HP Converged Infrastructure – Converging to the Cloud

The forces of business presented to the IT organisation today drive us to consider new ways of resolving the key issues of agility, time to market, resilience and the shape of our IT investment. As we drive to resolve these business questions, we are presented with related issues such as the efficient and effective use of power, managing the sprawl of physical and virtual resources, exploding network costs and complexity, and the productivity of our IT resources. Read how to become the catalyst for change by adopting a powerful new approach to IT resource management that will keep your company one step ahead of the competition. HP Converged Infrastructure can revolutionise the way you manage your IT infrastructure and transform to business oriented services.

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Building Cloud Shared Services – The Matrix

Get the benefits of shared services today with the industry's first integrated infrastructure platform that helps you double administrator productivity with payback of less than a year, built on HP BladeSystem, the industry’s leading blade architecture. BladeSystem Matrix converges computer, storage and network resources and can be easily purchased and quickly deployed. Learn how you can instantly adjust to dynamic business demands and transform the economics of your data centre.

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Sponsor Session: Architecting the ideal Converged Infrastructure

Join Senior HP and VMware architects in this revealing exposé of key steps and architectural considerations you must take to deliver business advantage when moving to your converged infrastructure. Citing actual customer cases, our joint senior presenters will show how you can avoid pitfalls and make key decisions to ensure maximum availability, build systems that rapidly respond and allow the IT investment cycle to align with business investment. This presentation will take a practical approach to deliver practical answers. Match you mind with our best minds!

Transforming Infrastructure into "as-a-service" – The Practical Steps

Everybody talks about as-a-service. Learn from experts who have weathered the journey and understand what are the first few "practical steps" your organisation can take to introduce this new perspective on service delivery. Learn how HP‘s Converged Infrastructure can deliver private, public cloud services as well as drive traditional IT workloads.

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Manage your physical and virtual environments through one pane of glass

Want to increase your line of sight and free up your time to focus on innovation? By utilising tools from HP Insight Control Environment suite, learn how extensions for VMWare Virtual Centre can deliver powerful HP hardware management capabilities to virtualisation administrators. Extend the power of iLO and Proliant power management to enable more comprehensive centralised monitoring, remote control and power optimisation, combining the physical and virtual views, and bring better control to your environment.

Technologies demonstrated: - iLO and SIM into VMWare Virtual Centre

Extending EVA ease-of-use to your DR requirements

Make the most of powerfully simple enterprise class storage for the midsize customer, with the additional power of blades. Learn how the combination of the simple management interface of the Storageworks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), continuous access (CA) remote replication solution, with a Proliant BladeSystem SAN boot environment, is a serious combination to meet your disaster requirements. This bundling will enable your business to build a total disaster-recovery solution stack, certified from the ground up by HP, providing peace of mind, and increased availability.

Technologies demonstrated: - EVA, CA, Blades

Simplifying and stabilising your enterprise desktop management

Learn how HP is innovating end point management, offering simplification of their corporate desktop device, true integration of hardware (including Intel VPro), software management (including Windows 7 migration), and application distribution. Uncover how to leverage desired state windows patch management, ensuring your devices remain automatically patched, and take advantage of application usage metering. Without the need of a third party solution, this will enable you to reduce your application costs from over licensing, or reduce your compliance risk due to under licensing.

Technologies demonstrated: - Client Automation Suite

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Increase your line of sight - Real-time planning and reporting

Use technology even more effectively to drive business advantage with HP Capacity Planner. Gain business advantage by knowing instantly how your server fleet is performing, both physical and virtual, adjusting to dynamic business demands. Learn more about HP Capacity Advisor, an integrated tool for ongoing capacity planning that can simulate placement of application workloads, and help improve server utilisation. It will enable your organisation to build a flexible server infrastructure, optimise server resources while reducing cost and complexity.

Technologies demonstrated: - Capacity Advisor

The newest HP Blade – the Next Generation Integrity Superdome

The HP Superdome has long dominated the broadest range of high-end performance benchmarks. Integrity servers powered by new the Intel® Itanium® processor 9300 series restore flexibility and innovation to IT. Read how HP is rewriting the rules of enterprise technology as we take you to a new but evolutionary and innovative platform, far surpassing existing systems in terms of RAS, virtualisation and processing efficiency. This session gives you an in-depth view of this platform and how it can drive better business outcomes.

