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Overview: HP is among the world's largest IT companies; with revenue totaling $118.4 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended October 31, 2008. In 2008, HP was number 14 on the Fortune 500 list.
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5 Key Virtualization Management Challenges - and How to Overcome Them by Hewlett-Packard Company
March 01, 2009 - Virtualization introduces fundamental changes to IT, and adds significant management challenges. Read this informative white paper written by Enterprise Management Associates to learn what these challenges are as well as some of the solutions and strategies used to deal with them.
802.11n Drives an Architectural Evolution by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 29, 2008 - Today's enterprises deploy wireless LANs (WLANs) as a standard business tool to drive productivity and enhance collaboration. Enter the state-of-the-art WLAN 802.11n. Organizations can expand their wireless capabilities with this expanding technology to dramatically boost network capacity and speed up to 600 Mbps. Read this paper for more details.
A Practitioner’s Guide to More Efficient Network Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 25, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn the four key initiatives for attacking network management inefficiency and how automation solutions from HP can help.
A Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and Service Automation by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 2008 - This Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and IT Service Automation provides an insightful overview of virtualization and IT Service Management. It helps demystify virtualization and helps you determine if virtualization is right for your environment.
A Suite of HP ProCurve Enterprise Network Services by Hewlett-Packard Company
January 09, 2009 - This brochure provides an overview of HP ProCurve Service offerings - covering the entire lifecycle of your extensible network.
A Tour of HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment by Hewlett-Packard Company
April 01, 2009 - This white paper describes HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, a template of pre-defined information based on ITGI's COBIT, which is loaded into HP Quality Center to help your organization define and execute Sarbanes-Oxley testing, evaluate the results, and develop remediation plans.
Application Complexity Spurs Growth in Performance Validation Market by Hewlett-Packard Company
March 04, 2009 - SOA, governance and application development are paramount to the growing application performance validation market. Read this white paper and learn how performance validation solutions evolved from application load testing to currently include enterprise load testing and application performance lifecycle management.
Application Quality Lifecycle: Security, Functional and Performance Testing by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 01, 2007 - HP QAInspect delivers automated security information that QA professionals and software testers can access at any point in the application development process to identify and remediate potential security defects.
Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line by Hewlett-Packard Company
November 04, 2009 - Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line: Americas by Hewlett-Packard Company
November 05, 2009 - Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line: Asia Pacific and Japan by Hewlett-Packard Company
November 02, 2009 - Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 01, 2008 - This Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) white paper highlights a number of specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI and other benefits, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and explains why most current approaches to virtual system management fall short.
Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center - EMA Analyst Report by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 22, 2008 - This EMA white paper addresses the challenges of a complex multi-tier environment. It highlights specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and most importantly, it provides specific and actionable recommendations for managing virtual systems.
Automated testing ROI: fact or fiction? A customer's perspective: What real QA organizations have found by Hewlett-Packard Company
February 13, 2009 - The white paper explores the fundamentals of automated software testing, explains how such an endeavor is actually an investment for a company, and details how a company can get a return on their investment.
Best Practices for Backup - Podcast by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 23, 2009 - There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert podcast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.
Best Practices for Backup - Videocast by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 23, 2009 - There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert videocast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.
Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing by Hewlett-Packard Company
April 2007 - By automating functional testing, you can take major steps forward to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase the speed and accuracy, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects.
Best Practices for SAP Upgrades & Migrations with HP and Novell by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 02, 2009 - Join experts from HP and Novell in this webcast as they discuss how to empower your SAP solutions, deliver the right information to the right people at the right time, and execute upgrades and migrations successfully.
Brazilian Navy Moves from Mainframe to HP Platform: Modernizing IT, Cutting Costs by Hewlett-Packard Company
January 22, 2009 - When the Brazilian Navy needed to reduce the BRL 6 million (US$3 million) spent annually to keep their mainframe operational, they chose an HP- and Oracle®-based distributed platform as an alternative to the mainframe environment. Costs have been reduced by approximately 80% vs. mainframe database software costs.
Building High-performance, Highly Available IP Storage Networks with HP SAN/iQ Software by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 13, 2009 - If you’re an administrator who’s planning to build a high performance, highly available IP network using HP SAN/iQ Software, you should read this document in its entirety. You’ll find important configuration guidelines, best practices, and frequently asked questions that will help you to accelerate a successful deployment.
