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Overview: HP is among the world's largest IT companies; with revenue totaling $118.4 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended October 31, 2008. In 2008, HP was number 14 on the Fortune 500 list.
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A Practitioner’s Guide to More Efficient Network Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 25, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn the four key initiatives for attacking network management inefficiency and how automation solutions from HP can help.
A Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and Service Automation by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 2008 - This Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and IT Service Automation provides an insightful overview of virtualization and IT Service Management. It helps demystify virtualization and helps you determine if virtualization is right for your environment.
Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center - EMA Analyst Report by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 22, 2008 - This EMA white paper addresses the challenges of a complex multi-tier environment. It highlights specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and most importantly, it provides specific and actionable recommendations for managing virtual systems.
Automated testing ROI: fact or fiction? A customer's perspective: What real QA organizations have found by Hewlett-Packard Company
. February 13, 2009 - The white paper explores the fundamentals of automated software testing, explains how such an endeavor is actually an investment for a company, and details how a company can get a return on their investment.
Best Practices for Backup - Podcast by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 23, 2009 - There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert podcast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.
Best Practices for Backup - Videocast by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 23, 2009 - There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert videocast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.
Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing by Hewlett-Packard Company
. April 2007 - By automating functional testing, you can take major steps forward to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase the speed and accuracy, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects.
Business Value of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling the Storage Solution; Leveraging the Storage Investment by Hewlett-Packard Company
. February 19, 2009 - This analysis looks at the positive business impact of networked storage virtualisation solutions that improve storage asset utilisation, reduce the administrative costs of provisioning new storage systems, and improve application availability.
Case Study: Snapfish Builds a Massive, High-Performing, Scalable Storage Infrastructure with HP Scalable NAS and EVA and MSA Storage Arrays by Hewlett-Packard Company
. November 19, 2008 - Because their previous storage infrastructure was not able to meet their existing and future needs, Snapfish was looking for a storage solution that would offer extreme scalability and improve performance, storage management and flexibility. This case study details how they solved this issue.
Case Study: U.S. Air Force Manages Aircraft Site Using Powerful Storage Virtualization Platform by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 23, 2009 - When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them to meet business demands more flexibly, manage data more simply and efficiently and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources.
Closed Loop Lifecycle Planning: Optimizing for Energy Efficiency in the Upcoming Technology Refresh Cycle by Hewlett-Packard Company
. January 31, 2008 - This paper encourages all businesses to consider a more formal "green" strategy in regards to client computing and the technology refresh cycle. The timing could not be better. There is also a business case to be made that the 'business as usual' environment could view the "green" initiative as a compelling event unto itself.
Converging Voice and IT Networks to Mobilize the Enterprise by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - Because employees on the move require consistent access to people and data, enterprises have invested heavily in communications. HP and Ericsson have combined their strengths to provide an innovative, standards-based framework to unify and consolidate all the elements of an enterprise communications infrastructure.
Culture Change Considerations Due to Unified Communications by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 05, 2008 - This IDC Insight provides an overview of the culture change considerations that end users should consider before adapting a UC solution.
Customer case studies using HP Business Availability Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 01, 2009 - Read this paper to see how HP's Business Availability Center software can help you monitor customer experience and proactively identify issues before they become problems.
D2D Virtual Tape Library Replication Primer by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 17, 2009 - With the introduction of HP Dynamic deduplication and low bandwidth replication (LBR) on HP D2D2500, D2D4000 and D2D4100 Backup Systems, the way data protection can be implemented has been transformed. This whitepaper explains the terminology and concepts behind these technologies and establishes some sizing rules through worked examples.
Data Center Automation - A Forrester 2008 Report by Hewlett-Packard Company
. April 15, 2008 - This Forrester research brief reviews the top vendors in data center automation (DCA) and rates HP the highest due to the breadth of their solution in the very competitive DCA market.
Data Deduplication -- Different Approaches for Different Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 19, 2009 - As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, backup expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. Curtis takes a closer look at the benefits and cost differentiators of moving from tape to disk for data backup.
Developing a Unique Unified Communications Strategy by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - This E-Guide explains how companies can leverage communications, collaboration and business applications to build a UC solution that produces short- and long-term ROI.
