Extending the storage value proposition with HP XP Solutions
- Extending the value of existing storage assets
- Extending new IT services to your customer
- Reducing storage cost of ownership
These are the promises made by HP’s Storage XP solutions and the reasons why storage consolidation is now a stronger opportunity than ever before for you and your customers.
Your customers strategy for IT spend may be static but the data in their business is growing unabated, perpetuating the familiar problems of ad-hoc storage procurement, increasing IT management burdens and the extra business risk attached to security, data loss and compliance. At the same time customers are, more than ever before, dependent upon the availability of this digitally stored content for business-critical operations.
Some HP customers have achieved the following ROI results from XP:
- Depending on the industry sector and application customers can achieve savings of £12,000 (ATM) to £5m (brokerage) per hour of incremental revenue
- Thin Provisioning within an P9000 solution can reduce over allocation of storage by 30%, whilst also reducing future storage procurement and associated TCO
- A multi-tiered storage environment can help reduce storage TCO by as much as 35%
The current generation of XP systems is designed with these business pressures in mind;
Improve Profit
- Scalability of both capacity and performance is delivered by adding disk, cache, connectivity and controllers without downtime
- Guarantee performance for specific services by partitioning arrays to allocate resources to key applications and services
Reduce Cost
- P9000 offers inbuilt virtualisation capabilities that allow it to encapsulate and extend current storage arrays
- HP’s External Storage software allows existing storage resources to be pooled, managed centrally and optimised whilst also enabling new approaches including Thin Provisioning and tiered storage
Reduce Risk
- A boot-once architecture enables true 24x7 availability
- Security is enhanced via AES256 bit encryption and Volume Shredding technology that destroys sensitive data at the end of its lifecycle
As the UK’s most accredited XP distribution partner Avnet is perfectly placed to support you in the development of profitable XP opportunities.
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