Business Value of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling the Storage Solution; Leveraging the Storage Investment by Hewlett-Packard Company
February 19, 2009 - This analysis looks at the positive business impact of networked storage virtualisation solutions that improve storage asset utilisation, reduce the administrative costs of provisioning new storage systems, and improve application availability.
Case Study: Snapfish Builds a Massive, High-Performing, Scalable Storage Infrastructure with HP Scalable NAS and EVA and MSA Storage Arrays by Hewlett-Packard Company
November 19, 2008 - Because their previous storage infrastructure was not able to meet their existing and future needs, Snapfish was looking for a storage solution that would offer extreme scalability and improve performance, storage management and flexibility. This case study details how they solved this issue.
Case Study: U.S. Air Force Manages Aircraft Site Using Powerful Storage Virtualization Platform by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 23, 2009 - When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them to meet business demands more flexibly, manage data more simply and efficiently and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources.
Case Study: Clear Channel by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 28, 2007 - After expanding their business into other markets across the globe, international media company Clear Channel found their current accounting and billing systems needing an upgrade. Read this case study and learn Clear Channel's solution.
Choosing The Right Hardware and Software for Data Protection Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
June 18, 2008 - With the increasing importance of disk-based data protection, the question arises on what are the relative choices of disk and tape for basic operational recovery. The answer lies in what data protection software technologies are used and for what reasons. This white paper gives more information.
Closed Loop Lifecycle Planning: Optimizing for Energy Efficiency in the Upcoming Technology Refresh Cycle by Hewlett-Packard Company
January 31, 2008 - This paper encourages all businesses to consider a more formal "green" strategy in regards to client computing and the technology refresh cycle. The timing could not be better. There is also a business case to be made that the 'business as usual' environment could view the "green" initiative as a compelling event unto itself.
Consolidating SQL Server for Lower TCO by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 22, 2009 - Because of the success of SQL Server in recent years, unintended consequences have developed. These include low levels of utilization, poor availability, and an enormous management burden inflicted on many IT departments. This paper describes a solution: HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server.
Continuity of Operations Planning: Implement COOP Requirements For Storage with HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 06, 2009 - Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) is the disciplined planning needed to prepare for a natural or man-made emergency that affects service availability. This data sheet presents an effective solution for COOP from HP.
Convergence That Makes Sense - Bringing Together Voice and Data Networks by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - Converged voice and data networks are becoming a major part of every IT strategy. There are significant advantages in bringing together voice, video, e-mail, instant messaging, business data, and office applications in a single, integrated network. Convergence is not just about cost savings anymore.
Converging Voice and IT Networks to Mobilize the Enterprise by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - Because employees on the move require consistent access to people and data, enterprises have invested heavily in communications. HP and Ericsson have combined their strengths to provide an innovative, standards-based framework to unify and consolidate all the elements of an enterprise communications infrastructure.
Culture Change Considerations Due to Unified Communications by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 05, 2008 - This IDC Insight provides an overview of the culture change considerations that end users should consider before adapting a UC solution.
Customer case studies using HP Business Availability Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
June 01, 2009 - Read this paper to see how HP's Business Availability Center software can help you monitor customer experience and proactively identify issues before they become problems.
D2D Virtual Tape Library Replication Primer by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 17, 2009 - With the introduction of HP Dynamic deduplication and low bandwidth replication (LBR) on HP D2D2500, D2D4000 and D2D4100 Backup Systems, the way data protection can be implemented has been transformed. This whitepaper explains the terminology and concepts behind these technologies and establishes some sizing rules through worked examples.
Data Center Automation - A Forrester 2008 Report by Hewlett-Packard Company
April 15, 2008 - This Forrester research brief reviews the top vendors in data center automation (DCA) and rates HP the highest due to the breadth of their solution in the very competitive DCA market.
Data Deduplication -- Different Approaches for Different Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 19, 2009 - As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, backup expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. Curtis takes a closer look at the benefits and cost differentiators of moving from tape to disk for data backup.
Data Deduplication – Different Approaches for Different Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 26, 2009 - There are so many different types of deduplication: source, target, hash-based, delta differential-based, and global dedupe, for example. Read this presentation transcript for a discussion of data backup methods, data security, and data storage strategies for various environments.
