Brochure Fast-track to advanced hybrid cloud HP Helion CloudSystem

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1 Brochure Fast-track to advanced hybrid cloud HP Helion CloudSystem

2 Accelerate your journey to the cloud Why choose HP Helion CloudSystem? The industry s most complete, integrated, and open solution for building and managing clouds, HP Helion CloudSystem offers a fast, simple path to advanced hybrid cloud. Get up and running quickly install and deploy in hours, create cloud services in minutes Transition smoothly - manage traditional and new cloud-native services together Make all cloud users more productive with a consumer-inspired user interface and rich API access Gain control of hybrid cloud from a single platform with the broadest support of virtualization technologies and public clouds Grow as you need with a built-in upgrade path from basic infrastructure cloud services to the most advanced application cloud services Customers are attracted by the promise of the cloud to speed innovation, increase agility, and reduce costs. But to do that, organizations need help to understand how to integrate cloud approaches with their existing IT environments for the greatest return on their investment. IT organizations are challenged to build a cloud that is simple to use and to manage. They are concerned about making choices now that could lock them in for the future. And they need proven solutions that can deliver business value quickly and can grow with their needs. Ready for the new style of IT? For decades, IT followed a component-focused model, integrating an ever-growing number of elements into the data center, including hardware, storage, networking, and applications. This drove down component costs, but put the burden of integration on IT. Virtualization improved resource utilization through system consolidation and resource pooling, but added to the management complexity. Now, cloud computing has emerged, empowering users with automated self-service access to a range of services. To fully capitalize on cloud, IT needs to change the way it operates transitioning to a new model that delivers IT as a service. But how do you get to this new style of IT, and get there fast? Enter HP Helion CloudSystem your fast, easy on-ramp to the cloud. HP Helion CloudSystem is the industry s most complete, integrated, and open cloud solution that offers enterprises and service providers an easy path to advanced hybrid cloud. Get your cloud up and running quickly with CloudSystem, and smoothly transition to the new style of IT by building and managing clouds for traditional and cloud-native workloads. Key to Cloud Success: a smooth evolution For many organizations, success of a truly transformative cloud initiative begins with a smooth integration of existing and new technology investments, and continues along an evolutionary path. Good news for you: HP Helion CloudSystem excels as a facilitator of cloud evolution. With CloudSystem, you can leverage your existing infrastructure and hypervisor assets and manage traditional applications as cloud services, while also supporting new cloud-native workloads, and the new development and delivery methods associated with them. For example, existing CloudSystem customers can enjoy full investment protection while introducing powerful new OpenStack -based capabilities. CloudSystem enables your transition to cloud from previously virtualized non-cloud environments, or to start your journey from scratch with a new cloud environment.

3 HP the cloud leader Protect your investments with support for the vast majority of infrastructure hardware and operations management tools currently used by enterprises worldwide. CloudSystem supports a wide range of operating systems and virtualization technologies, including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat KVM. Built on OpenStack technology, CloudSystem also enables cloud-native applications to access and manipulate cloud resources directly via OpenStack programming interfaces HP leads the pack HP was recognized as the sole private cloud leader, whose combined solution scored highest in the evaluation for its current offering in Forrester Research, Inc. s, The Forrester Wave : Private Cloud Solutions, Q The overall leader HP was identified as the leader in an assessment of 11 vendors in the Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a Virtualization and Cloud Management Solution, Enterprise-grade OpenStack technology HP has invested heavily in OpenStack cloud management platform, building the entire HP Helion Cloud product portfolio on an OpenStack technology foundation. CloudSystem includes numerous OpenStack components, including Nova, Cinder, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, and Horizon. With CloudSystem, you ll benefit from consistent, open application programming interfaces (APIs) for hybrid cloud for integration and portability; flexible, plug-in technology to accelerate time-to-market; a dynamic community and ecosystem; and attractive economies of scale. Once your cloud is up and running, your use of it will grow and change, and you ll need a platform that can continue to meet your needs. You may begin with a focus on development and testing use cases, and add production service deployments over time. Simple infrastructure services may evolve into more complex, orchestrated services. Your catalog may grow to support platform and advanced software service delivery, you ll add tenants, and replace siloed private and public clouds with a well governed and elastic hybrid cloud. At each step along the way, you ll place extraordinary new demands on your cloud -- and you ll be glad you chose HP Helion CloudSystem, the one cloud platform that supports you, end-toend, through your entire cloud journey. Fast and easy on ramp to cloud Why struggle with complicated alternatives when HP Helion CloudSystem makes cloud so simple? Accelerate your time to value with a solution that is easy to install and easy to use. For a brand new cloud environment, choose a fully integrated HP Helion CloudSystem solution, delivered on ready-to-use, workload optimized HP ConvergedSystem infrastructure. These solutions leverage unique capabilities of HP s ConvergedSystem choices depending on your cloud workload needs, you can build your cloud on HP s intelligent compute and SAN offering or on a hyperconverged platform with compute and local storage. You ll be up and running in no time with powerful cloud technology that is simple to buy, manage, and support. Alternatively, you can upgrade your existing virtual environments to cloud in just hours with the addition of HP Helion CloudSystem software. Packaged as virtual appliances, CloudSystem software is supported on HP and third-party hardware, is quick to install, and easy to maintain. Blending the familiar with the new, Helion CloudSystem makes the power of cloud more accessible than ever. That means that you ll be putting less energy into, and getting more productivity out of your cloud. Cloud administrators are immediately at ease with an operations console that echoes the HP OneView infrastructure management experience. Graphical service topology and workflow tools address fast and efficiently the most sophisticated service design challenges. A full complement of advanced command line and application programming interfaces ensure that systems administrators and developers can also consume services on their own terms. And a consumer-inspired marketplace portal elegantly satisfies the needs of line-of-business service consumers. Sophisticated cloud management platform with governance HP s flagship offering for building and managing clouds, HP Helion CloudSystem is an unrivaled cloud management solution. Ranked number one for private cloud, CloudSystem is currently used by thousands of enterprises and service providers worldwide. It s all about the technology, and CloudSystem is packed. CloudSystem includes a choice of infrastructure providers you can provision to the embedded OpenStack pools, existing CloudSystem resource pools or both and manage your cloud environment with the advanced capabilities including:

