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BrochureFast-track toadvanced hybridcloudHP Helion CloudSystem

Accelerate your journey tothe cloudWhy choose HP Helion CloudSystem?The industry’s most complete, integrated,and open solution for building andmanaging clouds, HP Helion CloudSystemoffers a fast, simple path to advancedhybrid cloud. Get up and running quickly—installand deploy in hours, create cloudservices in minutes Transition smoothly - managetraditional and new cloud-nativeservices together Make all cloud users moreproductive with a consumer-inspireduser interface and rich API access Gain control of hybrid cloud from asingle platform with the broadestsupport of virtualizationtechnologies and public clouds Grow as you need with a built-inupgrade path from basicinfrastructure cloud services to themost advanced application cloudservicesCustomers are attracted by the promise of the cloud tospeed innovation, increase agility, and reduce costs.But to do that, organizations need help to understandhow to integrate cloud approaches with their existing ITenvironments for the greatest return on theirinvestment. IT organizations are challenged to build acloud that is simple to use and to manage. They areconcerned about making choices now that could lockthem in for the future. And they need proven solutionsthat can deliver business value quickly and can growwith their needs.Ready for the new style of IT?For decades, IT followed a component-focused model, integrating an ever-growingnumber of elements into the data center, including hardware, storage, networking,and applications. This drove down component costs, but put the burden ofintegration on IT. Virtualization improved resource utilization through systemconsolidation and resource pooling, but added to the management complexity.Now, cloud computing has emerged, empowering users with automated self-serviceaccess to a range of services. To fully capitalize on cloud, IT needs to change theway it operates—transitioning to a new model that delivers IT as a service. But howdo you get to this new style of IT, and get there fast? Enter HP HelionCloudSystem—your fast, easy on-ramp to the cloud.HP Helion CloudSystem is the industry’s most complete, integrated, and open cloudsolution that offers enterprises and service providers an easy path to advancedhybrid cloud. Get your cloud up and running quickly with CloudSystem, andsmoothly transition to the new style of IT by building and managing clouds fortraditional and cloud-native workloads.Key to Cloud Success: a smooth evolutionFor many organizations, success of a truly transformative cloud initiative beginswith a smooth integration of existing and new technology investments, andcontinues along an evolutionary path. Good news for you: HP Helion CloudSystemexcels as a facilitator of cloud evolution. With CloudSystem, you can leverage yourexisting infrastructure and hypervisor assets and manage traditional applications ascloud services, while also supporting new cloud-native workloads, and the newdevelopment and delivery methods associated with them. For example, existingCloudSystem customers can enjoy full investment protection while introducingpowerful new OpenStack -based capabilities. CloudSystem enables your transition to cloud from previously virtualizednon-cloud environments, or to start your journey from scratch with a newcloud environment.