Developing a mission-critical hardware strategy for your SAP environment by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 27, 2009 - How can you develop the optimal hardware strategy for maximum performance of your SAP environment? This eBook includes tips and insight from server, storage, virtualization and SAP software pros that will help you get the most out of your SAP enterprise software.
Developing a Unique Unified Communications Strategy by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - This E-Guide explains how companies can leverage communications, collaboration and business applications to build a UC solution that produces short- and long-term ROI.
Disaster Recovery with the HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway Linux Version and HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 2007 - This white paper reviews proof points and best practices for file sharing disaster recovery.
Disk and Tape Square Off Again - Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4 by Hewlett-Packard Company
February 29, 2008 - This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison - using a backup/recovery and archive scenario - between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.
Driving Effective Software Quality to Address Application Complexity by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 02, 2009 - Join Melinda Ballou as she answers how organizations can be successful and maintain high-performing business-critical software with fewer resources and strategies for successful quality adoption.
E-Discovery: Thriving in the Information Explosion and Recent Economic Times by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 2008 - Join us for an informative discussion about how to not only survive these challenging times, but to use information management to thrive during them.
E-Guide: An Overview of Scale-Out Network Attached Storage by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - This SearchStorage.com E-Guide provides an overview of the benefits of Scale-out storage and includes guidance on how to create an RFP when you are ready to invest in a NAS system.
E-Guide: Storage Virtualization Best Practices by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 09, 2009 - This E-Guide explores server virtualization and its impacts on storage. Learn more about the dynamic nature of virtualized environments and the overall state of adoption, performance spectrum, benefits, and challenges.
eBook: Building A Center Of Excellence by Hewlett-Packard Company
February 18, 2009 - HP's approach to application lifecycle management and the Center of Excellence model for quality, performance, SOA, and security eliminates repetitive processes and work. And it improves business results by helping leading organizations integrate knowledge, processes, and resources.
eBook: Reduce Network Operations Centers (NOC) Costs with Automation -- HP eBook by Hewlett-Packard Company
February 17, 2009 - Check out this eBook to learn how to unify fault, performance and configuration management to increase uptime, reduce costs, and reduce human error.
eGuide: Application Lifecycle Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 2008 - This E-Guide discusses the benefits and drawbacks of consistency in ALM and provides an overview of the challenges associated with building and managing quality into the software development life cycle (SDLC).
eGuide: Data Center Efficiency in 2009 by Hewlett-Packard Company
March 18, 2009 - In this HP-sponsored E-guide, learn how virtualization and open source systems management tools better enable a data center to weather tight economic times. Discover why it is critical to scale back data center energy use to limit long-term capital expenditure.
eGuide: Making IT Automation a Reality by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 2008 - This expert E-Guide offers beginner tips and real-life examples for automation planning and deployment, you'll also learn proven techniques to avoid or resolve common pitfalls, so you can reap all of the perks of IT automation.
End-to-End Service Management in the Virtualized Environment: Delivering on the Promises of Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 30, 2008 - This paper proposes an approach for IT to manage virtualized environments and shows how HP Business Service Management software enables IT operations to link specialists and specialized tools into day-to-day operations while keeping promises to business users.
ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy with HP by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 01, 2008 - This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers' information retention strategies.
Essential Guide to Storage Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - Read this guide for expert advice on updating your storage system with virtualization. Covered here are the pros and cons of three architectures, a buying guide and vendor comparisons, a breakdown on how storage virtualization relates to disaster recovery, and a list of vendor resources.
File Systems Define the Future for Managing Storage by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 30, 2008 - Read this study for a thorough review of the file-based storage market. It describes technology while establishing use cases, analyzing the opportunity, and putting forth assumptions about the future.
Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring: How End-User Monitoring Can Help You Improve Customer Satisfaction by Hewlett-Packard Company
May 01, 2008 - This paper discusses some of the common myths about infrastructure monitoring, and addresses how to ensure your infrastructure monitoring is responsive enough to satisfy and retain your customers.
Five Requirements for Greater Efficiency During IT Failures by Hewlett-Packard Company
June 18, 2009 - For many companies, the upside to a down economy is an opportunity to consolidate IT operations. Read this white paper for five requirements to attain greater IT efficiency.
Forrester: Inquiry Spotlight, Archiving Best Practices Q4 2008 by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 08, 2008 - In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes.
