We recently announced a new suite of HP Software Automation, Orchestration and Cloud Management Software. Now you can automate end-end platform and application delivery. You can also Build, orchestrate and broker cloud services. Now you can learn more about them at HP Discover in Vegas.

We will be offering product breakout tracks by subject matter experts and customer-led solution discussions There will also be round tables and demo theatre sessions filled with cloud-related information.  Keep reading to get a sneak peak at what is in store for you at HP Discover.

Imagine being able to automate your end-to-end platform and application delivery. Or, have the ability to build, orchestrate and broker cloud services. Now you will have the opportunity to see your dreams become reality with  HP Software’s new set of Automation, Orchestration and Cloud Management solutions in action at HP Discover in Vegas.

This set of solutions was designed to support heterogeneity out of the box and attain new levels of IT efficiencies. These solutions offer enterprises:

• Agility in delivering application services and
• Scale by automating end-to-end application delivery as well as 
• Building, orchestrating and brokering hybrid cloud services.

They are integrated, comprehensive offerings that deliver on choice, confidence and consistency for the enterprise-grade cloud service broker.

Read on to find out what is in store for you at HP Discover, including how you can win the new HP Slate7.

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Hear more about the latest extensions made to our current portfolio. Be one of the first to learn how to leverage the cloud, to dramatically improve the speed of delivery to business requests. Increase speed of innovation to your end user, and enable the development of systems that your business wants to use. Meet your obligations today to streamline your cost structure.

With written contribution from Andrew Wahl and Sathya Sastry

HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) has made designing cloud services from scratch a simple and straightforward process; but what happens if your enterprise is running on multiple systems? How can you export and import service designs, so that you can reuse and customize existing designs between different instances? How do we ensure that service designs provided do not remain stagnant over time?

Read on to find out how HP CSA has helped raise the bar in the way service designs are created and used. We will also uncover how service designs with HP CSA continue to grow in value over time.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of blog posts that will look at how cloud administrators can use HP Cloud Service Automation. Follow the series on Grounded In the Cloud.

With written contribution from Andrew Wahl and Sathya Sastry

Why create something from scratch when you can work from a plan that already works? HP Cloud Service Automation features many templates—and more are released monthly—for mounting new types of resource providers of cloud environments. Keep reading to learn how to use them to simplify setup and provisioning of your cloud service.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of blog posts that will look at how cloud administrators can use HP Cloud Service Automation. Follow the series on Grounded In the Cloud.

With written contribution from Andrew Wahl and Sathya Sastry

Inside most large enterprises, IT organizations are responsible for administering multiple types of cloud environments. In some cases the cloud environments are from the same provider, but often they come from multiple sources—keeping track of them all can feel like a pair of shackles.

Luckily, HP Cloud Service Automation organizes all of these resource providers into one system. Now you can  manage and bind them to specific service designs, which can then be presented as part of a service catalog for business users.

Keep reading to find out how you can free your IT staff from the drudgery of maintain Cloud services.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of blog posts that will look at how cloud administrators can use HP Cloud Service Automation. Follow the series on Grounded In the Cloud.

Accelerate your deployment as a cloud service broker with CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Service. It will  be made available starting  April 1, 2013. 

It was designed to set up a solid foundation for customers of HP CloudSystem Matrix. Continue reading to learn how CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Service ensures that your process of delivering cloud services is done right. This is accomplished by starting from the very first step. 

With written contribution from Andrew Wahl and Sathya Sastry

Provisioning cloud services to business users needs to be an efficient, yet still customizable process. The faster that administrators are able to respond to requests—or better yet, proactively satisfy their businesses specific needs for cloud computing resources—the more likely that lines of business will not attempt to work outside of approved Corporate IT policies and engage in “Shadow IT”.

Continue reading to learn how administrators use HP Cloud Service Automation to design cloud services with integrated workflows, and provision cloud services for a wide range of private, managed and public cloud resources.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of blog posts that will look at how cloud administrators can use HP Cloud Service Automation. Follow the series on Grounded In the Cloud.

You were just called into a staff meeting in the morning, where you were told by your CIO that your capital budget has been decidedly halved. Seated in your windowless office cubicle of your data centre, you look at the rows of networking equipment overflowing from their rack space and wonder how you will manage this IT sprawl.

You now have half the budget and yet your data increases daily. Keep reading to see if there is a light at the end of this tunnel.

The ever-increasing pace of technological innovation is disrupting the IT industry today. But, it also brings many opportunities for advances in the IT department. Every day, we see new and innovative solutions emerge in the marketplace. And while these solutions enable customers to be more productive and efficient, there may also be hidden costs associated –unintended results and undesired consequences.

For example, when onboarding new applications and solutions, customers realize that they need to re-tool their environment.  Some times this means retiring an existing tool that the business is familiar with, and is still serving them well. These are added costs and a resistance to change that IT can do without.

Continue reading to learn how HP Continuous Delivery Automation protects your organization from such fail points when onboarding new applications. 

Unlock your potential as a broker of cloud services, for both IT and line of business users. Now you can open doors with the new HP CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Suite, available today 01st March 2013. Leverage the benefits of CloudSystem Matrix, integrated with HP Cloud Service Automation. 

Learn how as a broker of Cloud Services, you can deploy a full range of services models (PaaS/SaaS and IaaS) delivered to IT as well as the line of business teams. Keep reading to find out the best service model for you.

As cloud computing evolves, the integration of cloud services can be too complex for IT to manage across a private and/or hybrid cloud environment.  So what should you do to keep pace and reduce complexity? 

The first step is to learn about the different cloud service models that IT is expected to support, and the scope of work behind each of these cloud service models. Continue reading to find out more about the full range of cloud services you can expect from HP Cloud Service Automation.

Written by: Jonathan Sharp 

This is the second post summarizing the major lessons of the new eBook, “How to Take Advantage of the Cloud: Your Guide to Achieving Value and Performance,” by HP and Latisys. Previously, we addressed “Cloud basics” using the phrase “how to harness the cloud as part of your IT strategy”.

To drill into the detail a little more around the HP announcement event in Singapore Oct 18th, specifically around cloud, you will find new set of services and solutions that empower service providers and enterprises to rapidly deliver cloud services while leveraging existing investments, minimizing risk and lowering costs. 

There are currently 19 HP Cloud Centers of Excellence demonstration sites are hosted by HP Partners in the US, where you can experience a variety of Cloud Computing solutions. Certified and skilled HP partners are at hand to demonstrate cloud solutions, capabilities and functionality. The CCoE sites are based upon the HP CloudSystem integrated platform of building and managing services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments.

This is a summary of a recently posted blogs written by Martin Hingley that you might find an interesting read.

It’s a fact of life: cloud computing is hot. And when it comes to the use of cloud services, businesses

today are outpacing IT. Business users have been quick to recognize the cloud’s advantages in speeding innovation, accelerating business processes, and reducing time to revenue. They’re clamoring for greater cloud access, and in some cases even bypassing IT and signing up for public cloud services like those from Amazon and Microsoft®.

If you are going to HP Discover this year and are interested in new Cloud develops, there will be a lot of interesting things in store for you. On the exhibit floor you will find 9 specific Cloud demos in the Cloud Zone. These demos are made up of where to start your journey to the cloud with CloudStart, (a fully comprehensive, fixed rate, 30 day program to Cloud.)