Customers adopt HP Converged Cloud portfolio

HP has been providing cloud solutions for over four years now, and in April 2012, the company consolidated it cloud offerings into the Converged Cloud portfolio, to offer the industry’s first hybrid delivery model based on a common architecture spanning traditional IT, private, managed and public cloud. Since that time, HP has continued to invest in developing technologies for organizations to confidently build, operate and consume IT across all cloud delivery models.

Leading with the industry’s most comprehensive cloud solution offering, HP has secured more than 1,000 CloudSystem and 200 managed cloud customers in over 60 countries, as well as signed on thousands of users for the company’s public cloud solution, HP Cloud Services.

Customers experience success with HP Converged Cloud
As organizations rapidly embrace new technology to drive enterprise value, IT environments are under extreme pressure to deliver. With HP Converged Cloud, customers are able to create a flexible IT environment, with choice in delivery model and platform, confidence in management and security, and consistency in a common architecture and workload portability. Some of HP Converged Cloud customers include:

Deluxe Digital, a global leader in digital cinema services
“We needed next-generation solutions that could improve the security and efficiency of our core business - cinema delivery” said Peter Wright, managing director, Deluxe Digital Cinema EMEA. “HP’s business process services, along with HP Enterprise Cloud Services transformed our current methods of cinema delivery with quality, bandwidth and expertise enabling us to increase service levels to our clients, the film distributors, ensuring they get on screen on time.”

Sprinklr, a leader in campaign management solutions
“Sprinklr is the top-ranked Social Relationship Platform in the market and works with the world’s most social global brands. It is absolutely essential that we are able to rapidly respond to threats and exploit opportunities in a world of the empowered social customer. HP Cloud Services provides the flexibility and speed to stay on top of the ever-changing social landscape,” said Murali Swaminathan, chief operating officer, Sprinklr.

ITDZ, Berlin’s municipal IT service center
“To boost efficiency, we wanted to virtualize and automate our data center infrastructure without compromising our high standards for IT and data security,” says Peter Simple, senior data center operations manager, ITDZ Berlin. “HP CloudSystem Enterprise running VMware and HP Cloud Service Automation enabled our specialists to quickly design new multi-tier application cloud services that our clients can access in minutes of placing the order, streamlining the procurement and deployment processes, and providing us with significant productivity gains.

Bharti Airtel, one of the leading global telecommunication operators in India with over 130 million subscribers
“We needed a cloud solution that would enable our customers to optimize IT costs and increase business agility,” said Sanjay Kapoor, CEO (India & South Asia), Bharti Airtel. “HP’s Enterprise Cloud Services, including its cloud enablement platform, HP Aggregation Platform for SaaS, integrated our existing network system to facilitate distribution, subscription and consumption of services via a customer marketplace portal.”

Waternet, a supplier of clean tap water to more than 2.4 million citizens in Amsterdam’s metropolitan area
Waternet needed to manage uneven service demands to ensure uninterrupted service. HP CloudSystem enabled the company to manage service demands with instant access to additional capacity as-needed, on a pay-as-you-go basis. Additionally, the HP Matrix Operating Environment, integrated with HP CloudSystem, enabled Waternet to design and provision a complex infrastructure in minutes via a self-service portal, ensuring predictable delivery and service levels by allocating resources across physical and virtual environments.

Latisys, provider of managed hosting and cloud services to large enterprises, medium-size businesses and government agencies, and a HP Cloud Agile partner
Latisys needed an Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution with automated provisioning and orchestration to accelerate, simplify and deliver on-demand scalability. HP CloudSystem has enabled the company to simplify management of different cloud resource pools via automated provisioning, as well as accommodate diverse customer workloads with a platform that scales linearly without unexpected downtime. Further, Latisys is the first service provider to use the OpenStack-based bursting connector included in CloudSystem 7.2 to deliver supplemental pay-as-you-go capacity enabling its customers’ to easily manage uneven service demands.

“As customers look to the cloud, they need a trusted partner with a clear vision and strategy as well as proven experience in delivering industry-leading cloud technology and services,” says Saar Gillai, senior vice president and general manager, Converged Cloud, HP. “HP is delivering an end-to-end, Converged Cloud set of capabilities that offers customers the choice, confidence and consistency they need to manage hybrid cloud deployments.”