Four Key Ingredients for Successful Mobile Services by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - To compete and succeed in the changing market, service providers need to enhance their voice offerings and at the same time deliver innovative new experiences for their customers. In this white paper, we present four key ingredients for making this approach work.
Four Starting Points for Effective Project and Portfolio Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 2008 - Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.
Fundamentals of a Well-Built SAN by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 12, 2009 - The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.
Get Personal: Capitalize on Your Subscriber Data with a Unified User Profile by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - This white paper discusses the role of user profile management. SPs’ efforts to manage, enrich, capitalize on, and provision user information across multiple databases are critical to fuel applications-led service initiatives.
Getting Virtualisation Right: Five Virtualisation Rules Every Organisation Must Know by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 20, 2009 - HP has identified five common virtualisation rules employed by organisations that have succeeded where others have not. While technology differs in complexity and scale from one business to the next, nearly every successful organisation deployed the same five rules to realise the full potential of virtualisation.
Getting Virtualization Right: Five Virtualization Rules Every Organization Must Know by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 25, 2009 - HP has a long and proud tradition of partnering with technology leaders to help ensure success in both good economies and bad. This paper provides
practical advice and insight into the rules these leaders followed to realize the full potential of virtualization.
How Service Providers Can Offer Premium Services and Increase Revenue by Effectively Managing VPNs by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 2007 - Read this white paper to learn how to effectively manage these large scale networks to ensure that customers are receiving the level of service for which they have contracted.
How to control the risk and costs of e-discovery by Hewlett-Packard Company
March 06, 2009 - In this webcast hear from leading analyst firm Gartner Research and Information Management solution providers HP on how to reduce the cost and risk of e-discovery, with a focus on Legal Hold best practice and solutions, and how a proactive e-discovery strategy will help you optimize the Legal Hold process.
How to Simplify .NET Testing by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 01, 2007 - HP QuickTest Professional software is a useful tool for regression test and function test automation. This paper will briefly review the challenges or testing Windows Forms applications and review the functionality of HP QuickTest Processional and its .NET add-in capabilities.
HP Data Protector 6.1 Software: VMware Integration Installation Best Practice by Hewlett-Packard Company
June 10, 2009 - This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.
HP Dynamic Deduplication - achieving a 50:1 ratio by Hewlett-Packard Company
March 03, 2009 - In 2008, HP introduced two products to the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System Family. Both feature Dynamic deduplication based on an HP-patented algorithm that packs up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint. This paper explains how Dynamic deduplication works and also establishes how a 50:1 deduplication ratio may be achieved.
HP Key Strategies for Successful Customer CMDB Implementations. by Hewlett-Packard Company
June 2008 - To meet the increasing pressures of high availability and performance requirements, many IT groups are adopting IT Service Management ITSM, and change and configuration management CCM strategies. This paper lays out successful approaches.
HP LeftHand SAN Failback Procedure for VMware by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 05, 2009 - This white paper documents the procedure for failback from a VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) recovery site after SRM has performed a failover on an HP LeftHand SAN. This document is intended for customers who are using an HP LeftHand SAN with VMware.
HP LoadRunner Software Tips and Tricks for Configuration Scripting and Execution by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 2008 - This guide is intended to help new users and seasoned professionals learn new ways to design and implement successful load testing initiatives using HP LoadRunner.
HP Network Lifecycle Services and Solutions: Extend Your Connected World on Every Front by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - This white paper details how HP enables an enterprise to get the most from their network investment, giving users fast, secure access to the information they need - whenever they need it - quickly and cost-effectively.
HP OpenCall Media Platform: A Cost-effective, Agile IP Media Server by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - Mobile communication technologies are evolving quickly and new customer demands arise almost every day. At the same time, the economic downturn has impacted budgets, so that cost efficiency now tops the corporate agenda. Service providers must now must not only test and develop new services to meet customer demand, but do it within tight budgets.
HP StorageWork EFS Clustered Gateway by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - In this webcast, learn how the HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway, a mid-range NAS file server gateway, allows you to scale your file serving performance in a near linear fashion.
HP StorageWorks Business Continuity and Availability for Oracle by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 2007 - HP offers storage solutions for every aspect of your Oracle driven business to help you solve the challenges of disaster tolerance, backup and recovery.
HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualisation Services Platform: Simplifying Heterogeneous Storage Virtualisation by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 22, 2008 - This report documents the results of ESG Lab testing of the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). The enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of asynchronous remote mirroring are also presented.
HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager: Hardened, Clustered Key Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
April 30, 2008 - This ESG Lab report documents the results of hands-on testing of HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager (SKM) solutions with a focus on ease of deployment, transparent integration with existing backup operations, clustered fault tolerance and strong security.
HP Unified Communications: Simplifying The Journey by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 19, 2009 - As experts in every stage of the Unified Communications solution lifecycle, HP can implement solutions for your organization to reduce costs, enhance business responsiveness, and increase end-user productivity.
HP white paper: Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
November 01, 2008 - This paper examines the issues of backup and recovery in VMware virtual server environments, and outlines the key features of HP Data Protector.
IDC Report on ITIL: How to manage the IT Service Lifecycle by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 08, 2008 - Read this IDC white paper to learn more about IT Infrastructure Library implementation and the ITIL service management lifecycle.
IDC Report: IT Service Management Adoption Trends and Strategies by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 08, 2008 - Check out this white paper that discusses the findings of an IDC survey of over 600 IT organizations worldwide. The survey identifies issues confronting IT departments that are adopting service models and to better understand the status and priorities of key functions and processes that underlie successful implementation of IT service management.
IDC Technology Spotlight: Optimizing Storage to Reduce Data Footprint and Lower Costs by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 2008 - This white paper examines data deduplication technologies supported by the latest Storage Solutions from HP. Data deduplication is a hot topic in data protection and therefore, also a relevant topic for HP Data Protector software.
IDC WhitePaper: The Business Case for a Unified Wired and Wireless Solution by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 29, 2008 - To determine the return on investment (ROI) associated with the implementation of an HP ProCurve UWW network solution, IDC conducted a study of eight organizations world wide that have successfully performed HP ProCurve UWW implementations and are running the solution in their production environments today. This paper gives the results.
Improving IT Economics with Storage and Server Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
May 20, 2009 - This white paper describes the powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products to produce a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations.
Integrating HP Data Protector Software with HP Data Deduplication Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 2008 - This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs.
Is Your WLAN Helping You Comply with Security Guidelines of the PCI Standard? by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 29, 2008 - This white paper provides an overview of security threats in a wireless LAN (WLAN) environment, many of which go unnoticed. It discusses how HP ProCurve can help you deploy a secure and managed Wi-Fi infrastructure that can defend itself against wireless threats and help you comply with PCI guidelines.
IT modernization: An exercise in alignment by Hewlett-Packard Company
June 18, 2009 - A survey conducted in February 2009 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Oracle and HP, shows that in most companies both the business functions and the IT function understand the potential benefits of modernization. But that does not mean that most companies know how to do it right.
Key Considerations in Building an E-mail Archiving and Compliance Strategy by Hewlett-Packard Company
June 01, 2009 - This paper by The Radicati Group examines the issues caused by exploding e-mail growth and presents key capabilities that e-mail archiving solutions must have to help you improve mailbox and e-mail storage management, e-discovery and data protection.
Key Considerations in Building an E-mail Archiving and Compliance Strategy - Webcast by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 14, 2009 - In this webcast, learn how Brunel University solved their email management challenges of massive email growth, lengthy tape backups and long searches. Discover how to develop an email archiving strategy that automatically captures, preserves and manages all corporate emails for compliance regulations.
Key management strategies for your virtualized environment: Increasing your return on investment (ROI) on virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 01, 2009 - Virtualization helps reduce IT costs and increases business agility. Because of this, virtualization technologies are particularly suited to these economic times. This white paper explores the evolution of virtualization, and then gives practical advice on how virtualization can benefit your organization.
Leveraging SUSE Linux Enterprise and HP Platforms for Business-Critical Workload Deployments by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 23, 2009 - This IDC White Paper takes an in-depth look at the use of Linux as a commercial solution in business-critical environments. It offers a deeper review of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) and HP's portfolio of standards-based server solutions.
Mainstreaming the vSwitch: HP Network Automation Extends Control to Virtual by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - HP recently announced availability of a driver for their long-fielded HP Network Automation product which delivers integrated support of virtual switches (vSwitches) – virtual network elements that exist within VMWare’s ESX virtual server platform.
