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When responding to mobile workforce IT challenges are your solutions just temporary fixes?

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Lisa Wolfe - HP
Posted by Lisa Wolfe
HP, WW SMB Marketing
& Strategy Leader


There are so many challenges to address with a growing mobile workforce and small and midsize businesses with few IT staff are faced with addressing these challenges as “incoming” – one offs – one at a time requests. It’s like trying to plug the hole in the dyke to prevent a flood just as the water shifts to the next available outlet – another challenge, another leak, another temporary solution.

As a first step clarify your mobile IT strategy

Have you taken the time to think through your end-to-end mobile strategy and how to shore up your existing IT (servers, storage and networking) to support a growing mobile workforce? The sheer explosion of “human information” (audio, video, text generated by your employees) coming into the business as “unstructured data” and the wireless bandwidth support requirements for rich media and streaming video with wired speeds are issues that need to be addressed. OK … These are the easy issues to manage and HP has solutions for you here – by increasing the storage capacity of our X5000 storage solution and offering an 802.11n module for our MSR router series we have the means to help you address both the explosion of unstructured data and the wireless bandwidth requirements.

But what about having confidential company data sitting on employee devices that are neither password protected or rarely get backed up? Even as an IT manager, how often do you back up your personal mobile device – the one you also use for work? As an IT manager of a small or midsize business you are no doubt faced with the sheer volume of your growing mobile workforce and how you will ensure private company data does not end up on the various personal devices your employees are using for work?

Your company might be implementing a cloud service and these are accessible anytime, anywhere, from any device – but what about those core on-premise applications you also want to make available?

Placing the emphasis on permanent IT solutions

Ready to take eliminate the temporary fixes: HP Client Virtualization SMB with VMware View – this solution enables your mobile employees to access your business critical applications from their mobile device, securely and no company data ends up on the device. Further if your employees switch between a smart phone, tablet or notebook to access business apps running on the server in your business – they get their same profile. This solution is designed on the HP ProLiant DL380p Gen 8 server to support a range of workloads. To support your move to HP Client Virtualization SMB with VMware View HP is also offering a Client Virtualization Analysis and Modeling service so you have the data you need to determine which applications are ideal to virtualize based on modeling individual desktop application use.

For more information on HP Client Virtualization click here.

World Record Two Socket VMmark Results Just Announced – Driving More Customer Value

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Paul Jones
Posted by Paul Jones
HP WW Business Partner
Manager, VMware

On May 15th, HP posted new VMmark 2.0 results based on our ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server. These results represent the best two socket performance we’ve ever seen. In fact, just 2 weeks earlier we posted two socket results for our Gen8 DL380p server which eclipsed the previous record. Now with the latest posting we have taken another step forward, providing evidence that Moore’s Law is still in play.

Everyone knows that benchmarking is a leap-frog business and the next results are probably not far away. In the race to drive virtualization performance to record highs, it is easy to overlook the real reason we continue to innovate and to wring every cycle of capability out of the server infrastructure.  Performance ultimately enables real customer value. Performance really does matter to our customers, though they may not think of it in terms of VMmark scores or tiles.

Performance matters because it is one of the key factors in driving up VM density. VM density is closely linked to efficiency in the data center and efficiency is a big deal for IT and Business.  Fewer hosts, higher consolidation ratios means better use of floor space, less power, less cooling – overall more intelligent use of facilities – very green.  While VM density is driven by many factors, including storage performance and latency – see HP’s Get Virtual program with 3PAR website for additional tools – the ability to host more virtual machines in your infrastructure starts with server performance.

You can see in the posting notices below from the VMmark website, HP ProLiant Gen8 servers are once again leading the pack in virtualization performance, but it doesn’t stop there.

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When we created ProLiant Gen8 we went back to the drawing board, questioning every assumption about how our servers are used in real world environments. And the result of all that work is a set of revolutionary enhancements that make IT infrastructure easier to manage, faster to deploy, and less expensive to own. Features like our Integrated Lifecycle Automation, which eliminates labor intensive tasks, to Dynamic Workload Acceleration that amps up VMware performance to Automated Energy Optimization for maximizing the efficient use of power, cooling and floor space – all contribute to a better customer experience and the ability to ‘sanely’ host more VMs.

So, we are excited about the VMmark results and how customers can realize the benefits of continuing gains in performance – and especially anxious to demonstrate some of the cool new capabilities mentioned above to make their lives easier.

VMware at HP Discover – Booth Theater Schedule

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Posted by Frances Fortanely
Americas HP Alliance
Marketing

Join your colleagues at the VMware booth #406 at HP Discover in Las Vegas on June 4th – 7th, to listen and learn how VMware and HP are working together to accelerate your pathway to cloud computing and better business results. VMware experts will be on hand throughout the week to present a variety of topics beneficial to companies of all sizes. Check out the schedule below!