4 Sophisticated, multi-tiered service creation with a drag-and-drop designer Leverage a powerful workflow engine to customize service deployment and configuration, integrate with other systems, or perform lifecycle management operations Publish, consume, and manage services through a modern, easy-to-use marketplace portal Tap into external cloud resources to support uneven or unexpected demand. Your hybrid cloud environment can include HP Public Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, HP CloudAgile bursting partners, and even other CloudSystem clouds that you own and operate. Ensure governance with control over service component placement, cloud services approval processes, the right level of security and access control, and much more. Cloud experts you can rely on HP provides a wide range of HP Cloud Professional Services to help you implement the CloudSystem offering allowing your organization to move to the cloud quickly and leverage the benefits of the cloud effectively. These experts can advise, transform, and manage your cloud journey and investments. With an end-to-end lifecycle approach, we can work together to address your needs in the areas of people, process, and technology. Start with the HP Converged Cloud Workshop to understand opportunities and risks of cloud to accelerate business outcomes. Accelerate your cloud initiatives with advice and practical experience Build confidence in an implementation driven by standard practices, tooling, processes, and frameworks. Lower risk of deployments and optimize cost and quality with HP Converged Cloud Services. Drive efficient cloud operations with proactive monitoring, preventative maintenance, tuning, management, support, and optimization of your hybrid cloud environment using HP Proactive Care and HP Datacenter Care. Customize your IT lifecycle management, from acquisition of new IT, management of existing assets, and removal of unneeded equipment, with HP Financial Services; if you prefer, you can move to the metered, pay-per-use model with HP Flexible Capacity Service. Right-start, right-fit offerings For a brand new cloud environment, choose a fully integrated HP Helion CloudSystem solution: HP Helion CloudSystem CS700x/700 HP s integrated cloud solution built on HP s intelligent compute and SAN offering HP Helion CloudSystem CS200-HC HP s integrated cloud solution built on HP s hyperconverged platform with compute and local storage. Both solutions are offered with your choice of HP Helion cloud software. If your organization is just starting the journey to cloud, you can begin by deploying a platform that supports basic cloud infrastructure services such as the easy-todeploy HP Helion CloudSystem Foundation. With CloudSystem Foundation, you benefit from: The ability to deploy simple infrastructure services within minutes, powered by OpenStack technology Open APIs for both administrative and cloud service functions, including OpenStack APIs, enabling highly automated cloud delivery Fast and easy installation via software appliance delivery model Simple administration aligned with the HP OneView console Ability to seamlessly upgrade to HP Helion CloudSystem Enterprise

5 If you need a more comprehensive cloud solution, you are ready for HP Helion CloudSystem Enterprise. This hybrid cloud platform is designed to deliver advanced infrastructure services, as well as platform and application services. The enterprise solution provides all the capabilities and value of CloudSystem Foundation plus: Advanced infrastructure and application service delivery in minutes (*) Enterprise-class lifecycle management for hybrid cloud services (*) Service marketplace, making it easy for consumers to request cloud services Drag-and-drop designer for rapidly defining new multi-tier cloud services Integrated capacity planning, disaster recovery, and bursting to public clouds Investment protection for CloudSystem Matrix users. Manage new OpenStack resource pools alongside your existing CloudSystem Matrix resource pools (*) Delivered through the HP Helion CloudSystem Enterprise Platform, Applications, and Analytics add-on package. Alternatively, you can upgrade your existing virtual environments to cloud in just hours with the addition of HP Helion CloudSystem software only. HP Helion CloudSystem integrates the full value of the hybrid cloud management software stack. It s your cloud, your way, delivered as software or an integrated solution for new cloud projects. Choose HP Helion CloudSystem for an open, secure, and agile path to the new style of IT. Sign up for updates hp.com/go/getupdated 4AA3-6845ENW, Dec 2014, Rev. 6 Share with colleagues Rate this document Copyright Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. The OpenStack Word Mark and OpenStack Logo are either registered trademarks/service marks or trademarks/service marks of the OpenStack Foundation, in the United States and other countries and are used with the OpenStack Foundation s permission. We are not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by the OpenStack Foundation, or the OpenStack community. Red Hat is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Forrester Wave is a trademark of Forrester Research, Inc.