Mainstreaming the vSwitch: HP Network Automation Extends Control to Virtual Computing Environment by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 01, 2009 - HP recently announced availability of a driver for their long-fielded HP Network Automation product which delivers integrated support of virtual switches (vSwitches) – virtual network elements that exist within VMWare’s ESX virtual server platform.
Managing Requirements, Tests and Defects with HP Quality Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
May 2007 - HP TestDirector for Quality Center software drives a more effective and efficient global application testing process and supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams.
Matching Server Virtualization with Advanced Storage Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 20, 2009 - The white paper explains the benefits of matching server virtualization with advanced storage virtualization using HP LeftHand SAN and VMware Infrastructure.
Modernizing Your Legacy AS/400 applications by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 16, 2008 - With recent AS/400 announcements, companies operating on the AS/400 today have a decision to make—rehost, rewrite, or replace. The key thing to remember when migrating your AS/400 application infrastructure is that it is all about delivering the intended business outcome— generating new services to win new customers.
Optimizing Business Service Management (BSM) in a Challenging Global Economy: Delivering Service Quality While Improving IT Efficiency by Hewlett-Packard Company
May 25, 2009 - This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures.
Optimizing Business System Management in a Challenging Global Economy: Delivering Service Quality While Improving IT Efficiency by Hewlett-Packard Company
May 15, 2009 - This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures.
Optimizing the Application Testing of Your Siebel CRM Environment by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 2008 - This paper is based on a SearchSoftwareQuality.com presentation, “Optimizing the Application Testing of Your Siebel CRM Environment,” sponsored by HP and Infosys.
Optimizing The Value of Your Subscriber Data by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - Mobile network operators are not exploiting the full value of their most valuable asset—their subscriber information. While mobile network operators may be sitting on a gold mine of subscriber data, they do not have the tools they need to exploit it. This paper explains the avenues available to take advantage of their subscriber information.
Performance Center of Excellence by Hewlett-Packard Company
February 27, 2009 - As the application lifecycle evolves, components that drive efficiency and quality become more crucial. Organizations building centers of excellence (CoE) around performance testing find that the CoE centralizes resources and utilizes the full capabilities of today's robust automation products. Read on to learn more about the benefits of CoE.
PODCAST - Virtualization: Growing Your Success in the Data Center to the Desktop by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 27, 2009 - Desktop and server virtualization are not the same. This podcast, featuring virtual desktop experts, Brian Madden and Zeus Kerravala, explains how some methods and tools that work for servers disrupt desktops. Discover how to plan a successful virtual desktop project by addressing customization needs of users and meet your organization's goals.
Podcast: Data Deduplication -- Different Approaches for Different Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 19, 2009 - As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, backup expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. Curtis takes a closer look at the benefits and cost differentiators of moving from tape to disk for data backup.
Preparing for e-discovery - The litigator and the information professional responsibilities by Hewlett-Packard Company
March 06, 2009 - This paper reviews e-discovery scenarios where Legal and IT must be a united front; understanding both sets of requirements and responsibilities, managing the e-discovery process, and action steps for Legal and IT to ensure regulatory compliance and reduced costs and risk of e-discovery.
Presentation Transcript: Best Practices for Backup by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 03, 2009 - In this presentation transcript, Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help build a better backup system.
Presentation Transcript: Virtualization - Growing Your Success in the Data Center to the Desktop by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - Desktop and server virtualization are not the same. This podcast, featuring virtual desktop experts, Brian Madden and Zeus Kerravala, explains how some methods and tools that work for servers disrupt desktops. Discover how to plan a successful virtual desktop project by addressing customization needs of users and meet your organization's goals.
Project Comparisons: AS/400 WebSphere vs. HP/Oracle/INFINITE by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 28, 2009 - Read this paper for a detail comparison of AS/400 WebSphere and HP/Oracle/INFINITE. Points of contrast include initial cost, ease of upgrade, return on investment, duration and intensity of training, and total cost of investment.
Protecting Data on the Edge by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 08, 2009 - According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this videocast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
Quebec City Convention Centre Upgrades to a High Speed, Reliable and Secure Wireless Network by Hewlett-Packard Company
February 12, 2009 - The Quebec City Convention Centre needed to establish a reliable, high-speed and secure wireless network available throughout meeting rooms and public spaces in multiple formats in order to meet the varied needs of Quebec City Convention Centre clients. Read this case study to see how they accomplished this.