Also, have a look at the VMware speaking session schedule that was mentioned in a previous blog post. If you attend at least three sessions, you will be entered to win an iPad. Visit the VMware booth for more details.

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Be Sure to Visit VMware at HP Discover!

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Posted by Jay Workman
HP Alliance Marketing
Director

HP Discover 2012 is just around the corner and as a major sponsor, VMware, will be showcasing our breath of solutions with HP. Las Vegas the week of June 4th will definitely be the place to be if you want to learn how virtualization and cloud computing solutions from VMware running on HP Converged Infrastructure can take your business to the next level.

Make plans to visit the VMware booth (#406) to learn how you can securely manage your cloud, virtualize your business critical applications, enable secure access for remote workers from virtually any device, save ongoing OpEx with Hybrid Clouds and much more! You’ll also be able to sit in on various booth theater presentations and we’ll have VMware experts on-hand to answer your questions about our joint solutions with HP! Sit in on any three of the VMware business or technical sessions listed below and you’ll be entered into a drawing for one of three new Apple iPad’s to be given away at the show. Details are in your conference attendee bag or available at the VMware booth!

VMware Sessions:

Session ID

Title

Day

Time

PSS3302

Cloud Infrastructure, applications, and users: How VMware brings it all together

Tuesday

1:30 PM

BB3303

Haven't virtualized critical applications?  Don't be passed by competitors

Tuesday

2:45 PM

TB2270

A hardened cloud infrastructure with VMware

Tuesday

4:00 PM

BB3304

Security, productivity and compliance in a BYOD World

Tuesday

4:00 PM

TB2755

Implementing a vSphere Metro Storage Cluster with the HP LeftHand

Tuesday

4:00 PM

BB3305

Lowering your costs again – with a Hybrid Cloud

Wednesday

1:30 PM

TB3258

The benefits and right practices of using 10Gb Ethernet with VMware vSphere 5.0

Wednesday

2:45 PM

TB2944

HP and VMware: building the cloud

Wednesday

2:45 PM

TB2756

Simplicity of an automated recovery plan with 3PAR and VMware SRM

Wednesday

4:00 PM

TB2941

Accelerating vMotion with the HP FlexFabric

Wednesday

5:15 PM

TB2102

HP and VMware: fast path to virtualization value and foundation for cloud

Wednesday

5:15 PM

BB2966

Why VMware choose HP ALM to manage its next-generation product lifecycles

Thursday

10:00 AM

BB2420  

VMware’s perspective on reducing lifecycle costs  with HP VirtualSystem for VMware

Thursday

2:45 PM

Follow @VMwareEvents on Twitter to receive news and information live from the show floor. We look forward to seeing you at HP Discover 2012 in June!

Increase your VM density with HP 3PAR

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Calvin
Posted by Calvin Zito
Social Media Strategist,
HP Storage
Vexpert

We all know about all the great benefits provided by VMware server virtualization. Most people who have implemented vSphere know about some of the storage challenges that you really have to pay attention to when architecting your infrastructure. 

Challenges, we don’t need no stinkin’ challenges!

Eric Siebert, my fellow vExpert at HP, joined me for a podcast to talk about some of those challenges and the technology in HP 3PAR Utility Storage that not only makes it ideal for VMware environments but how HP is able to offer our Get Virtual Guarantee. This is a new program that guarantees customers moving to HP 3PAR from legacy storage will double their VM density. Eric and I also talk about what that means. Here’s a YouTube version of the podcast I did with Eric:

You can download this podcast by doing a right-click and "Save as" here. You can find all of my podcasts at http://bit.ly/ATSB-podcasts OR you can download all of my podcasts from iTunes by clicking here – it will open iTunes and allow you to download all of my recent podcasts. If you have any issues with this second link, paste this into your browser: itpc://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss69339.xml. "itpc" is a special format that opens iTunes and lets you download the podcasts from iTunes.

Want to learn more?

I sure hope so – I’ve known about this program for a few months and have been excited to start talking about it. Here are several resources to learn more:

HP VirtualSystem and VMware View deliver secure mobile productivity in a rapidly changing world

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Karen -HP
Posted by Karen Brown
Marketing Manager,
HP Client Virtualization

An increasingly global and mobile workforce is changing the demands on IT to support the business. Younger workers are also changing expectations on how IT delivers data and applications.

In the old world, Windows applications, data and user persona were tethered to the desktop; however, managing these for a distributed workforce with multiple computing devices is increasingly challenging.  In the new world with collaboration like eLearning, remote applications, and unified communications (i.e. instant messaging and video conferencing), the new end-user environment is transforming how users work. 