Disaster Recovery with the HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway Linux Version and HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 2007 - This white paper reviews proof points and best practices for file sharing disaster recovery.
Driving Effective Software Quality to Address Application Complexity by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 02, 2009 - Join Melinda Ballou as she answers how organizations can be successful and maintain high-performing business-critical software with fewer resources and strategies for successful quality adoption.
E-Discovery: Thriving in the Information Explosion and Recent Economic Times by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 2008 - Join us for an informative discussion about how to not only survive these challenging times, but to use information management to thrive during them.
E-Guide: An Overview of Scale-Out Network Attached Storage by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - This SearchStorage.com E-Guide provides an overview of the benefits of Scale-out storage and includes guidance on how to create an RFP when you are ready to invest in a NAS system.
eGuide: Making IT Automation a Reality by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 2008 - This expert E-Guide offers beginner tips and real-life examples for automation planning and deployment, you'll also learn proven techniques to avoid or resolve common pitfalls, so you can reap all of the perks of IT automation.
End-to-End Service Management in the Virtualized Environment: Delivering on the Promises of Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 30, 2008 - This paper proposes an approach for IT to manage virtualized environments and shows how HP Business Service Management software enables IT operations to link specialists and specialized tools into day-to-day operations while keeping promises to business users.
Essential Guide to Storage Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - Read this guide for expert advice on updating your storage system with virtualization. Covered here are the pros and cons of three architectures, a buying guide and vendor comparisons, a breakdown on how storage virtualization relates to disaster recovery, and a list of vendor resources.
Five Requirements for Greater Efficiency During IT Failures by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 18, 2009 - For many companies, the upside to a down economy is an opportunity to consolidate IT operations. Read this white paper for five requirements to attain greater IT efficiency.
Forrester: Inquiry Spotlight, Archiving Best Practices Q4 2008 by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 08, 2008 - In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes.
Four Key Ingredients for Successful Mobile Services by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - To compete and succeed in the changing market, service providers need to enhance their voice offerings and at the same time deliver innovative new experiences for their customers. In this white paper, we present four key ingredients for making this approach work.
Fundamentals of a Well-Built SAN by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 12, 2009 - The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.
Get Personal: Capitalize on Your Subscriber Data with a Unified User Profile by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - This white paper discusses the role of user profile management. SPs’ efforts to manage, enrich, capitalize on, and provision user information across multiple databases are critical to fuel applications-led service initiatives.
Getting Virtualisation Right: Five Virtualisation Rules Every Organisation Must Know by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 20, 2009 - HP has identified five common virtualisation rules employed by organisations that have succeeded where others have not. While technology differs in complexity and scale from one business to the next, nearly every successful organisation deployed the same five rules to realise the full potential of virtualisation.
Getting Virtualization Right: Five Virtualization Rules Every Organization Must Know by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 25, 2009 - HP has a long and proud tradition of partnering with technology leaders to help ensure success in both good economies and bad. This paper provides
practical advice and insight into the rules these leaders followed to realize the full potential of virtualization.
How Service Providers Can Offer Premium Services and Increase Revenue by Effectively Managing VPNs by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 2007 - Read this white paper to learn how to effectively manage these large scale networks to ensure that customers are receiving the level of service for which they have contracted.
HP Data Protector 6.1 Software: VMware Integration Installation Best Practice by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 10, 2009 - This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.
HP Key Strategies for Successful Customer CMDB Implementations. by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 2008 - To meet the increasing pressures of high availability and performance requirements, many IT groups are adopting IT Service Management ITSM, and change and configuration management CCM strategies. This paper lays out successful approaches.
HP Network Lifecycle Services and Solutions: Extend Your Connected World on Every Front by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - This white paper details how HP enables an enterprise to get the most from their network investment, giving users fast, secure access to the information they need - whenever they need it - quickly and cost-effectively.
HP OpenCall Media Platform: A Cost-effective, Agile IP Media Server by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - Mobile communication technologies are evolving quickly and new customer demands arise almost every day. At the same time, the economic downturn has impacted budgets, so that cost efficiency now tops the corporate agenda. Service providers must now must not only test and develop new services to meet customer demand, but do it within tight budgets.