Technologies demonstrated: - Modular Scale-Up Blades, HP-UX and Virtualisation

The Unified Communications Experience (Joint HP and Microsoft session)

Demand for unified communications (UC) and collaboration technologies is growing rapidly. Read about the vision that HP and Microsoft share for business productivity solutions built on open, software-based platforms that work with the applications and systems people know and use today.

Technologies demonstrated: -Services ranging from assessment, architecture planning and design to implementation, monitoring, management and support for software, hardware, network, server, storage and infrastructure components in the shared portfolio.

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Efficiently manage Power and Cooling in your Datacentre - Systems Insight Manager 6.0 is here!

Learn about new advanced features of the industry's best-practice management tool, HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 just released! With improved centralised monitoring and control of datacenter power consumption and thermal output, deliver a physical view of your environment, showing better accountability to the business. This will enable you to throttle your environment to reduce power and cooling requirements of ProLiant servers, to an amount that accurately reflects the workload of your servers, freeing up your maintenance budget, to then reinvest into innovation.

Technologies demonstrated: - SIM V6.0

FlexFabric for the network future

Network teams are faced with a race to build out data centre network capacity and effectively provision connectivity at an increasing speed. To keep pace, IT organisations need a network architecture that is more coherent, flexible, and agile. Learn about FlexFabric, and how HP is combining the best standards-based networking technologies (such as FCoE and CEE) with a new modular architecture that optimises the full range of virtualisation capabilities while meeting business requirements for both low TCO, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for IT governance and compliance.

Technologies demonstrated: - FlexFabric

• Download HP FlexFabric whitepaper
• Download IDC article - The Changing Face of Networking

Secure wireless access and threat mitigation

Wireless networks provide advances in organisational collaboration and productivity however they also bring new security concerns. With the network perimeter no longer ending at the physical boundary of the corporate walls, If not well secured, wireless LANs can cause a great threat to the business. Learn about the HP ProCurve defense-in-depth wireless security solution, how it safeguards the integrity of the corporate network, supports compliance requirements, and ultimately securing the access into your private corporate information and the wired network itself.

Technologies demonstrated: - MultiService Mobility Access Points (MAPs), MultiService Mobility Controllers (MSCs), RF Manager

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• Download "Is Your WLAN Helping You Comply with Security Guidelines of the PCI Standard?" whitepaper
• Download UIDC article - The Changing Face of Networking

From "Just-in-case" to "Just-in-time" – Automating IT Service Delivery

The rush to virtualisation and cloud-based infrastructure solves old problems and presents new ones. Next-generation data centres won’t deliver all desired benefits unless operational complexity, cost and efficiency are well managed. IT service delivery must be treated as a packaged-goods manufacturing process – where “best practice” systems and automation are essential to deliver predictable, timely, cost-effective quality services. Learn how to “flip the ratios” from 30% innovation / 70% maintenance to 70:30 with a reduced budget.

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Clouds cast shadows – Optimise your Private Cloud

Today's private cloud innovation could become tomorrow's thunderstorm. Far from simplifying operations, private cloud technologies increase complexity unless well-planned and Well managed. The realities of cloud means you are crossing many boundaries – services, applications, operating systems, hypervisors and infrastructure. How will your organisation cope? Realising the promise of private cloud means understanding your deliverables, building-in elasticity and automating key processes. Without these considerations, your cloud investment will not realise its true potential.

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Sponsor Session: Dynamic Data Centre - Building the Foundation for the Cloud

Today’s data centre investments set the stage for new infrastructure opportunities in the future. The first wave of virtualisation and consolidation has provided a key learning –building a dynamic data centre requires a more strategic approach. In this session, we’ll look at how Microsoft approaches infrastructure for critical online services such as Azure, Bing, and Hotmail and how these best practices are being applied in some of our leading customers today. We’ll also cover the financial case for the private cloud and how HP and Microsoft are pioneering the next-generation infrastructure-to-application data centre.