Québec City International Modernizes Airport to Draw More Travelers, With Collaboration From Cisco and HP by Hewlett-Packard Company
January 20, 2009 - In January of 2009, Cisco and HP announced Québec City's Jean Lesage International Airport (Aéroport de Québec) has completed the modernization of its airport terminal using solutions from the two companies. This press release details the vital roles these companies played.
Realizing ITIL V3: Top Technologies to Drive Value by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 2008 - Interested in ITIL v3 but not sure how to start? ITIL v3 best practices define how IT can better organize itself to understand and meet business needs, from strategy to operations and ongoing improvement.
Redefining the Application lifecycle: Looking beyond the Application to Align with Business Goals by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 2008 - This paper describes the HP approach and highlights the key opportunities to reduce the risks, costs, and time required to develop, deliver, and maintain high quality applications.
Reduce Costs and Gain Control of Your Virtualized Infrastructure with Consolidated Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 07, 2009 - Join HP and VMware, industry leaders in virtualization and infrastructure and application management for this one hour webinar to learn how you can reduce management costs and gain increased visibility and control of your virtual infrastructure.
Reducing Risk through Requirements-driven Quality Management: An End-to-end Approach by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 23, 2008 - This white paper explains a structured way to manage requirements and how risk-based requirements and quality management are inseparable from the larger process of managing the planning, test and release of a software system.
Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 31, 2009 - This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.
Rethinking Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers by Hewlett-Packard Company
April 02, 2009 - This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-- cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance,
and management-- and illustrate how iSCSI SANs, particularly the HP LeftHand SANs, provide better overall support for virtualized environments.
Rethinking Storage for Server Virtualization Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 17, 2009 - Server virtualisation is an ever more important tool for reducing costs, increasing availability, and enhancing business agility.
Rethinking Storage Virtualization with the HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 20, 2009 - If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.
Rethinking Virtualization Solutions with HP LeftHand P4000 SANs by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 08, 2009 - HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions provide optimized storage for your virtualized server environment, allowing your storage infrastructure to support virtual servers, including support for high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DR) features in virtual environments.
ROI Case Study: Crest Animation by Hewlett-Packard Company
November 23, 2007 - Download this case study and read how Crest Animation eliminated storage bottlenecks, improved productivity, and gained more than $19 Million in benefits with HP StorageWorks Solution.
ROI on Network Efficiency: Customer Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
February 17, 2009 - When the State of Kansas Division of Information Services and Communications mandated that all of its departments find ways to consolidate operations and boost staff productivity, its networking services group was ready for the challenge. Read this case study to see what they did.
Securing Sensitive Information: An Examination of Information Security Issues, Methods and Securing Data With LTO-4 Tape Drive Encryption by Hewlett-Packard Company
July 21, 2009 - Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
Stop Retaining Forever, Start Archiving Now by Hewlett-Packard Company
November 05, 2009 - Learn archiving tips from HP's Manu Chadha that will help you increase application performance and comply with regulatory, governance and e-discovery obligations.
Storage Virtualisation and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array by Hewlett-Packard Company
February 14, 2008 - This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.
Storage Virtualization with the HP StorageWorks by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 01, 2009 - The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.
TCO Analysis for Modernizing an AS/400 Application to HP Integrity by Hewlett-Packard Company
March 25, 2009 - This paper examines the development costs, ongoing staffing costs, and hardware costs associated with modernizing your business-critical AS/400 applications. It will also discuss how the resulting environment can assist organizations to deliver new and competitive business services as well as reduce IT administrative costs.
Test Management Tools and Techniques by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 2008 - This paper explores the challenges and rewards of test management and provides practical ways to help you implement an organized and structured testing process. It also discusses the benefits of HP Quality Center software.
The Business Value of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on HP ProLiant x86 Servers vs. Sun Solaris 10 on Sun Servers by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 01, 2009 - Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results.
The CIO's Guide to IT Cost Optimization During the Recession by Hewlett-Packard Company
June 18, 2009 - In today's dynamic economy it is important for CIOs to be thinking about how to strengthen their organization and position themselves for success for a future economic upturn and growth. Read this guide to learn how a company can make changes to IT that generate real business value.
The Evolving Role of Disk and Tape in the Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
June 01, 2009 - This whitepaper describes five best practices for backup and long-term data protection and explores the aspects of disk and tape solutions that, when combined into a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution, provide the most robust answer to backup and archival for the data center.
