Storage Virtualization Campaign
Virtualization is much more than server virtualization. Today tangible ROI results are being achieved by consolidating many older underutilized servers into a much smaller number of highly utilized servers by using virtualization technologies like Microsoft Hyper-V. The performance gains are obvious and the reduced costs in hardware, power and maintenance costs can easily help cost justify the decision to move to a virtualized environment.
Although server utilization can be improved in a virtualized environment and fewer servers are required, there are some specific solution requirements that optimally be handled by an integrated approach to virtualization using a well integrated combination of servers and storage.
These solution requirements include dynamic resource optimization, high availability, scalability, efficient disk utilization, integrated delivery/support and cost effectiveness.
HP Microsoft Infrastructure Virtualization solutions address all these solution requirements:
Target customers
- Mid Market across all verticals (midmarket being defined for this Wave as companies with employees starting at 100—999)
- 25 or more servers with a full-time IT person
- Primarily Microsoft environments, running Exchange, SQL, SharePoint
- iSCSI IP environments
- Microsoft installed base who have not yet virtualized
- Current HP server customers with aging server/storage infrastructure
- Prospects looking to virtualize their infrastructure
- Key Decision Makers
- Server and Storage administrators, IT director and staff, CIO’s
