infrastructure, green IT, high-density computing, and more. In fact, your organization may be exploring or implementing them right now.

HP Critical Facilities Strategy (CFS) Services—a key element of the HP Critical Facilities (CF) Services portfolio—can address these emerging technologies from the facility context. You, in turn, benefit from our years of practical consulting expertise with physical data centers, and our ability to plan, right-size, and implement strategy according to your specific needs:

• Understand The services can help you understand the issues your data center may be facing and find a solution for them now, and in the future.

• Converge Bringing together servers, storage, and networks within a data center that is not designed for converged functionalities does not make sense. Consequently, a major part of HP CFS Services is dedicated to helping your data centers and IT work together—within a Converged Infrastructure context—so you can make the most of your investments. This integration with your business strengthens your ability to meet customer demands.

• Align HP CFS Services can give you a clear idea of how your data center fits into the future plans of your infrastructure and the role it needs to play in helping you grow.

• Data Center Sourcing You can choose from multiple sourcing options that include your own data centers, hosted data centers, or cloud services. We help you determine which options are right for you.

• Save The services impact your total cost of ownership and return on investment. Since strategy is the main driver of HP CFS Services, you can make use of your capital investments and manage ongoing operational costs related to space, power, cooling, and maintenance.

• Prepare The services help you plan for—and capitalize on—HP Converged Infrastructure and cloud service delivery requirements.

HP CFS Services includes Data Center Trusted Advisor, Data Center Roadmap, Data Center Technology Planning, as well as a number of standardized consulting services. These offerings help you strategize, envision, and act upon building the data centers of the future, respectively. We can provide the entire suite of services as part of a programmatic approach, or you can use the specific services that meet your needs.

Figure 1 Data center strategy and sourcing options based on service delivery and IT load

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• Aims at high levels of modularity and scalability

• Includes tight correlation between IT and DC facilities within an operational framework

• Helps solve the problems associated with multiple objectives of internal stakeholders

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Data Center Trusted Advisor—expertise by your sideThe Trusted Advisor Service is a long-term, retainer-based service that provides you with the expertise of a professional consultant advisor. The consultant becomes an effective part of your program team as an advisor to the decision-making board and steering committee for facility decisions and IT linkage, and works with them on a regular basis.

How it works

• The Trusted Advisor role typically lasts from 12 to 36 months, but can also cover a time period that you identify as critical to your business development.

• The service provides you with professional program leadership and support throughout the process of planning, designing, constructing, or retrofitting data center facilities. You can tap into a wealth of data center expertise and rely on a partnership that brings our global experience to your doorstep.

• The Trusted Advisor is not a specific person; rather, it is a lead consultant with a team of resources to aid throughout the strategic development process or data center program. The Trusted Advisor can mitigate common pitfalls that can be expensive and disruptive to your business, and prevent you from undertaking significant but unnecessary capital costs.

Key benefits

The role is typically led by one or two HP CFS consultants.

• CFS consultants provide expertise in the areas of data center program governance, leadership, best practices, and industry standards, so you can manage your data center programs better. We make sure that the consultants are professionals with years of experience and a thorough understanding of how data centers function.

• Consultants enable the data center program to develop and move deliberately.

• Consultants use their expertise to guide you in rationalizing your IT strategy and integrating the requirements with a relevant data center framework. The consultants also help rationalize your data center model, framework, and specific data center space/power/cooling requirements.

• Consultants provide trending and advice on emerging technologies, energy management, facility management systems, facility designs, models/topologies, and more.

Figure 2 An HP Trusted Advisor for data center strategy

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Data Center Roadmap—chart your futurePlan for the future of your data centers with the Data Center Roadmap program. The entire CFS portfolio is blended into a seamless, systematic approach that addresses the entire lifecycle of the data center. This roadmap service represents the basis of our approach for our turnkey services. It is a highly structured framework that uses deliberate methodology, HP Critical Facilities Services intellectual property, standardized and structured processes, in-house toolsets, and delivery templates to help you map out the growth plan of your data centers in terms of IT, space, and agility.

How it works

• The engagement is divided into two core tracks—current-state and future-state—and is spread across a schedule of 12 to 16 weeks.

• We review:

− The business model, strategies, drivers, and plans

− The risks profile—including business impact analysis, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity planning (BCP)

− The current state of IT frameworks, environments, strategies, plans, and instances

− The state of the existing data center model/topology, framework, and facilities environment

• We then put together a complete technology growth profile.

• We also conduct a gap analysis of the current data center model/ topology, framework, and facilities to determine their suitability as a part of the future-state data center framework.

• We develop the future-state data center strategy, plans, and roadmap based on your business objectives, risks, IT strategies/ plans, and technology growth profile.