Security breaches are a major concern, no matter what kind of end-point device is used.  Even in 2010, the Ponemon Institute (in an Intel commissioned study) reported $6.4 million average annual cost for lost business laptops.  Imagine with the rapid growth in the number of smart phones and tablets sold, how that number will grow.

Many companies are exploring Bring Your Own Device (or BYOD) strategies to lower their desktop costs and increase employee productivity.  While this may lower costs to purchase desktops and laptops, the challenges of securely managing these multi-OS devices require a new model that works for both the end user and IT.

The bottom line is that IT needs to embrace desktop transformation to enable workers to access their data on many different devices, anywhere and anytime while protecting their information in the datacenter, not on the device. With solutions from HP and VMware, if a user’s Smartphone, tablet, or laptop is lost or stolen, no company information is exposed. 

Rather than try to meet the needs of this new business paradigm with an old computing model, many companies have found a much simpler, more flexible and secure solution: virtualize the desktop with VMware vSphere and View.  HP and VMware make this important move to client virtualization safe and easy by delivering tested solutions sized for specific workloads. 

HP’s client virtualization solutions with VMware View offer a secure end-to-end solution from end point device to back-end datacenter infrastructure.

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Want a turnkey solution to save you time with assessment, design, ordering, configuring, installing, and optimizing?  The HP VirtualSystem CV2 with VMware View solution is delivered pre-tested, pre-configured using HP Factory Express, and ready to install onsite with HP Start Up services. 

Worried about managing your client virtualization solution?  HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter is an integrated management solution that proactively manages changes with detailed insight into the relationship between your physical and virtual infrastructure.

HP and VMware understand all of the steps required to get to desktop transformation.  Let us sit down with you to fully understand your goals and objectives; assess your workforce environment; and build an ROI/TCO model to justify your project.  Since we design all the components for the solution, we are able to better integrate storage, networking, and compute to handle your workload. Interested in more information?  Check out our HP VirtualSystem CV2 for VMware View website.  HP VirtualSystem CV2 with VMware View reduces the complexity of deploying client virtualization.

Standardize on a common virtualization platform with VMware View, vSphere and HP industry-standard components and get from concept to production to value faster than ever before.

Want to create your own client virtualization architecture?  Visit our website for more information.

HP and VMware: Accelerating Our Customers ROI with the Latest Update to VirtualSystem for VMware

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Brent Allen
Posted by Brent Allen, HP,
PMP Product LIfecycle Marketing
Converged Application Solutions

Today, March 26th, 2012, HP and VMware announced the latest updates to the highly popular HP VirtualSystem for VMware. These updates are aimed at further accelerating customers’ ROI through technology, flexibility, and manageability.

HP VirtualSystem for VMware, originally announced in June at HP Discover 2011 (view VMware’s press release here) and launched at the end of August at VMworld 2011 (view launch interviews here or here), is a portfolio of specifically architected and optimized virtualized data center building blocks. These solutions combine HP Converged Infrastructure (made up of servers, storage, networking, intelligent rack and power, and management) with VMware virtualization technologies in optimized blocks that are delivered as turnkey solutions through HP’s Factory Express. These blocks come in three architectures, each designed for specific virtualization requirements: VS1, VS2 and VS3.

With today’s announcement, I’m very happy to report that HP VirtualSystem VS3 for VMware will now include configuration options for HP 3PAR P10000 (V-class) storage. Now, the world’s most powerful virtualized array is also part of the world’s most powerful virtualized solution block! Over the past several months, I have been asked why this wasn’t included in our initial release. The honest answer is the engineering work that developed the original VS3 took place before the P10000 was completed. The original VS3 architecture was largely based on the 3cV reference architectures that had been successful with many of our customers. So, we needed to take some time to develop the right architecture for the 3PAR V-class. Without a doubt, the addition of the HP P10000 3PAR Storage System to VS3 builds on and advances our VirtualSystem technology and architectural leadership through even more advanced 3PAR clustering, efficiency and autonomic management. The direction with VS3 has always been to help customers more confidently consolidate the toughest Tier I applications and the P10000 has been designed with the same thought in mind – so, it is just a natural fit in the portfolio.  

  Datacenter
It may seem like a small update, but HP VirtualSystem VS1 for VMware customers will see new “midline” configurations that offer additional server and storage flexibility for more granular mapping to individual workload requirements. Realistically, this is huge for us, because this means that we can respond in a more flexible manner to our customers’ needs and budgets. Further, with new additions to the power and networking infrastructure, it is easier than ever for customers to add server and storage nodes to expand systems as they grow.

Additionally, the entire lineup received a management update with the new HP Insight Control V 7.0 management suite and an updated extension for VMware vCenter. This converged management solution drives even more management oversight and control across VirtualSystem into VMware vCenter, helping to simplify the lives of administrators by providing a single pane of glass from which to reduce downtime and identify issues before they occur.     

