In HP has announced a full-fledged services play into the burgeoning cloud computing market in India.
Making the announcement, Laxminarayan Rao, National Manager Cloud Consulting Services, HP India, said that because of the multiple ways in which enterprises are embracing cloud, a homogenous control layer is needed to manage the heterogeneity of cloud environments.
Today, companies are considering one or multiple ways of cloud deployment, including private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, managed hosted cloud, etc.
According to Rao, the majority of CIOs are now considering or in the process of deploying cloud computing technologies for their organisations.
Taking its play of the recently announced converged cloud infrastructure further, HP will offer a range of HP Engineering Cloud Transformation Services to enterprises. The services include:
Engineering Cloud Experience Workshop, which is designed to reduce risk and expedite decision making with best practices for product development and engineering transformation programs. Clients can learn how to align corporate IT and engineering teams in an effort to determine critical success factors and define a roadmap aimed at optimizing performance.
Engineering Cloud Rapid Investment Analysis, which will help instil client confidence that a transformation can generate a rapid return on investment. HP will conduct an analysis of a clients current architecture to quickly determine potential benefits of investing in a modernization project.
Engineering Cloud Proof of Concept, which will enable clients to visualize improved efficiencies resulting from the transformation project. Leveraging technology from HP and its partners to create 3-D graphics, clients can experience a virtualized desktop in action using real-world engineering models and applications.
Engineering Cloud Feasibility Analysis, which aim to aid clients in gaining a comprehensive understanding of the benefits, risks and constraints of a successfully executed transformation project using HP analysis of engineering processes, data center facilities, infrastructure, storage and networking.
Engineering Cloud Strategy and Business Case Service, which will help clients to articulate near- and long-term advantages of optimizing existing data centers or creating new ones to complete the transformation project. HP will work with clients to develop a comprehensive business case and project roadmap that aligns IT with organizational goals, and determines overall projected costs.
HP has also announced new Cloud Security Alliance courses to empower IT professionals with in-depth knowledge of cloud security risks, and what it takes to build a secure cloud infrastructure. The HP Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) courses, available at HP locations around the world, include:
CCSK Basic, which is designed to provide students with a clear understanding of key cloud security issues and how to address those concerns; and
CCSK Plus, which offers students valuable hands-on experience implementing secure cloud solutions in a lab environment.
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