• Finally, we deliver a comprehensive and detailed Data Center Roadmap report, as well as an executive presentation.

Key benefits

• The service provides a right-sized, practical, and relevant data center strategy that outlines current data center lifecycles, the suitability of your current data center(s) to fit into the future-state framework, and multiple future-state options. It gives you a 10-year growth profile based on your IT growth projections.

• We deliver final reports within weeks, complete with a recommended future-state data center framework, model/topology, number of sites, sizes of facilities, distances between the sites, and more. This helps you implement faster and save on the costs involved in running and maintaining your data centers.

• The service employs a highly structured delivery framework with accurate, repeatable delivery tool sets and processes.

• It completely integrates your business, risks (if any), technology, and data center facilities requirements.

• It provides a snapshot of your current data centers and helps predict how much longer your data centers can remain functional, what you can do to use them for as long as possible, and the way forward.

• It gives you a practical and right-sized future-state data center roadmap.

Figure 3An HP Data Center Roadmap to assess and analyze your current state and plan the future

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• Focus on infrastructure, operational processes, and IT hardware growth modeling

• Initial Facilities and Topology Gap Analysis

• Focus on current vs. future state

• Generating long- term strategies

• Look for opportunities for transformation or enhancement

• Development of a strategic plan

• Focus on bringing IT and facilities together

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Data Center Technology Planning— build itThe Data Center Technology Planning Service starts off from where the Data Center Roadmap Service for your data centers ends. It uses the outcomes of the roadmap service to develop conceptual data center layouts and gives you much-needed input to the overall data center design process, so that your requirements are integrated into the program.

How it works

• The timeframe for the Data Center Technology Planning Service typically lasts from 10 to 12 weeks. It can also be adapted appropriately to your specific engagement.

• The engagement typically starts after determining your roadmap—once you choose one of the recommended options and it goes through your approval and funding process—and moves forward with the execution of the data center program. We present the conceptual IT/network design criteria, in the form of a basis of design, to set the stage for the actual design phases of your data center facility. (Please note that this engagement does not include architectural or mechanical and electrical [MEP] designs at this phase; this happens only during the facilities design phases.)

• The IT and network teams are also involved in the data center technology planning process.

• The service aligns your IT strategy with supporting data centers, while providing adequate space, power, and cooling projections over time to prevent future surprises.

Key benefits

• The Data Center Technology Planning Service provides professional conceptual design expertise to help you make the most of today’s high-density data centers, and integrates roadmap outputs into conceptual design criteria and layouts.

• Because your IT and facilities requirements are integrated at the initial conceptual phase, you see huge value early on in the facilities design phase, enabling the program to move forward smoothly and efficiently.

• Since you have already completed and approved the conceptual criteria and details, you can avoid up-front mistakes and reduce time involved once the program reaches the design phase.

Your partner, your needsWhen it comes to choosing a partner for your data center programs, consider HP. Here’s why:

Focus on innovation

For years, we have created technologies and services that help you get better at what you do. HP Converged Infrastructure, HP cloud computing, and the hybrid delivery model are just some examples of our dedication to innovative solutions that free up your time to help you focus more on your business.

Build on future technologies

We have designed services specifically based around converged IT and data center environments to create an HP Converged Infrastructure in your organization that is ready for the future. We’re well-equipped to help you accelerate business growth.

Find the right solution for you

Our client-driven approach has no sourcing bias. We work with you to find the right data center solution for your business.

Plan, design, and transform

Our consistent global delivery across all product and services families translates into cost-efficient, reliable, and flexible data center expertise for you. It also means that our team of experts can deliver—around the world—to solve your most critical data center issues.

See the bigger picture

We take a macro view of the IT and data center frameworks implemented across your organization, with a clear understanding of how all the components come together. We are the industry “connector,” bringing solutions suited for your business from industry leaders such as Microsoft®, Oracle, SAP, Cisco, and others.

Use only what you need

Our service offerings are flexible, which means that you use only what you need, when you need it.

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For more informationFor more information on HP CFS Services and how they can transform your data center, visit: hp.com/go/cfs or email lhinman@hp.com.

Technology with a human touchToday, it’s crucial to have complete command over your technology environment. You need a trusted advisor who understands where your business should go and the technology decisions you need to make to get there. Combining technology intelligence and know-how with business intelligence, our service professionals have been helping organizations across the globe meet their evolving needs. They can do the same for you.

It’s about real partnership. Our consultants and support experts can work with you to transform IT, converge infrastructure, and keep technology running.

Connect with our service experts to explore ways to do more with your technology investments. Visit hp.com/go/tsconnect/

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