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From a simplified overview screen, administrators get status information from all of their HP subsystems with the ability to dive into anyone of them for more information and control. They also have newsfeeds with information about the latest actions and events in the system and easy access into iLO, Onboard Administrator, VirtualConnect and storage management. All of this amounts to simplified administration and tremendous time savings.

Finally, HP VirtualSystem for VMware has updated to the new intelligent i-Series 42U racks. These new racks offer innovative intelligence capabilities for asset management, unparalleled structural integrity, cooling and cable management advances. They are the first rack family to offer location discovery intelligence for advanced asset management. This new capability integrates with HP Lights-Out Management (iLO) and HP Intelligent Power Distribution Units (iPDU) to communicate to the datacenter manager the U space, row, and rack location of each system. 

So, in the end, we have many small updates across the board that are coming together to provide a lot of value for our customers.

For more information on HP VirtualSystem for VMware, go to www.hp.com/go/vsforvmware

VMware, HP and Intel Webcast: Your SAP Landscape, Virtualized

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Posted by Jay Workman
Director, HP Alliance
Marketing

VMware and HP Drive Virtualized SAP Landscapes into the Mainstream

With VMware and HP virtualization solutions, your SAP solutions-based development, test, training, and production landscapes can cost less and be more productive than within a purely physical infrastructure. From server consolidation and containment to business process and data center automation, the full range of virtualization benefits can be applied to all sizes of SAP deployments. 

Learn more by registering to attend the Webcast Your SAP Landscape, Virtualized, on January 31 at 8:00 a.m. PST, 11:00 a.m. EST, to understand the benefits of implementing a cost-effective, available, scalable, and secure virtualization platform for your SAP software landscape with HP ProLiant servers based on Intel® Xeon® processors and running VMware vSphere 5.

By attending this Webcast you'll learn:

  • How an effective virtualization strategy provides a future-ready scalable landscape
  • How to meet and exceed your SAP software landscape performance service-level agreements with virtualization
  • How to lower your total cost of ownership while increasing availability, scalability, and security
  • How virtualizing SAP software adds little, if any, performance overhead

Experts from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and SAP will discuss SAP's recent announcement about virtualization as well as studies outlining the benefits of virtualizing your SAP software landscape. Register today!

Webcast Sponsored by: Vmware-logo HP Intel

Think Virtualization Is Too Much for Your SMB? Think Again…

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Frances
Posted by Frances Fortanely
Americas HP Alliance Marketing

Virtually There is a new learning environment designed to help Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs) leverage the power of virtualization for competitive advantage. Created jointly by HP and VMware, the site features a host of valuable tools—from white papers and solution briefs to an ROI calculator and self assessment—that enable SMBs to evaluate how to implement virtualization at a low cost.

SMBs that think virtualization may be too much will be particularly interested in registering for three on-demand webinars:

This final webinar was recorded live, in front of an SMB audience, in Austin.

Review the data sheets showcasing SMB solutions from HP and VMware. Enter information into the ROI calculator to determine your potential savings from server consolidation using VMware vSphere®.  Answer a brief questionnaire and receive a smart paper that consolidates multiple sources of information into an executive summary based on your input.

Affordable, enterprise-level virtualization solutions are available for your SMB. Visit Virtually There to learn more.

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VMware and HP: Collaborating on Cloud Protection Solutions for Integrated Security and Compliance

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Posted by Frank Pfaffernoschke
HP, Sr. Strategic Alliance Manager

Security and compliance continue to be hot topics as organizations embark on their journey to the cloud. Customers today require an integrated framework for comprehensive protection that is cost effective, simple and adaptive.

As VMware helps businesses of all sizes migrate to secure cloud computing and enable them to trust in their cloud, we are pleased to announce that we have expanded our secure cloud offerings with HP through its newly launched Cloud Protection Program (PDF) to address customer requirements around cloud protection and compliance.

We are excited to work with HP to empower our customers to mitigate threats described by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and other cloud threat analysis documents.

As a part of this collaboration, below is an overview of our efforts:

  • The initial release of HP’s Cloud Protection Foundation Service (page 2 of PDF) is based on VMware cloud infrastructure, which includes VMware vShield™, VMware vSphere™, and VMware vCloud Director®.
  • VMware technology is aligned with the HP Cloud Protection Reference Architecture (page 3 of PDF), which provides an organized approach to facilitate discussion and planning to build a customized and compliant, secure enterprise hybrid cloud environment for VMware based infrastructures. 
  • Additionally, VMware is working closely with HP on joint testing, integration and architectural design, furthering cloud security research and solution development.

By extending our relationship with HP, we hope to deliver a blueprint for organizations of all sizes to follow in their journey to secure cloud computing.