Brochure HP CloudSystem HP—the cloud leader“HP leads the pack”HP was recognized as the “sole privatecloud leader,” whose “combined solutionscored highest in the evaluation for itscurrent offering” in Forrester Research,Inc.’s, “The Forrester Wave :Private Cloud Solutions, Q4 2013.”“The overall leader”HP was identified as the leader in anassessment of 11 vendors in the “OvumDecision Matrix: Selecting a Virtualizationand Cloud Management Solution, 2013–14.”Enterprise-grade OpenStack technologyHP has invested heavily in OpenStackcloud management platform, building theentire HP Helion Cloud product portfolioon an OpenStack technology foundation.CloudSystem includes numerousOpenStack components, including Nova,Cinder, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, andHorizon. With CloudSystem, you’ll benefitfrom consistent, open applicationprogramming interfaces (APIs) for hybridcloud for integration and portability;flexible, plug-in technology to acceleratetime-to-market; a dynamic communityand ecosystem; and attractive economiesof scale.Protect your investments with support for the vast majority ofinfrastructure hardware and operations management tools currently usedby enterprises worldwide.CloudSystem supports a wide range of operating systems andvirtualization technologies, including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and RedHat KVM.Built on OpenStack technology, CloudSystem also enables ‘cloud-native’applications to access and manipulate cloud resources directly viaOpenStack programming interfacesOnce your cloud is up and running, your use of it will grow and change, and you’llneed a platform that can continue to meet your needs. You may begin with a focuson development and testing use cases, and add production service deploymentsover time. Simple infrastructure services may evolve into more complex,orchestrated services. Your catalog may grow to support platform and advancedsoftware service delivery, you’ll add tenants, and replace siloed private and publicclouds with a well governed and elastic hybrid cloud. At each step along the way,you’ll place extraordinary new demands on your cloud -- and you’ll be glad youchose HP Helion CloudSystem, the one cloud platform that supports you, end-toend, through your entire cloud journey.Fast and easy on ramp to cloudWhy struggle with complicated alternatives when HP Helion CloudSystem makescloud so simple? Accelerate your time to value with a solution that is easy to installand easy to use.For a brand new cloud environment, choose a fully integrated HP HelionCloudSystem solution, delivered on ready-to-use, workload optimized HPConvergedSystem infrastructure. These solutions leverage unique capabilities ofHP’s ConvergedSystem choices – depending on your cloud workload needs, you canbuild your cloud on HP’s intelligent compute and SAN offering or on a hyperconverged platform with compute and local storage. You’ll be up and running in notime with powerful cloud technology that is simple to buy, manage, and support.Alternatively, you can upgrade your existing virtual environments to cloud in justhours with the addition of HP Helion CloudSystem software. Packaged as virtualappliances, CloudSystem software is supported on HP and third-party hardware, isquick to install, and easy to maintain.Blending the familiar with the new, Helion CloudSystem makes the power of cloudmore accessible than ever. That means that you’ll be putting less energy into, andgetting more productivity out of your cloud. Cloud administrators are immediatelyat ease with an operations console that echoes the HP OneView infrastructuremanagement experience. Graphical service topology and workflow tools addressfast and efficiently the most sophisticated service design challenges. A fullcomplement of advanced command line and application programming interfacesensure that systems administrators and developers can also consume services ontheir own terms. And a consumer-inspired marketplace portal elegantly satisfiesthe needs of line-of-business service consumers.Sophisticated cloud management platform with governanceHP’s flagship offering for building and managing clouds, HP Helion CloudSystem isan unrivaled cloud management solution. Ranked number one for private cloud,CloudSystem is currently used by thousands of enterprises and service providersworldwide. It’s all about the technology, and CloudSystem is packed.CloudSystem includes a choice of infrastructure providers – you can provision to theembedded OpenStack pools, existing CloudSystem resource pools or both andmanage your cloud environment with the advanced capabilities including:

Brochure HP CloudSystem Sophisticated, multi-tiered service creation with a drag-and-drop designerLeverage a powerful workflow engine to customize service deploymentand configuration, integrate with other systems, or perform lifecyclemanagement operationsPublish, consume, and manage services through a modern, easy-to-usemarketplace portalTap into external cloud resources to support uneven or unexpecteddemand. Your hybrid cloud environment can include HP Public Cloud,Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, HP CloudAgile bursting partners,and even other CloudSystem clouds that you own and operate.Ensure governance with control over service component placement, cloud servicesapproval processes, the right level of security and access control, and much more.Cloud experts you can rely onHP provides a wide range of HP Cloud Professional Services to help you implement theCloudSystem offering—allowing your organization to move to the cloud quickly and leveragethe benefits of the cloud effectively. These experts can advise, transform, and manage yourcloud journey and investments. With an end-to-end lifecycle approach, we can work togetherto address your needs in the areas of people, process, and technology. Start with the HP Converged Cloud Workshop to understand opportunities and risks ofcloud to accelerate business outcomes. Accelerate your cloud initiatives with advice and practical experience Build confidencein an implementation driven by standard practices, tooling, processes, and frameworks. Lower risk of deployments and optimize cost and quality with HP Converged CloudServices. Drive efficient cloud operations with proactive monitoring, preventative maintenance,tuning, management, support, and optimization of your hybrid cloud environment usingHP Proactive Care and HP Datacenter Care. Customize your IT lifecycle management, from acquisition of new IT, management ofexisting assets, and removal of unneeded equipment, with HP Financial Services; if youprefer, you can move to the metered, pay-per-use model with HP Flexible CapacityService.Right-start, right-fit offeringsFor a brand new cloud environment, choose a fully integrated HP HelionCloudSystem solution: HP Helion CloudSystem CS700x/700 – HP‘s integrated cloud solution builton HP’s intelligent compute and SAN offeringHP Helion CloudSystem CS200-HC – HP’s integrated cloud solution built onHP’s hyperconverged platform with compute and local storage.Both solutions are offered with your choice of HP Helion cloud software. If yourorganization is just starting the journey to cloud, you can begin by deploying aplatform that supports basic cloud infrastructure services—such as the easy-todeploy HP Helion CloudSystem Foundation. With CloudSystem Foundation, youbenefit from: The ability to deploy simple infrastructure services within minutes,powered by OpenStack technology Open APIs for both administrative and cloud service functions, includingOpenStack APIs, enabling highly automated cloud delivery Fast and easy installation via software appliance delivery model Simple administration aligned with the HP OneView console Ability to seamlessly upgrade to HP Helion CloudSystem Enterprise