HP StorageWork EFS Clustered Gateway by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - In this webcast, learn how the HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway, a mid-range NAS file server gateway, allows you to scale your file serving performance in a near linear fashion.
HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualisation Services Platform: Simplifying Heterogeneous Storage Virtualisation by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 22, 2008 - This report documents the results of ESG Lab testing of the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). The enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of asynchronous remote mirroring are also presented.
HP Unified Communications: Simplifying The Journey by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 19, 2009 - As experts in every stage of the Unified Communications solution lifecycle, HP can implement solutions for your organization to reduce costs, enhance business responsiveness, and increase end-user productivity.
IDC Report on ITIL: How to manage the IT Service Lifecycle by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 08, 2008 - Read this IDC white paper to learn more about IT Infrastructure Library implementation and the ITIL service management lifecycle.
IDC Report: IT Service Management Adoption Trends and Strategies by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 08, 2008 - Check out this white paper that discusses the findings of an IDC survey of over 600 IT organizations worldwide. The survey identifies issues confronting IT departments that are adopting service models and to better understand the status and priorities of key functions and processes that underlie successful implementation of IT service management.
Improving IT Economics with Storage and Server Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
. May 20, 2009 - This white paper describes the powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products to produce a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations.
Key Considerations in Building an E-mail Archiving and Compliance Strategy - Webcast by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 14, 2009 - In this webcast, learn how Brunel University solved their email management challenges of massive email growth, lengthy tape backups and long searches. Discover how to develop an email archiving strategy that automatically captures, preserves and manages all corporate emails for compliance regulations.
Managing Requirements, Tests and Defects with HP Quality Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
. May 2007 - HP TestDirector for Quality Center software drives a more effective and efficient global application testing process and supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams.
Modernizing Your Legacy AS/400 applications by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 16, 2008 - With recent AS/400 announcements, companies operating on the AS/400 today have a decision to make—rehost, rewrite, or replace. The key thing to remember when migrating your AS/400 application infrastructure is that it is all about delivering the intended business outcome— generating new services to win new customers.
Optimizing Business Service Management (BSM) in a Challenging Global Economy: Delivering Service Quality While Improving IT Efficiency by Hewlett-Packard Company
. May 25, 2009 - This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures.
Optimizing Business System Management in a Challenging Global Economy: Delivering Service Quality While Improving IT Efficiency by Hewlett-Packard Company
. May 15, 2009 - This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures.
Optimizing The Value of Your Subscriber Data by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - Mobile network operators are not exploiting the full value of their most valuable asset—their subscriber information. While mobile network operators may be sitting on a gold mine of subscriber data, they do not have the tools they need to exploit it. This paper explains the avenues available to take advantage of their subscriber information.
Performance Center of Excellence by Hewlett-Packard Company
. February 27, 2009 - As the application lifecycle evolves, components that drive efficiency and quality become more crucial. Organizations building centers of excellence (CoE) around performance testing find that the CoE centralizes resources and utilizes the full capabilities of today's robust automation products. Read on to learn more about the benefits of CoE.
Podcast: Data Deduplication -- Different Approaches for Different Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 19, 2009 - As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, backup expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. Curtis takes a closer look at the benefits and cost differentiators of moving from tape to disk for data backup.
Presentation Transcript: Protecting Data on the Edge by Hewlett-Packard Company
. June 19, 2009 - According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this transcript, W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
Protecting Data on the Edge by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 08, 2009 - According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this videocast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
Realizing ITIL V3: Top Technologies to Drive Value by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 2008 - Interested in ITIL v3 but not sure how to start? ITIL v3 best practices define how IT can better organize itself to understand and meet business needs, from strategy to operations and ongoing improvement.
Redefining the Application lifecycle: Looking beyond the Application to Align with Business Goals by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 2008 - This paper describes the HP approach and highlights the key opportunities to reduce the risks, costs, and time required to develop, deliver, and maintain high quality applications.
Reducing Risk through Requirements-driven Quality Management: An End-to-end Approach by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 23, 2008 - This white paper explains a structured way to manage requirements and how risk-based requirements and quality management are inseparable from the larger process of managing the planning, test and release of a software system.
Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 31, 2009 - This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.
Rethinking Storage Virtualization with the HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 20, 2009 - If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.
ROI Case Study: Crest Animation by Hewlett-Packard Company
. November 23, 2007 - Download this case study and read how Crest Animation eliminated storage bottlenecks, improved productivity, and gained more than $19 Million in benefits with HP StorageWorks Solution.
ROI on Network Efficiency: Customer Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
. February 17, 2009 - When the State of Kansas Division of Information Services and Communications mandated that all of its departments find ways to consolidate operations and boost staff productivity, its networking services group was ready for the challenge. Read this case study to see what they did.
Securing Sensitive Information: An Examination of Information Security Issues, Methods and Securing Data With LTO-4 Tape Drive Encryption by Hewlett-Packard Company
. July 21, 2009 - Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
Storage Virtualization with the HP StorageWorks by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 01, 2009 - The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.
TCO Analysis for Modernizing an AS/400 Application to HP Integrity by Hewlett-Packard Company
. March 25, 2009 - This paper examines the development costs, ongoing staffing costs, and hardware costs associated with modernizing your business-critical AS/400 applications. It will also discuss how the resulting environment can assist organizations to deliver new and competitive business services as well as reduce IT administrative costs.
Test Management Tools and Techniques by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 2008 - This paper explores the challenges and rewards of test management and provides practical ways to help you implement an organized and structured testing process. It also discusses the benefits of HP Quality Center software.
The Business Value of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on HP ProLiant x86 Servers vs. Sun Solaris 10 on Sun Servers by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 01, 2009 - Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results.
The Forrester Wave: Requirements Management, Q2 2008 by Hewlett-Packard Company
. March 04, 2009 - In Forrester's 79-criteria evaluation of requirements management tools vendors, five standalone requirements management tools and four application life-cycle management (ALM) solutions that include requirements management capabilities went head-to-head. Read this research paper to see how each one fared.
The HP Applications Modernization Transformation Experience Workshop by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 01, 2009 - Organizations are realizing their priorities are not about new technology –instead, they are focusing on how to use the technology they have to survive and thrive in the downturn. How can you make the most of your information technology investments in this new environment?
The Power of Automation: The EDS Story by Hewlett-Packard Company
. September 17, 2009 - It is becoming increasingly difficult for data center pros to manage their IT environments. This webcast explores best practices for automation and details the benefits you can realize from implementing the technology.
Turning Virtual Sprawl Into a Good Thing by Hewlett-Packard Company
. December 10, 2009 - Watch this webcast to learn how discovery and dependency mapping (DDM) tools can help organizations overcome the challenges of virtual sprawl. Learn how you can leverage this mapping tool for effective infrastructure management without increasing costs and risk.
Unified Communications: Strategic Value, Benefits and the Role of System Integrators by Hewlett-Packard Company
. August 29, 2008 - This white paper shows how current economic and technological trends increase the importance of efficient communication and collaboration processes for enterprises. Further, it demonstrates how unified communications (UC) can help companies to address these challenges.
Virtualization For Better, Faster, More Cost-Effective Quality Assurance by Hewlett-Packard Company
. April 01, 2008 - Read this white paper to learn how adding Surgient VQMS to HP Quality Center
helps you centrally manage and allocate test lab resources from HP Quality Center across multiple and distributed teams according to business policies and quotas, and more.
Virtualization for Dummies, 2nd HP Special Edition by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 14, 2009 - Read this book for an introduction to the subject so that you can understand its promise and perils — and create an action plan to decide whether virtualization is right for you, as well as how to move forward with implementing it should you decide it is right for you.
Why Records Management is important by Hewlett-Packard Company
. March 06, 2009 - Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.
Working Smart in IT Operations: The Case for Consolidated Operations by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 01, 2008 - This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach-- consolidated operations-- designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort.
X-Ray your Legacy Apps by Hewlett-Packard Company
. October 01, 2009 - Are your applications bleeding your business dry? Watch this ER video that shows how HP Applications Transformation Services using Visual Intelligence can help you modernize your apps.
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