Green is Gold – Seek Nuggets not Silver Bullets

Introducing automation in IT organisation may tempt you to aim for the stars, but it starts with the basics: Know what your people are doing – identify relevant activity areas to automate. HP’s leading Management software portfolio combined with HP’s best-practice implementation, education and ‘as-a-service’ service offerings, can help your organisation contain risks and reduce operating cost to maintain capital advantage of V12N through automation.

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Automating health checks to save time and money

One of the many areas calling out for automation is the “health check” – a sequence of tasks and activities used to verify that something is working as expected. Read about the ease with which HP Operations Orchestration can be used to build, deploy and run automated health checks into a complex heterogeneous environment. This will enable you to save development and deployment time, allow health check to be run anytime, anywhere, by anyone, and liberate real cash flow for other IT innovation.

Technologies demonstrated: - Operations Orchestration

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• Download Business Benefits of Automating Business Services: An In-depth Customer Survey
• Download IT Operations with Event Consolidation and Process Automation whitepaper
• Download Runbook automation is critical to virtualization success whitepaper
• Download Achieve rapid return on investment (ROI) by automating common IT processes in your data center environment whitepaper

HP’s NEW mission critical converged infrastructure – blades like no other

Pay-as-you grow scalability. Read about the modular approach to HP Integrity Blade servers powered by the new Intel® Itanium® processor 9300. Delivering up to 9x the performance of traditional systems and expandable design, HP Integrity Blades are the ideal choice for your mission-critical applications and enterprise class databases.

Technologies demonstrated: - Modular Scale-Up Blades, HP-UX and Virtualisation

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Virtualisation at the SAN fabric level with SVSP

Do you want to improve storage asset efficiency, simplify operations, and lower Storage TCO? Learn about SAN Virtualisation Services Platform (SVSP), with new capabilities and management with V3.0, enabling the pooling and sharing of all FC SAN storage resources across HP and non-HP storage resources. Read how SVSP can enable high scalability, top performance, and high availability of all SAN resources, bringing substantial improvements to managing enterprise storage, reducing administration costs, and improving asset utilisation.

Technologies demonstrated: - SVSP

• Download Closing critical IT gaps and driving towards converged infrastructure with storage virtualisation whitepaper

Managing virtual sprawl and increasing customer satisfaction with Business Automation

Managing the virtual sprawl requires more than just a few new tools. The pressure of time and cost means you can't have too many consoles. Virtualisation means your server administrator is now a network administrator too. The complexity of the new Virtual world increases risk of error - and consequences. Learn how to increase customer satisfaction by bringing together HP's Business Service Management and Automation tools, so you can focus on the right tasks, and deliver outcomes with fewer errors.

Technologies demonstrated: - Operations Orchestration, Business Availability Centre (BAC), Server Automation, Operations Manager I-Series

• Download Business Benefits of Automating Business Services: An In-depth Customer Survey
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Save time and cost - Automate your infrastructure NOW with Insight Orchestration

Do you need to deliver infrastructure to the business faster, repurposing resources as needs change? Learn about Insight Orchestration, and how by designing standard infrastructure templates, using drag-and-drop design tools, you can present a catalog within a self-service portal. Requests could route through your approval process, automatically provision infrastructure services from the pool of resources, for the specified lease period. This enables you to efficiently utilise resources, delivering infrastructure more consistently, and reducing configuration errors that lead to downtime.

Technologies demonstrated: - Insight Orchestration

Uncovering WHEN you get a return on VDI

Do you believe that Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is definitely the way forward for your organisation, but unsure how to justify it to others, or need help with uncovering all of the direct and indirect savings? Learn about VDI from HP, how by centralising your desktops you could be seeing ROI within 3 months. This session goes through a typical example, showing you how to achieve strong data security, accelerate desktop deployment, and reduce desktop cost of ownership.

Technologies demonstrated: - VDI

Virtualisation from Desktop to Data centre – Microsoft Hyper-V and System Centre Showcase

With HP and Microsoft’s Infrastructure-to-application model, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 and System Centre, together with HP hardware, software and services can provide the best end-to-end virtualisation experience. Learn how HP and Microsoft technologies can deliver an entire virtualisation solution from the desktop to the data centre using the products you’re familiar with and avoiding the traps of niche technologies.

