HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced three new offerings to help businesses and telecommunication service providers realize the benefits of cloud computing faster while optimizing costs and mitigating the risk of adoption.
“CIOs understand the potential business benefits of cloud computing but are challenged with how best to manage the risks associated with adoption”
Research conducted on behalf of HP shows that more than 90 percent of senior business decision makers believe business cycles will continue to be unpredictable in the next few years. As a result, 75 percent of the surveyed chief information officers (CIOs) acknowledge the need to invest in more flexible technology, be able to scale it up and down rapidly, and communicate faster with technology partners.
HP is addressing this need with a new set of offerings that enable businesses and service providers to lower barriers and accelerate the time to benefit of cloud computing adoption with the following key advantages:
Elasticity – rapidly respond to changing business needs with seamless and automated provisioning of cloud and physical services;
Cost control – optimize and gain predictability of costs by ensuring that cloud compute resources are “right sized” to support fluctuating business demands; and
Risk mitigation – Reduce manual errors, non-compliance and business downtime through automated service provisioning.
With its new offerings, HP will:
Help businesses govern and manage cloud services using HP Operations Orchestration and HP Cloud Assure for cost control; and Enable providers to deliver cloud services with HP Communications as a Service.
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