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Get the IT resources you need, when you need them CloudSystem Bursting Services from HP and Realize the true value of the cloud with instant access to external resources to seamlessly support high demand and variable workloads. Most trusted infrastructure Today, all five Gartner Magic Quadrant Leaders rely on purpose-built HP solutions for their cloud or managed hosting infrastructure. Automation at its best Delivering complete automation in your production environment, bestof-breed Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings are optimized to run on an integrated HP CloudSystem that includes: • HP ProLiant servers – Market-leading industrystandard servers • HP Orchestration software – Able to automate all tasks • HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage – Purpose-built storage for the cloud • Hypervisor – Industry-leading virtualization platform for building cloud-based infrastructures .
How elastic is your private cloud? When you began your cloud journey, you carefully configured your cloud environment to address your capacity plan requirements. However, cloud can do much more than handle peak and variable workloads. To get the true value of the cloud, you need to support the increased and unexpected demands on your business. With bursting you can extend your reach beyond the confines of your private cloud environment to meet these demands.
Bursting basics Simply put, “bursting” with HP CloudSystem to is a new way to build business services in a hybrid cloud— where a single service is deployed across multiple clouds, either onsite or offsite, public or private. With bursting, you can: • Leverage elastic capacity to help contain costs, particularly when demand fluctuates, such as at tax time and the holidays. Rather than purchase incremental infrastructure to meet peak demands—leaving the resources underutilized for the remainder of the year— you can use bursting resources, instead.
The trick is doing it seamlessly, securely, and cost efficiently. And can help.
• Extend your geographic reach into locations where you lack a data center presence; you can “go global” by leveraging cloud resources located strategically around the world.
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• Gain access to specialized resources such as a cloud that meets specific compliance criteria, or a cloud specializing in performing load testing and simulations.
While gaining access to resources in a public cloud is as easy as ordering services and paying with your credit card, that method can leave your organization at serious risk of security breaches. It can also create a management nightmare—with each cloud having its own user interface, service catalog, and toolset. When you work with , you benefit from a seamless experience that’s simple, secure, and cost-effective. Leveraging the power of HP CloudSystem, this highly efficient process is called “bursting,” and it enables your organization to instantly access resources in public clouds to support highdemand workloads. With HP and , you receive the flexibility, security, and control of a private infrastructure, coupled with the self-service, automation, and consume-what-you-use elasticity of the cloud.
• Use bursting to test the ability to procure compute and IaaS rather than building and managing it yourself. Regardless of the business driver or use case, can serve as the “burst” destination for those workloads. environment will be completely integrated into your CloudSystem Service Catalog, and available on-demand with a pay-as-you-go model. This way, additional resources are released when you no longer need them.
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Even better, public cloud bursting using HP CloudSystem allows you to securely access and manage service delivery across multiple clouds from a single, integrated point of control. This means you benefit from: • One unified cloud environment • One user interface to access any cloud • One service catalog for all services across all clouds • One management toolset
Trusted, purpose-built solutions for the cloud Choosing a cloud service provider is an important decision. Security, quality of service, agility, and service level agreements are undoubtedly some of your requirements. For service providers, choosing the right infrastructure to deliver fast and reliable services is an equally critical decision. That’s why teams with HP as a CloudAgile Partner—and chooses purpose-built HP CloudSystem to provide bursting solutions to customers.
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Open, integrated platform for bursting Designed from the ground up to support cloud-based operations, HP CloudSystem is a complete, integrated, open platform for building and managing cloud services.
As part of the HP Converged Cloud architecture, CloudSystem provides a simplified, integrated platform that is easy to manage and provides flexibility and portability between private, public, and managed clouds—creating a true hybrid cloud environment. CloudSystem means: • Complete service lifecycle management, from provisioning to monitoring to retirement • Intelligent automation, from application to infrastructure • Support for multi-hypervisor, multi-OS, and heterogeneous infrastructures—including kernel-based virtual machines • Pre-packaged service design tools, i.e., HP Cloud Maps • Out-of-the-box bursting capabilities
Working together for you Through our strategic HP CloudAgile partnership, HP and share product roadmaps, jointly plan solutions, and collaborate on a technical level. The results of our efforts are more streamlined and integrated offerings—and that translates to lower risk and greater cost-savings for you. Together, HP and can help you tap into cloud bursting’s potential for business growth and opportunity by delivering a hybrid service delivery model that flexes to align with your changing business needs.
Learn more at: hp.com/go/CloudAgile/program hp.com/go/cloud
Based on proven, market-leading HP Converged Infrastructure and Cloud Service Automation, HP CloudSystem integrates servers, storage, networking, security, and management to automate the infrastructureto-application lifecycle for hybrid service delivery management. The result is a complete cloud solution enabling to deliver the bursting resources you need, when you need them.
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