Technologies demonstrated: - Virtualisation on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, Windows 7, System Center

How to keep compliance and costs under control

Managing IT delivery like an automated factory requires planning, processes and automation where appropriate. Most importantly, it depends on accurate, useful information to ensure you are delivering what is required, on-time, and to budget. This clinic brings together the entire HP Software BTO portfolio, to show what an automated IT delivery organisation’s “day in the life” may look like, and give examples of where to focus for rapid benefit.

Technologies demonstrated: - Operations Orchestration, Service Asset Config Management Using Business Availability Centre, Operations Manager I-Series, Asset Manager, Service Manager

• Download Business Benefits of Automating Business Services: An In-depth Customer Survey
• Download IT Operations with Event Consolidation and Process Automation whitepaper
• Download Seamless physical and virtual server management whitepaper
• Download Quantifying the benefits of HP Server Automation whitepaper

Realising multi-site simplicity with Lefthand P4000

Are you looking for a powerful yet cost-effective multi-site storage solution? Learn about the Lefthand P4000 SAN Solutions and its included high-availability features, that can provide applications with continuous data availability in the event of a disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure. This will enable you to stripe and protect multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, across multiple sites, eliminating any single point of failure in the SAN.

Technologies demonstrated: - P4000 G2

• Download Using HP StorageWorks D2D Backup Systems in an IP SAN with the HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN Solutions whitepaper
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Innovation as a Service – Someone hand me a Roadmap!

CxO’s are under pressure to be innovative to deliver new business outcomes: cut costs, enable growth, and manage carbon footprints. The barrier to innovation is the enterprise’s IT portfolio, which is so complex that on average 70% of the IT budget is spent keeping the lights on leaving only 30% for innovation. Forward thinking CxO’s are taking a services view of IT: on the supply side by procuring IT resources as a service – from hardware through to enterprise class applications; and on the demand side by offering business services to the enterprise – bundles of data, applications, and infrastructure that deliver business value.

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The Road to Low Carbon IT

As an example of “Innovation as a Service”, we investigate the growing imperative for comprehensive Carbon accounting and governance programs. Organisations must move swiftly to implement to meet client, shareholder and regulatory expectations. The key to enterprise carbon transformation is the combination of “Green IT” and “IT for Greening your Business”. By aligning HP technology with environment and business strategies, HP’s service develops a roadmap to improve an organisation’s total carbon footprint. Every process, action and product can be tracked and measured: what gets measured gets managed.

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Sponsor Session: Application Modernisation - Cloud-ready applications delivered as a service

While much is talked of the infrastructure approach to the cloud, what does this really mean for the real value driver of IT – business applications? How should collaboration technologies form part of everything your organisation does? How can you put powerful business intelligence tools in the hands of the many, not the few? In this session we’ll look at how the right approach to modernising business applications can transform your IT organisation into an internal Software-as-a-Service provider.

Building your Roadmap to Green & Lean Enterprise Applications

Innovation-as-a-Service offers new opportunities through a modernised IT portfolio powering the business. A roadmap is imperative for defining the best and lowest risk approach to achieving modernised, green applications. A roadmap can only be crafted through a full understanding of the business and a future state architecture. Understanding the needs of the enterprise means foundational work will only need to be done once. Measurement along the way is crucial to proving business value and refining the next iteration of your Roadmap.

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X-ray your legacy applications

Learn how Visual Intelligence Explorer can give you the x-ray ability you need before legacy application surgery. Read about VI Explorer used on actual source code for cloned code discovery, visualisation, module comparisons, and transformation estimates.

Technologies demonstrated: - Visual Intelligence Tool

Allow greater flexibility to deal with change - Adopt Virtual Connect

Wire once! Consolidate Networking with HP BladeSystem. Would you like your server administrators to be more self-sufficient, and reduce time to implement connections to network and storage? Learn about Virtual Connect for HP BladeSystem, and how it simplifies the setup of server connections to LANs and SANs. This will also cover Virtual Connect Flex-10, the first interconnect technology to reduce the cost and amount of network equipment needed compared to switches, while providing precise bandwidth control for every server Ethernet connection.

