HP has expanded its Hybrid Delivery offerings portfolio that allows enterprises to improve agility and respond to changing customer and citizen needs.
The CloudSystem is an integrated and open platform for building and managing services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments.
The offering now includes ‘dual bursting’ capability that help clients manage uneven demands; and allows clients to scale resources up and down either via a public cloud provider or through an onsite pay-as-you-go cloud model, said the company.
The company has also launched CloudAgile, a comprehensive program that spans the full HP enterprise portfolio including CloudSystem.
The offering enhances financial flexibility for a broad range of service providers, by providing participants with direct access to HP’s global sales force and its worldwide network of channel partners, and opportunities to deliver new cloud services.
The company said that its Hybrid Delivery services enable clients to select the best method of delivery for their organisations, tuned to their environments, while its Support Services for CloudSystem provides a single point of accountability with integrated hardware and software support, 24/7 coverage, proactive problem prevention and automated HP Remote Support.
In addition, the CloudStart services extend the capabilities of CloudSystem to help clients define initial private cloud services, implement internal costing and chargeback, and comply with clients’ existing security and backup policies.
The new functionality automates deployments of basic apps, compliance monitoring and patch management in a private cloud.
Further, the new HP security services, available through the cloud, mitigate risk of security vulnerabilities, while lowering the financial commitment often required for security contracts.
The new enterprise cloud service includes: vulnerability scanning that reduces the risk of data loss or unauthorised access by reducing common security mistakes; vulnerability Intelligence provides information on newly discovered potential threats, enabling clients to take corrective actions with actionable information before an outage or network loss occurs.
HP has also announced enhancements to its Cloud Services Enablement for Communications as a Service (HP CSE for CaaS).
The enhanced services enable communications service providers to help their SMB customers take advantage of utility pricing and the flexibility of an on-demand services model, the company said.
HP enterprise business sales and marketing executive vice-president Jan Zadak said the company’s experience, breadth of portfolio and global service delivery organisation are integral to helping businesses and governments take advantage of cloud as part of their journeys to becoming Instant-On Enterprises.
