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The Best Sales Arguments for Why HP Networking
HP offers an End - to - end portfolio
- Providing choice via the broadest set of products for the entire network, from edge to core, datacentre to branch, enterprise to SMB
- Championing interoperability - HP delivers standards - based solutions and unified management integrate with existing multivendor environments
- Partnering with application leaders - HP is driving integration with best - in - class applications from Microsoft, Avaya, F5, Riverbed, and more
- Accelerating convergence - HP Virtual Connect and FlexFabric enable true convergence of servers, storage, and networking resources
- Delivering expertise - HP Services span the entire network lifecycle, backed by mission - critical expertise delivered on a global scale
- Continuing innovation - HP is investing in ongoing innovation to deliver modern, simplified network architectures that remove cost and complexity while powering next - generation services.
Reasons to refresh the network now:
- Save cash - Legacy equipment requires expensive support contracts and specialised resources to operate. Cut TCO and free up funds for other IT projects by modernising the network with HP and Avnet
- Sharpening competitive edge - Deploying new applications creates competitive advantage and increases productivity, including unified communications, telepresence, and rapid - access mobile and wireless services
- Grow capacity - Get built - in adaptability to add 1GbE at the desktop and 10GbE at the core to provide huge leaps in bandwidth for converged infrastructure, Web 2.0, and streaming video/voice applications
- Go green - Replace aging switches and routers that gobble power and cooling with more energy - efficient technology
- Prevent threats - Proactively block and remediate threats with embedded security integrated by design from edge to core.
Total Cost of Ownership benefits of HP networking:
- 30% lower CAPEX by introducing second network vendor (Gartner)
- Up to 65% reduction in cost of ownership and 473% ROI in 5.7 - month payback period (IDC)
- 94% less cabling, 75% fewer NICs, 66% less cost with HP Virtual Connect and FlexFabric (HP)
- Up to half the power consumption than comparable competitors (Miercom)
- Less than 2 hours to deploy (HP)
- 76% of S - Series customers deploy HP TippingPoint IPS in less than 2 hours (TippingPoint customer data)
- Industry leading virtualised fabric delivers application services in minutes versus days (HP)
- Fully interoperable technology works with today’s networks and third - party applications (HP).
Reasons to trust HP networking:
- Proven expertise - 40 years of experience delivering solutions for the network, with 5500 certified networking and voice professionals holding 14,000 certifications
- Mission - critical know - how - 6,000+ high availability experts serving over 5,000+ mission - critical services clients with more than 37,000 systems
- Datacentre depth - Thousands of IT migration and consolidation projects; designed over 50 million square feet and 60+ greenfield datacentres
- Global reach - Largest infrastructure support and services organisation in the world, operating in 170 countries with 70,000 channel partners.
Proof of HP market leadership:
- 30+ years of network experience
- #2 enterprise networking vendor (Dell’Oro, Gartner)
- 21% port share (Dell’Oro, Q4 Calendar 2009)
- 36% enterprise port share (Gartner, Q4 Calendar 2009)
- 2.6M+ Virtual Connect ports deployed since 2007
- “Best of the Tests” awarded to A - series core switches (NetworkWorld 2010)
- A leader in Gartner IPS MQ report (Gartner 2009 IPS MQ)
- 70K+ customers
- 40K+ partners.
Architecture advantages:
- Maturity - HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) Switch Virtualization technology has been proven in use for over six years
- Flexibility - IRF supports many protocols and topologies - IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, VPLS, Layer 2, Layer 3
- Manageability - HP IMC delivers unified management for multivendor datacentre networks.
Talk to Avnet’s specialist is HP Networking today on 01706 898398 to see how we can work with you and your customers to drive new revenues in networking and extend the scope of your deals beyond the network.
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