Technologies demonstrated: - Virtual Connect

• Download HP Virtual Connect technology for the HP BladeSystem c-Class whitepaper

Remote-site protection with D2D low-bandwidth replication

Are you struggling with complicated and costly data protection, and need a disk-based system that automatically consolidates multiple servers into a single backup process, even across slow links? Learn about the HP D2D Backup Systems with HP Dynamic de-duplication, allowing you to retain more data on disk for longer, and reduce the network bandwidth needed for remote data replication. With more cost-effective replication, these systems allow automated, centralised backup of remote sites, and deliver a practical disaster recovery solution for data centres.

Technologies demonstrated: - VLS/D2D Low Bandwidth Replication

• Download Using HP StorageWorks D2D Backup Systems in an IP SAN with the HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN Solutions whitepaper

Making the cloud a reality

There’s been a great deal of confusion in the industry about the cloud. In simplest terms, the cloud is the next stage in the evolution of the internet. Through the cloud, everything will be delivered as a service, from computing power to business processes to personal interactions. This clinic demonstrates the steps to making the cloud a tangible reality using HP Infrastructure and Services, so that you can realise the full potential of your assets

Technologies demonstrated: - Cloud Vision Workshop, Building a roadmap, design and implementation services

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Manage explosive file growth with IBRIX X9000

Are you faced with hard-to-manage explosive data growth? Learn about the benefits of the StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems that can scale-out beyond traditional NAS in both capacity and performance. Designed to be extremely scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient, the X9000 allows the administrator to manage up to multi-petabyte environments at the highest density possible. With a pay-as-you-grow architecture and an all-inclusive feature set, eliminates storage over-provisioning or expensive add-ons, and is the platform for customers designing the next generation data center.

Technologies demonstrated: - Ibrix

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Migration options when deploying the latest HP Integrity servers

Create a path to the new Integrity Platforms with the latest HP-UX migration tools. Learn about the various ways you can migrate your HP-UX environments using the latest tools and techniques. This session covers Physical to Virtual (P2V) & V2P migrations, DRD Rehost and the latest Ignite functionality to move between different servers. In addition HP9000 Containers are featured, showing how legacy HP-UX 11.11 systems will be able to be migrated onto the latest HP Integrity servers.

Technologies demonstrated: - P2P, V2P, Ignite, containers

• Download Exploring DRD Rehosting in HP-UX 11i v3 whitepaper
• Download Successful System Cloning using Ignite-UX whitepaper

Align storage cost and usage with Utility Ready Storage

Would you like to scale storage capacity to meet variable demands and SLA's, making the most of your budget ? Learn about Utility Ready Storage (URS) and how storage as a utility service provides the flexibility to dial capacity up and down, paying only for used capacity, when you use it. URS can help improve visibility and utilisation across your consolidated storage environment, align your costs with your actual usage, respond quickly to changing capacity demands, and short-circuit your storage procurement cycles.

Technologies demonstrated: - URS

• Download HP Utility Ready Storage brochure

Deliver a Business in a Box - your complete IT Infrastructure in 1!

Deliver innovation in a pre-provisioned IT Infrastrucutre! Fit all your medium or remote office requirements into one tidy package. Read how we combine ProLiant Blades, Virtual Connect, the hypervisor of your choice, and StorageWorks Lefthand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance, to provide a powerful solution for small to medium business or remote branch offices. The collection of these HP technologies will enable you to reduce switching and racking costs, create a modular stable building block for growth, and simplify deployment.

Technologies demonstrated: - C-Class Blades

HP-UX for your Critical Applications

Learn why customers bet their business on HP-UX. Read about recent announcements for HP-UX including: Socket-based licensing, HP Insight Dynamics availability for HP-UX and HP BladeSystem Matrix for HP-UX. More than ever HP is giving mission critical & HP-UX customers even greater reason to consider HP-UX for their mission critical requirements. Learn that an HP-UX virtualised solution is the best solution for your mission critical virtualisation needs today.

Technologies demonstrated: - HP-UX for your Critical Applications