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PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb 24, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — HP today introduced a range of services for small- to midsize data center operations that help improve efficiency, increase the flexibility of IT budgets and ensure service-level commitments.

With this portfolio of services from HP, owners of small- to midsize data centers can maximize business return on existing assets and drive rapid change with current staff resources. These services simplify management of multivendor environments, enabling clients to take advantage of innovative service-delivery models such as virtualization and cloud computing.

HP also introduced flexible procurement options for custom technology services that benefit clients and the reseller channel.

“Data center teams are challenged with managing increasing complexity and sprawl, especially as they implement virtualization across multiple vendor platforms and operating systems,” said Ron Silliman, principal research analyst, Gartner, Inc. “For businesses with small- to midsize data centers with economy-impacted budgets and limited staff, these challenges are amplified. Organizations should take a whole-environment approach to operational efficiency to reduce risk and drive better business outcomes.”

The Small and Midsize businesses continue to be areas of interest not least because they are less averse to change and are also more willing to think outside the box when it comes to how they provision and deliver their IT services, is it an email server, a spam and SharePoint server they need or is this something that they could buy in?

Anything the vendors can do to make the technology and the services more accessible has to be good for the industry and the end user community alike. Making the technology more accessible operationally and financially can not only lead to onboarding more users, but create opportunities that were not previously there, so you want an email system, do you need SharePoint, disaster recovery, storage?

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