HP ProLiant Server Booklet

IT Sprawl Has Business At the Breaking Point
Your aging x86 infrastructure costs you more than you know.
Business Innovation is throttled down to 30%:
The need to rapidly respond to business and customer needs in order to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.
They are expected to improve service levels and make IT more responsive to the needs of the business. Today we
see a long delay to business value.
In addition we see that business agility is constrained. Changes need to be made to address the fact that
companies have too many applications, too much customization, and too much complexity.
Finally , the need to better manage risk and enhance the quality of services to enable business success. To do
this they need to ensure business continuity and protect their resource and data assets against a growing range of
security threats. This will not only increase quality of service but also help companies meet corporate mandates and
government regulations.
To address these challenges, data centers need to make fundamental changes. They need to break down the silos,
automate error prone manual processes and tighten management control. They need to bring together hardware,
software and services to create next-generation data centers that operate more efficiently. There is a better way.
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