The Forrester Wave: Requirements Management, Q2 2008 by Hewlett-Packard Company
March 04, 2009 - In Forrester's 79-criteria evaluation of requirements management tools vendors, five standalone requirements management tools and four application life-cycle management (ALM) solutions that include requirements management capabilities went head-to-head. Read this research paper to see how each one fared.
The HP Applications Modernization Transformation Experience Workshop by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 01, 2009 - Organizations are realizing their priorities are not about new technology –instead, they are focusing on how to use the technology they have to survive and thrive in the downturn. How can you make the most of your information technology investments in this new environment?
The Power of Automation: The EDS Story by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 17, 2009 - It is becoming increasingly difficult for data center pros to manage their IT environments. This webcast explores best practices for automation and details the benefits you can realize from implementing the technology.
The Right Way to WiFi: An HP-designed Cisco Wireless Mesh Network Shows Municipal Wireless Can Work by Hewlett-Packard Company
January 17, 2008 - The City of Moncton, New Brunswick, found a cost-effective way to offer free municipal WiFi, demonstrating its commitment to attracting young residents and high-tech businesses.
Turning Virtual Sprawl Into a Good Thing by Hewlett-Packard Company
December 10, 2009 - Watch this webcast to learn how discovery and dependency mapping (DDM) tools can help organizations overcome the challenges of virtual sprawl. Learn how you can leverage this mapping tool for effective infrastructure management without increasing costs and risk.
Understanding the HP Data Deduplication Strategy: Why one size doesn't fit everyone by Hewlett-Packard Company
May 01, 2009 - This whitepaper explains how HP deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, when to choose a particular type, and the type of low-bandwidth replication models HP plans to support.
Unified Communications: Overview & Comparison by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 29, 2008 - This report was written to help organizations decide which Unified Communications solutions to implement while in the planning phase. Hewlett-Packard delivers full integration services and additional equipment such as smartphones and notebook computers on the Microsoft / Cisco platform.
Unified Communications: Strategic Value, Benefits and the Role of System Integrators by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 29, 2008 - This white paper shows how current economic and technological trends increase the importance of efficient communication and collaboration processes for enterprises. Further, it demonstrates how unified communications (UC) can help companies to address these challenges.
Virtualization For Better, Faster, More Cost-Effective Quality Assurance by Hewlett-Packard Company
April 01, 2008 - Read this white paper to learn how adding Surgient VQMS to HP Quality Center
helps you centrally manage and allocate test lab resources from HP Quality Center across multiple and distributed teams according to business policies and quotas, and more.
Virtualization for Dummies, 2nd HP Special Edition by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 14, 2009 - Read this book for an introduction to the subject so that you can understand its promise and perils — and create an action plan to decide whether virtualization is right for you, as well as how to move forward with implementing it should you decide it is right for you.
Virtualization: Growing Your Success in the Data Center to the Desktop by Hewlett-Packard Company
August 27, 2009 - Desktop and server virtualization are not the same. This webcast, featuring virtual desktop experts, Brian Madden and Zeus Kerravala, explains how some methods and tools that work for servers disrupt desktops. Discover how to plan a successful virtual desktop project by addressing customization needs of users and meet your organization’s goals.
Virtualize Your End-to-End IT infrastructure and Reduce OpEx and CapEx by Hewlett-Packard Company
September 21, 2009 - Many companies that have deployed server virtualization are still struggling with massive data growth, rising storage maintenance cost, and underutilized storage assets from a multitude of vendors. A virtual storage infrastructure from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half.
Why Records Management is important by Hewlett-Packard Company
March 06, 2009 - Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.
Working Smart in IT Operations: The Case for Consolidated Operations by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 01, 2008 - This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach-- consolidated operations-- designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort.
Workload Weighting for Mid-range Storage Array Administrators by Hewlett-Packard Company
February 23, 2009 - This white paper informs readers about the time and cost savings, from a storage administrator's perspective, that can be realized from using StorageWorks EVA as compared to competing solutions from EMC and NetApp.
X-Ray your Legacy Apps by Hewlett-Packard Company
October 01, 2009 - Are your applications bleeding your business dry? Watch this ER video that shows how HP Applications Transformation Services using Visual Intelligence can help you modernize your apps.
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