A key component of the "Instant-On Enterprise," HP Hybrid Delivery Strategy Service gives clients a structured understanding of the programs, projects and main activities required to move to, as well as manage, a hybrid delivery model.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Technology company HP (www.hp.com) has unveiled its vision for what it calls the “Instant-On Enterprise”, organizations that embed technology into everything they do to better address the rapidly changing needs of customers and citizens.
According to HP’s Tuesday announcement, new research conducted by Coleman Parkes Research on behalf of HP has revealed the role of IT is shifting from chiefly being the administrator of the enterprise, to becoming one and the same with the enterprise.
The study found that as mobile and cloud computing is adopted, everything is becoming connected and immediate, and, as a result, customers and citizens expect responses in seconds and “instants,” instead of weeks and days.
“It takes a special kind of enterprise to close the expectation gap between what customers and citizens expect and what the enterprise can deliver,” HP marketing and strategy enterprise sales executive vice president Thomas E. Hogan said in a statement. “The Instant-On Enterprise delivers differentiated competitive advantage, serving customers, employees, partners and citizens with whatever they want and need, instantly – only HP has the solutions to help organizations become Instant-On Enterprises.”
According to the study, which surveyed 560 senior business executives and senior technology executives of medium and large organizations worldwide, 86 percent said that to better serve customers and citizens they must rapidly adapt the enterprise to meet changes in consumer expectations. 78 percent said believe that technology is the key to business and government innovation, and 85 percent indicated that in order to be successful, technology needs to be embedded in the business or government service.
“We truly believe that the Instant-On Enterprise is here, and it is the enterprise for now,” said HP enterprise business marketing vice president Lynn Anderson.
In an effort to enable these enterprises and government agencies to deliver these technologies, Anderson said that HP has integrated solutions to help them find and deploy new ways to serve customers and citizens, and create their own Instant-On Enterprise.
HP Application Transformation solutions help update applications and processes designed for another era. Anderson said that the average Fortune 100 company has 35 million lines of code, and 60 percent of their applications are older than eight years. Application Transformation helps enterprises handle these aging applications and inflexible processes.
HP Converged Infrastructure solutions, which is part of what HP said is a key part of the “data center of the future”, involves integration of server, storage, networking and management resources. Rather than traditional, rigid IT silos, infrastructure is specifically engineered to drive out costs and provide the foundation for agile service delivery
Providing infrastructure-wide security – including people, processes, technology and content – HP Enterprise Security solutions are designed to meet ever-changing business and government demands without losing flexibility.
“From a security perspective, the most secure enterprise is the one that cuts itself off from customers, partners, employees, and citizens… but that’s not the most successful enterprise,” Anderson said, noting that HP Enterprise Security is the next best option. “We have a set of security solutions that span the full gambit – everything from infrastructure to applications… to help businesses do that.”
HP Information Optimization solutions help organizations rethink how information is gathered, stored and used – harnessing the power of information and ensuring its integrity and protection, while delivering it in the context of the enterprise. “Right now enterprises have difficulty harnessing and controlling information they’re generating inside the enterprise,” Anderson said. “Now they’re going to have to figure out a way of being able to collect the information from outside of their enterprise and then serve it out in usable chunks.”
The final part of the Instant-On Enterprise is around HP Hybrid delivery – a combination of traditional, and public and private cloud delivery modes. After all, according to HP’s research, 18 percent said that by 2015 their IT would be delivered via a public cloud, 28 percent via private cloud, and the rest using in-house IT or outsourcing. “That tells you that they’re going to have a variety of service delivery models for a very long time.”
To meet this need, HP Hybrid Delivery Strategy Service gives clients a structured understanding of the programs, projects and main activities required to move to, as well as manage, a hybrid delivery model. And HP Hybrid Delivery Workload Analysis Service analyzes an enterprise’s complement of workloads and applications to determine the best fit and compatibility for hybrid environments.
“Basically, from our perspective, we don’t think that every workload is created equal and we don’t think that we’re going to see enterprises go to a single delivery model,” Anderson said.
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