HP shows consolidation is the way forward

June 20th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/20/HP-case-study_1.html

The $100 million datacenter consolidation project being undertaken by Hewlett-Packard will help it be more efficient but also informs the consulting advice it gives to client companies.

HP officials updated customers, employees and partners on the progress of its project Tuesday at the HP Technology Forum being held in Las Vegas.

The company is in the second year of a three-year process to consolidate 85 datacenters worldwide in just six — two each in Atlanta, Houston, and Austin, Texas. Three of the six new sites are already up and running and the remaining three should be completed within 60 days, said Randy Mott, executive vice president and chief information officer of HP.

There are a number of companies in the city that are going through data center migration projects, or consolidating their data centers to newer sites to deal with new business or power and cooling requirements, with this in mind how these businesses migrate their systems, how they consolidate their servers will be done differently what remains key though is:

  • Delivery - delivering what you said you’d deliver
  • Managing perception - ensuring that user perception is maintained
  • Accountability - one person/team/group accountable to deliver and resolve issues
  • Efficiency - long term approach - do we really want to move that Compaq Proliant 5000r to our new data center? Shouldn’t we virtualize it?
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